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Sustainability
”building and supporting strong economies and communities, providing opportunities for people to pursue a livelihood and ensuring that everyone can live in dignity. In these goals, the UN and businesses are partners.” Ban Ki Moon
The international business community is deeply committed to supporting sustainable development, including through the United Nations millennium Development process: in our view, this process encompasses a broad range of deliberations and treaties impacting commercial activity and the business community. These include Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, decisions of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the U.N. Millennium Declaration, the Marrakech Process and the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development.
Implementation of these commitments by all sectors of society is essential, and although they are ambitious, making significant progress is attainable with the right priorities, adequate resources, appropriate engagement and framework conditions. Business is a key partner in these undertakings and has made progress in implementing environmental and sustainability policies and practices, and providing more efficient and sustainable processes, products and services.
ICC work in this area is far-reaching and encompasses a variety of ICC member companies and international sectoral organizations. Several main thematic focal areas under which the ICC Commission on Environment and Energy is engaged in include:
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