Seven years passed since Global Sustain presented its first Yearbook, triggering a global discussion regarding important sustainability issues.
This year, Global Sustain chose the theme “The Power of Collaboration” since partnerships are more than ever needed in order to address universal challenges.
Global developments and expectations in economy, environment and technology sectors are among the factors that promote the formation of partnerships, since individual organisations cannot act alone. These partnerships come in many forms, ranging from alliances between businesses and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to goverments and civil society and they create shared value for all stakeholders.
This Yearbook will address, among others, the following topics:
The 8th Yearbook, will future CEOs, corporations and organisations from all around the world, leading the way in sustainability-driven collaborations. There will be research and viewpoints of top experts, decision-makers, policy formers, Nobel Laureates and gurus who will share their vision and expertise regarding this timely subject, with a global audience.
The organisations that participate so far are:
This year, Global Sustain chose the theme “The Power of Collaboration” since partnerships are more than ever needed in order to address universal challenges.
Global developments and expectations in economy, environment and technology sectors are among the factors that promote the formation of partnerships, since individual organisations cannot act alone. These partnerships come in many forms, ranging from alliances between businesses and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to goverments and civil society and they create shared value for all stakeholders.
This Yearbook will address, among others, the following topics:
- Win-win partnerships
- Facilitating supplier collaboration
- Delivering long-lasting, mutual benefits with innovative strategic partnerships
- Joining forces for human rights and transparency issues
- Quantifying and measuring partnerships’ true value
- Collaboration between academics, companies, NGOs and governments
- The impact of business goals on engagement in social partnerships
- Encouraging and incentivising employees to engage into collaborative actions
- Transforming stakeholder dialogue into stakeholder collaboration
- Communicating collaborations effectively
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and partnerships
The 8th Yearbook, will future CEOs, corporations and organisations from all around the world, leading the way in sustainability-driven collaborations. There will be research and viewpoints of top experts, decision-makers, policy formers, Nobel Laureates and gurus who will share their vision and expertise regarding this timely subject, with a global audience.
The organisations that participate so far are:
- A|HEAD|ahead
- EIRIS
- Ethical Markets Media
- European Commission, Research, Science and Innovation
- European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- Forum for the Future
- Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management
- Innovation Forum
- Institute for Managing Sustainability, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
- People Biz, Inc
- Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI)
- SEDEX
- Sustainable Energy for All Initiative
- Sustainable Shipping Initiative
- Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative
- The SROI Network, SIAA, Social Value UK
- United Nations Global Compact
- University of Cambridge
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- The 160page Yearbook will be published in June 2015 and presented in special events
- For further information regarding the Yearbook series you may visit the following address: http://globalsustain.org/en/yearbook
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Yearbook 2014/15: “The Power of Collaboration”
