While the world faces the current financial crisis, companies and the media speak more and more about the importance of Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) while continuing to support their economic growth. How do big companies move from being purely profit oriented towards ethical business? How does Nestlé evaluate its overall corporate citizenship record, and how [...]

5% à 10 % des échanges commerciaux actuels s’effectuent dans le cadre d’une économie sociale et solidaire (ESS). Les coopératives de production, de consommation et de logement, les programmes de crédits solidaires et [...]

The Global Footprint Network, together with the IUCN, is proud to announce its first training course on Footprint methodology and applications in Switzerland. If you would like to explore how different sustainability practitioners are using this tool to strengthen their work please join us for a hands-on training course, to be held from 18-19 May [...]

Can strategic corporate social responsibility achieve both social and business objectives to overcome malnutrition? What innovations and successful partnership models will move the nutrition agenda forward? Join the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), in partnership with CSR Geneva and Geneva Women in International Trade (GWIT), for a roundtable discussion with the CEO of a [...]

Workshop in the European Parliament. Brussels. 27.04.2009, 16.30-18.30. hosted by MEP Richard Howitt, EP Reporter on Promoting a European Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility. The economic crisis demonstrates that the the global economy has been on a wrong track. How could we get into such a difficult situation after so many years of apparently (?) [...]

L’unique forum qui établit une passerelle entre l’industrie durable et la communauté financière. Le Geneva Forum for Sustainable Investment qui aura lieu les 25 et 26 mars 2009 à l’Hôtel Intercontinental de Genève veut fournir aux investisseurs une vision claire du marché des investissements durables et de ses solutions d’investissement. Le bassin lémanique, berceau du [...]

Trading Forum. Tuesday, 31 March 2009. Interconnection of the Markets and the Impact of Non-Fundamental Factors • Sustainable Energy, is it a Lasting or Ephemeral Event? • Corporate Social Responsibility. This forum will interest trading and finance executives who wish to acquire an enhanced vision of the global economic, financial and social challenges of the [...]

We take great pleasure in inviting you, your colleagues and friends to the BSCC Business Luncheon in Geneva, Thursday, 19th March 2009, Hotel Beau-Rivage, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Geneva 11.45 Aperitifs; 12.15 Luncheon. Our guest of honour and speaker will be Jakob von Uexkull, Founder of the World Future Council, Hamburg & London, Who will speak [...]

You have another chance to hear from Mr Lee Howell, Senior Director at WEF. Lee will be speaking at our next informal CSR Geneva breakfast on Wednesday 25th March and taking us through the discussions at Davos 2009 and the outcomes related to sustainability that will be a focus of WEF work going forward. Join [...]

CRS Geneva Talks and Drinks with Salil Tripathi, Institute of Human Rights and Business, 15th January 2009, 18h00, Restaurant la Broche, salle Combourgeoise, 1st floor, rue du Stand 36, Geneva. Salil is Director of Policy at the Institute of Human Rights and Business in London, chaired by Mary Robinson. Besides, he is also engaged as [...]