FREE EVENT: The Australia Pacific Earth Charter +10 Festival:Corporate and Global Governance

 

Friday 17 September, 2010, 7:00am-12:30pm

The Australia Pacific Earth Charter +10 Festival1 is being held in Brisbane on 16 to 19 September 2010. The Festival is a celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the launch of the Earth Charter and will focus on our collective ability to respond to the major impacts of climate change, the global financial crisis and regional conflicts using the values and principles of the Earth Charter as a way forward. The Festival will bring people to Brisbane from across Australia and from neighbouring countries in the Pacific region to share ideas in an atmosphere of celebration and collaboration.

On day two, Friday 17 September, our Centre, in partnership with the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) (Queensland), is holding a session on corporate and global governance, entilted 'Harvesting the benefits: business action on the Earth Charter'.

 
Program


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7:00am  ::  Registration and networking continental breakfast

8:00am  ::  Keynote presentations: Business commitments to positive action

    * Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretary and the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at the University of PEACE, Costa Rica

    * Matthew Robinson, Business Development Manager, InterfaceFLOR, Australia

    * Sandy Blackburn-Wright, Head of Organisational Mentoring, Group Sustainability and Community Involvement, The Westpac Group

    * Professor Malcolm McIntosh (Chair), Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (APCSE), Griffith Business School

9:30am  ::  Networking break

10:00am  ::  Parallel interactive breakout sessions: Learning for action

    * Linking up for action: The Earth Charter, Global Reporting Initiative and United Nations Global Compact, facilitated by Rosemary Sainty, Secretariat for the United Nations Global Compact Network Australia (UNGCNA) and Professor Malcolm McIntosh, Director of APCSE and member of the UNGCNA Steering Committee.

    * Translating corporate intention into corporate activity: embedding action plans into the DNA of your business, facilitated by Rob Quinn, Principal, Executive Central Group

    * Leadership for environmental, social and economic sustainability, facilitated by Dr Ngaire Bissett and Dr Ros Wilson, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith Business School, Griffith University

    * Spaceship earth: navigating complexity for a sustainable future, facilitated by Associate Professor Andrew Wilford, Mirvac School of Sustainable Development, Bond University

11:30pm ::  Plenary: Feedback from breakout sessions

12:00pm  ::  Closing session: The imperative for action

    * Dr Simon Longstaff, St James Ethics Centre

12:30pm  ::  Close
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MORE INFORMATION

Registration

    * This is now a FREE event. To register book online or email green-gbs@griffith.edu.au or phone (07) 3735 3253
    * For further information, including registration, on other days and sessions of the 3 day festival please visit the Earth Charter Australia website.

 
Venue   
The Ship Inn Function Room (Level 2), Griffith South Bank Graduate Centre (S07), South Bank campus, Griffith University.
 
 

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