Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Over the past decade, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda has moved centre stage within the business community. The Oslo conference aims to take the ongoing debate on business and sustainability even further. It will be a platform for an integrated approach comprising key players from business, government, academia, trade-unions
and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Conference programme

The Oslo conference on good governance and social and environmental responsibility will address a broad range of sustainability issues in the global market place: human rights, decent work standards, environmental and climate change, corruption and corporate governance.

 Can we continue to operate as we have, or do we need to think and act in radically different ways?

 Around 100 top experts in the field will be speaking at the conference. Prominent speakers include Helen Esuene, Minister of Environment, Nigeria, Irene Alexandra da Silva Neto, Angolan Deputy Minister of External Relations for Cooperation, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General and Director of Strategic Partnerships, UNDP, Björn Stigson, President of the WBCSD,  Sharan Burrow, President of the International Trade Union Confederation,  Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International,  Josè Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, CEO of Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Kishor Chaukar, Managing Director of Tata Industries, Jannik Lindbæk, Chairman of the Board, of Statoil  Georg Kell, Executive Head of the UN Global Compact and  Ernst R. Ligteringen, Chief Executive of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The conference hosts are represented by Norway’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs, International Development, and the Environment. 

The conference is being jointly organised by business and industry partners, including the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the UN Global Compact, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).  It will be an innovative and challenging event, with focus on some of the most urgent issues facing us today. It will also provide an excellent environment for networking.

Some 500 representatives from government, international institutions, the private sector, trade unions, civil society and various research institutions are expected to attend.

For more information and to register online, please visit the conference website: www.csr-oslo.org