Role of Governments and Businesses in Building Back Better: Sanda Ojiambo
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About this event
Welcome to the 2021 Business for Peace Spotlight Series: Rethinking Systems of Decent Work!
Each May, Business for Peace hosts its annual Summit, including the pinnacle Business for Peace Award Ceremony. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we postponed our 2020 Summit and decided to host an exciting new digital event series as a scaled down version of our usual events. In line with our vision to recognise, inspire and accelerate "businessworthy" leadership, we will continue to host valuable, impactful discussions about current global issues affecting sustainability and ethical business leadership.
Please visit our website to view our complete programme.
Event Description
The pandemic has highlighted the vulnerabilities within our social and economic systems, particularly our misguided focus on short-term economic growth and efficiency over long-term resilience and sustainability. In building back better, we need to commit to designing economic systems that reduce socio-economic inequalities and tackle global environmental emergencies such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Environmentally destructive activities and unsustainable structures that prevent upward social mobility can no longer be the norm, as we are faced with the opportunity to rebuild more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive societies.
Join us for this one-on-one interview with Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact as we discuss how governments and businesses can work together to design recovery policies anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals.
This interview will also focus on recovery measures with long term social and environmental objectives, investing in technological and process innovation to generate sustainable solutions to global crises, and natural and physical infrastructure that build socio-economic resilience to macro-environmental shifts.
This is part of the 2021 Business for Peace Spotlight Series.
Organizer Business for Peace
Organizer of Role of Governments and Businesses in Building Back Better: Sanda Ojiambo
Business for Peace is an international foundation based in Oslo that aims to support, inspire, and recognise global business leaders who are positively changing the face of business.
At the centre of the Foundation’s activities is the annual Oslo Business for Peace Award, conferred to exceptional individuals who exemplify the Foundation’s concept of being businessworthy: ethically and responsibly creating value both for both business and society.
The Foundation also hosts an annual Summit bringing together business leaders, investors, leaders of NGOs, politicians, academics, and civil society from all over the world to discuss the practical actions needed in order to make substantial and sustainable business contributions to society.
