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London Global Convention 2012: October 10-12


LONDON GLOBAL CONVENTION - 2012


Visit the convention website here for more information. 


Theme:

Corporate Governance Perspectives and Sustainability Challenges

Objectives:

The Global Summit on Corporate Governance and Sustainability will be a knowledge and capacity building platform and networking opportunity addressing key issues of Corporate Governance and Sustainability challenges:



    • Bring together future thinking professionals and opinion leaders for creating real business values by placing sustainability at the heart of corporate agenda.
    • Provide direction for business to integrate Sustainability issues in business strategy, and for its penetration in their entire value chain.
    • Identify innovative ways to engage internal and external stakeholders.
    • Turn Sustainability into a Competitive Advantage, as a value creation tool.
    • Develop new business models for Sustainable growth.
    • Make the 'Triple Bottom Line' relevant to your organization.

Topics:


1. Vision of Sustainability in 2050:

    • Rejuvenating economy through sustainability.
    • New Era of Sustainable Future - opportunities and challenges.
    • Evolving sustainable competitiveness strategy.
    • Sustainable business and society- An agenda for action.
    • Turning business into a cause.
    • Managing sustainability performance, through the value chain for life cycle management.
    • Corporate dialogue on global commons.

    • Forging strategies to deal with Social and Environmental Sustainability.


    2. Sustainable Business Growth through Green Economy:

      • Green credentials and development agenda for sustainable growth.
      • Setting regulatory standards and ensuring effective enforcement for environmentally sustainable governance.
      • Environmental investment and carbon control - Strategies to prepare for a carbon constrained future.
      • Water management towards zero water strategy.
      • Governance practices and boardroom policies for climate security.
      • Promoting sustainable energy options.
      • Emerging issues and new frontiers in climate change and corporate concerns.

    3. Corporate Governance: A Game Changer of Sustainable Strategies:
      • Corporate Governance at the Crossroads.
      • Rethinking Governance for Sustainability - Towards more effective Board Leadership.
      • Leveraging a high performance Board for Sustainability.
      • Beyond Box-ticking - identifying practices that are fundamental to improved Corporate Governance.
      • Effective OECD and other Corporate Governance codes and practices to drive both profit and sustainability.
      • Principle based Corporate Governance - emerging dimensions.

    4. Stakeholder Buy- in — Unleashing The Power of Engagement:
      • Boards to improve quality of engagement with all stakeholders.
      • Independent Directors in protecting stakeholder interests.
      • Aligning organizational goals with corporate governance policies
      • Fostering and rewarding ethical practices at all levels of the organization.
      • Transparency, resilience and innovation- keys to sustainability
      • Review internal and external stakeholder paradigm, values and engagement practices to build confidence.

    5. Risk Management for Sustainability:
      • Navigating through new risk Landscape.
      • Leveraging reliable practices of Corporate Governance for a fraud free environment.
      • Embedding risk management in the Board's decision-making process.
      • Establishing effective whistle-blower policy, and protecting the whistle-blowers.

    6. Making Corporate Social Responsibility - An Actionable Business Agenda:
      • Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility into the Boardroom responsibility.
      • Factoring Civil Society into Corporate Governance - A Bridge between business and society.
      • Social Innovation - The driver of economic growth.
      • Strategic CSR - Creating shared value.
      • Corporate citizenship and social responsibility - Helping achieve the 'Millennium Development Goals'.

    7. Need of Integrated Sustainability Reporting - A Paradigm Shift :
      • Fostering timely and concise information for decision making and bridging the information divide - Cutting through communication clutter.
      • IFRS and Financial disclosures - Assessing Corporate Performance and profitability.
      • Triple Bottom Line accounting to give realism to pricing natural and social capital for factoring costs in financial statements.
      • Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) - Makes compliance and performance more accountable through non-financial reporting.

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