SDG Roadshow 2018 - Making Global Goals Local Business - Belfast
Date and time
Location
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
3 Cromac Quay Ormeau Gasworks Belfast, BT7 2JDDescription
After the largest public consultation ever undertaken, the Global Goals were adopted in 2015 by the UK and the other 192 member states of the United Nations.
At the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, they call for economic growth, innovation, circular economies and upgraded infrastructure, as well as providing a path to end extreme poverty, fight inequality, and protect the planet.
The SDGs were hailed as a ‘paradigm shift for people and planet’ by former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. They are going to transform our world, and that transformation will create opportunities for new business models to deliver new products and services into new markets.
Every company (and every citizen) needs to understand this important global megatrend!
What are the Global Goals?
Why should business care about the Goals?
How can business contribute to achieving the Goals and benefit from doing so?
Join us at Making Global Goals Local Business - Belfast to find out. Attendance is free!
Speakers include:
Steve Kenzie, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network UK
Nichola Hughes, Director, Sustainable Northern Ireland
Barry Donaghy, Director, ISL Waste Management
Alex Shepherd, Technical Controller, Suki Tea
Kerry Melville, Coordinator, Belfast Food Network
David Lindsay, Director of Environment, Ards and North Down Borough Council
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Invitations have been sent to the largest companies in the region.
Information on the SDG Roadshow 2018 can be found at:
www.sdg-roadshow.org.uk
#SDGRoadshow
#MakingGlobalGoalsLocalBusiness
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The UN Global Compact’s aim is to mobilise a global movement of sustainable companies and stakeholders to create the world we want. The UK Network delivers an extensive programme of activity to support UN Global Compact Participants and Signatories to operationalise the UN Global Compact's 10 principles that cover human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption - and to promote the Sustainable Development Goals.
Herbert Smith Freehill is an International Law firm with Co-Headquarters in London and Sydney. Globally pre-eminent in litigation and an international leader in corporate and finance, Herbert Smith Freehills consistently ranks as one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. In the 2016 Global Elite Brand Index for law firms, Herbert Smith Freehills was named equal 12th. In 2013-2015, Business Review Weekly named the firm as Australia's best professional services firm with revenue over $200 million.
Sustainable Northern Ireland came into existence in 1998 as a collaborative project of NI Environment Link, WWF and the Local Government Training Group. Their objective, then as now, was to promote the adoption of sustainable development principles by local authorities and other agencies of government.