Business Leaders' Programme
The Centre in association with the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore organised in August, 2007 its first programme on Strategies and Leadership for Creating Sustainable Organisations.
This four-day programme aimed to help decision makers of leading organisations appreciate the challenges and opportunities in sustainable development and inspire them to start the virtuous cycle of sustainable development by transforming their organisations.
Prof. Stuart Hart, Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise, The Johnson School, Cornell University; John Elkington, Founder & Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility; Mr. Y C Deveshwar, Chairman, ITC; Prof. P D. Jose, IIM-B and many other distinguished business leaders and NGOs constituted the faculty and nearly 30 CEOs, Directors, Presidents and Vice Presidents from 20 large, medium and small scale Indian companies participated.
2nd Sustainability Summit Asia 2007
The CII-ITC Centre of Excellence in association with Development Alternatives, held its second annual summit in December 2007. The summit provided an enabling platform for fostering ‘partnerships for action’ among various stakeholders in Asia and other parts of the world.
Some of the prominent summit partners included the Australian Government, SustainAbility-UK, WWF & UNEP.
A large number of participants from industry, government, NGOs, academia and media debated on the agenda of fostering partnerships for food security, best practices, sustainability in construction, responsible mining and sustainable financing. |