Conference Programme highlights

Speakers at the Global Ethics Forum 2014 Conference at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) in Bangalore/India were influential high profile leaders from business, government, academia, civil society, and other key stakeholder groups. Speakers included:

• Walter Fust, International Chair Global Ethics Forum, President, Globethics.net and Former Ambassador, Switzerland;
• S.D. Shibulal, International Chair Global Ethics Forum and CEO and Co-founder, Infosys, India;
• Mervyn King, International Chair Global Ethics Forum and Chairman, International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), UK/South Africa;
• Le Ping, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Globalization and China's Modernization, UIBE. China;
• Arnold Smit, BEN Africa, Driector of the Centre for Buinsess in Society, University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa;
• Klaus Leisinger, Chairman Emeritus, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Switzerland;
• Yahya Wijaya, Director, Center for Business Ethics, Indonesia;
• Prof. HH Sri Sri Ravi, Shankar, Art of Living, India;
• Alexander Ageev, Director General, Ethics Institute of Economics, Russia;
• Kumud Srinivasan, President, Intel India; and many others.

How has the solar industry fared in the down economy? During today's OnPoint, Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, releases SEIA's new first-quarter

How has the solar industry fared in the down economy? During today's OnPoint, Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, releases SEIA's new first-quarter data. Resch discusses the climate for bringing renewables online and the competition that exists between renewables and natural gas.

Source: http://www.eenews.net/tv/ (6/16/2011)

Sustainability: Economist, Arthur Brooks talks about culture from his view as American Enterprise Institute

Sustainability: Economist, Arthur Brooks talks about culture from his view as American Enterprise Institute President. He argues in his book, The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future, that "most Americans don't see free enterprise as just an economic matter, they see it as kind of a lifestyle issue, they see it as the bedrock of American culture and that's about 70 percent of the population."

Bjorn Stigson is president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a CEO-led, global

Bjorn Stigson is president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development.His key message to business people, climate issue is primarily a question of competiveness. Resource constrained, pollution constrained, the ones that can deliver green, clean solutions will be the winners. ABC Radio/Australia.

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