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On March 11-15, 2019, the 4th session of the UN Environment Assembly was held in Nairobi (Kenya), where a delegation of Russian business took part for the first time, on the initiative and with the support of the Global Compact Local Network of Russia. The main partners of the Russian delegation program are UN-Environment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Embassy of the Russian Federation and the Representation of the Russian Federation to international organizations...
A Polish town of Katowice has become an international climate capital on 2 to 14 December 2018: it hosted the 24 th conference of the parties to the UN Climate Change Framework Convention (COP24). Key issues of this round of negotiations are methodological, technological and financial aspects of current cooperation of the Parties to the Convention/Kyoto Protocol, and also forming institutional and procedure ...
On 13 December 2017 the special session "Global Compact and the UN sustainability and environmental protection initiatives: values, opportunities and perspectives" took place during the international exhibition and forum "Ecotech". The session was organized by the Russian National Network of the UN Global Compact and UN-Environment. The current perception of a sustainability idea assumes business responsibility for any kind of impact on environment and society; progress not...
... communities and ecosystems where they act. In addition, Global Compact highlights that such adaptation means not only new risks, but also new opportunities to raise companies’ competitiveness, growth and development. ‘Caring for Climate’ is the key climate change initiative, created by the UN Global Compact jointly with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) in order to allow quicker adaptation of business to the ...