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ICC launches climate change survey
To ensure the voice of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is heard in the global climate change debate, ICC’s Commission on Environment and Energy is conducting a survey with ICC’s World Chambers Federation (WCF). |
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Award winners prove that fighting poverty is good for business
Ten private companies were recognized today for their work in improving the lives of the world’s most disadvantaged people. From a family-owned soybean business in Ghana, to one of the leading telecommunications companies in the Philippines, these firms prove that making a profit and ‘doing the right thing’ are not mutually exclusive. |
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ICC Secretary General participates at high-level UN events
ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban will join over 100 heads of state, ministers, private sector and civil society leaders in New York this week at the high-level events scheduled for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. |
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ICC hails G8 pledge to halve emissions
ICC welcomed a historic statement by the G8 group of industrial nations today to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and calling on all major economies to commit to meaningful mitigation actions in the international agreement to be negotiated by the end of next year. |
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ICC panel explores trade-climate change links
The most important multilateral negotiations with wide-ranging impact on the world economy are going on simultaneously: to agree on a global framework to address climate change, and the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks. To explore the links between these interrelated issues, trade and climate change, ICC hosted a side event at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last week in Bonn. |
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ICC holds sectoral workshop at UNFCCC
It was standing room only at the ICC side event Friday on sectoral approaches to climate change, held during the meeting of subsidiary bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). And those who couldn’t, watched - on UNFCC’s webcast. |
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