Major Group: Business & Industry
BUSINESS ACTION FOR ENERGY
Working for Sustainable Solutions
2. Encourage voluntary initiatives and partnerships:
involving business as complements to cost-effective and
enforced regulation.
3. Support continued business-to-business capacity
building and dialogue on eco ? and resource efficiency,
environmental management systems, and cleaner
production.
4. Promote the business community?s technological
innovation and management systems in industrial
development contexts by encouraging partnerships and
pursuing trade liberalization and market access.
5. Engage and grow business community involvement in
capacity building, technological cooperation and FDI.
This is critical to help developing countries progress
social and economic development and improve
environmental practices.
6. Open dialogue with business on continuous
improvement in resource and eco-efficiency in industrial
settings. Efficiency is a bottom-line consideration that
lends itself very well to the pursuit of sustainability,
and which many companies have integrated with other
considerations including cleaner production, life-cycle
thinking and waste minimization. These practices can
make good business sense in keeping costs down and in
enhancing competitiveness.
The Issue
The challenge ahead in industrial development is to support
and promote the growth of businesses, particularly in
developing countries, that contribute to the economic, social
and environmental objectives of sustainable development.
The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, Agenda 21 and
other UN deliberations have framed actions for governments
and businesses to undertake. Companies of all sectors, sizes
and nationalities can make a contribution and have to be
engaged. The business community?s central economic, social
and environmental roles in industrial development make the
inclusion of business views and expertise indispensable. The
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD) should recognize and support the enormous and
extremely diverse contribution that business continues
to make in addressing global sustainable development
challenges.
Key Policy Recommendations
1. Strengthen enabling frameworks: Creating an enabling
environment within which enterprises of all sizes
and sectors can develop, create jobs and pursue
technological innovation and cooperation, coupled with
sound governance and policies to reduce barriers to
international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI),
traces a significant route out of poverty.
INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT
BAE is an ad-hoc, temporary business initiative bringing together a comprehensive network of global businesses.
It brings together international, regional and sector organizations and major energy producers and consumers.
BUSINESS ACTION FOR ENERGY
Working for Sustainable Solutions
Successful Partnership
The International Renewable Energy Industry
Alliance (IREA)
The IREA is a partnership to enhance policy and information
on renewable energy, as well as to provide a combined voice
for renewable energy research, business and industry. The
goal of the IREA is to foster collaboration by removing market
barriers, identifying and promoting successful implementation
strategies, enhancing business conditions and developing
markets. This is to be achieved by the provision of reliable
and up-to-date facts and considerations for more informed
decision-making at all levels of national and international
policy and to further the principles and goals declared in
the 2004 Bonn Declaration on Renewable Energies. The
partnership brings together the International Solar Energy
Society, the International Geothermal Association, the World
Wind Energy Association and the International Hydropower
Association.
INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT
BAE is an ad-hoc, temporary business initiative bringing together a comprehensive network of global businesses.
It brings together international, regional and sector organizations and major energy producers and consumers.
Working for Sustainable Solutions
2. Encourage voluntary initiatives and partnerships:
involving business as complements to cost-effective and
enforced regulation.
3. Support continued business-to-business capacity
building and dialogue on eco ? and resource efficiency,
environmental management systems, and cleaner
production.
4. Promote the business community?s technological
innovation and management systems in industrial
development contexts by encouraging partnerships and
pursuing trade liberalization and market access.
5. Engage and grow business community involvement in
capacity building, technological cooperation and FDI.
This is critical to help developing countries progress
social and economic development and improve
environmental practices.
6. Open dialogue with business on continuous
improvement in resource and eco-efficiency in industrial
settings. Efficiency is a bottom-line consideration that
lends itself very well to the pursuit of sustainability,
and which many companies have integrated with other
considerations including cleaner production, life-cycle
thinking and waste minimization. These practices can
make good business sense in keeping costs down and in
enhancing competitiveness.
The Issue
The challenge ahead in industrial development is to support
and promote the growth of businesses, particularly in
developing countries, that contribute to the economic, social
and environmental objectives of sustainable development.
The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, Agenda 21 and
other UN deliberations have framed actions for governments
and businesses to undertake. Companies of all sectors, sizes
and nationalities can make a contribution and have to be
engaged. The business community?s central economic, social
and environmental roles in industrial development make the
inclusion of business views and expertise indispensable. The
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD) should recognize and support the enormous and
extremely diverse contribution that business continues
to make in addressing global sustainable development
challenges.
Key Policy Recommendations
1. Strengthen enabling frameworks: Creating an enabling
environment within which enterprises of all sizes
and sectors can develop, create jobs and pursue
technological innovation and cooperation, coupled with
sound governance and policies to reduce barriers to
international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI),
traces a significant route out of poverty.
INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT
BAE is an ad-hoc, temporary business initiative bringing together a comprehensive network of global businesses.
It brings together international, regional and sector organizations and major energy producers and consumers.
BUSINESS ACTION FOR ENERGY
Working for Sustainable Solutions
Successful Partnership
The International Renewable Energy Industry
Alliance (IREA)
The IREA is a partnership to enhance policy and information
on renewable energy, as well as to provide a combined voice
for renewable energy research, business and industry. The
goal of the IREA is to foster collaboration by removing market
barriers, identifying and promoting successful implementation
strategies, enhancing business conditions and developing
markets. This is to be achieved by the provision of reliable
and up-to-date facts and considerations for more informed
decision-making at all levels of national and international
policy and to further the principles and goals declared in
the 2004 Bonn Declaration on Renewable Energies. The
partnership brings together the International Solar Energy
Society, the International Geothermal Association, the World
Wind Energy Association and the International Hydropower
Association.
INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT
BAE is an ad-hoc, temporary business initiative bringing together a comprehensive network of global businesses.
It brings together international, regional and sector organizations and major energy producers and consumers.