CNI Sustainability Conference
Global Understanding in dialogue with policy and business
In form of an encompassing Sustainability Conference, organized by Brazilian Chamber of Industry (CNI) and with broadest press coverage, the IYGU Opening Ceremony for Brazil was celebrated on September 22, 2016.
From left to right on stage: Rosana Jatobá (Moderator from Globo TV), B.W., Kersten Barth (Director Sustainbility, Siemes), Isabella Wanderley (Vice President of New Channel Development at Grupo Boticário, Brazil), Walter Dissinger (President of Votorantim Ciment), Gordon McBean (President, ICSU, IYGU Steering Committee), Ulisses Sabará (President of Beraca, Brazil), Klaus Töpfer (former President UNEP, IYGU, Patron) and Marcos Troyjo (Director of BRICLab at Columbia University, Brazil)
The IYGU delegation included the two IYGU Patrons Eliezer Batista (Initiator of the 1992 UN Rio Summit) and Prof Klaus Töpfer (former UNEP President), Gordon McBean (founder IPCC), Kersten Barth (Sustainability Director Siemens) and Benno Werlen (Executive Director). In his message to the conference, Eliezer Batista highlighted the following two key messages to the CNI representatives of all 27 Brazilian Federal states:
“The premises of the International Year emphasize that there is a clear and unequivocal connection between local actions and global challenges; in other words, global sustainability depends on the daily actions of each of us, right where we live. It also takes into account that every people have its own traditions and history, which makes it necessary to recognize that there are culturally distinct paths to achieving global sustainability”.
“IYGU emphasizes culturally different paths to global sustainability and that only changing individual actions will lead to a change in collective action, whose result will be the improvement of the system’s global scope.”
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