Global Compact Network Colombia Convenes National Congress on the Sustainable Development Goals and Making Global Goals Local Business
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Bogotá, Colombia
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(Bogotá, 4 May 2016) – On 3 and 4 May, the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce hosted the Sixth National Congress of the Global Compact Network Colombia.
The event introduced attendees to the 2030 Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN Global Compact’s worldwide campaign, Making Global Goals Local Business, which launched with a search for Local SDG Pioneers.
The two-day event was attended by more than 800 participants from the business community, the UN – including UN Women, UNDP, UNODC,UNIDO,UNICEF, UN Habitat – civil society, academia and Government. Representatives from Global Compact Networks Chile, Argentina, México, Paraguay, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala attended the meeting together with the Regional Centre for the Support of the Global Compact in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The event was opened by the General Director of National Planning Department and Secretariat of the SDG High Level Interinstitutional Commission, Mr. Simón Gaviria; Mrs. Mónica de Greiff, UN Global Compact Board Member CEO of the Chamber of Commerce Bogotá; Mrs. Belén Sanz, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations; Mr. Arnaud Peralt, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director; and Mr. Mauricio López of the Local Network in Colombia; and the UN Global Compact Regional Manager for the Americas.
The panels discussed topics such as: public-private policy dialogue to shape and advance national plans aligned with the SDGs; aligning business goals with the SDGs; business and social innovation to advance the SDGs and the post-conflict goals of the country; transformative business for gender equity and peace; child labour eradication; climate change and the SDGs from the COP21 perspective; adaptation to climate change and protection of environmental resources; sustainable cities; anti-corruption and supply chain sustainability.
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Ms. Anamaría Vargas
Network Contact Person