CAUX INITIATIVES FOR BUSINESS

Asia Plateau, Valley View (Photo: Mike Brown)Asia Plateau, Valley View (Photo: Mike Brown)

Caux Initiatives of Business held its Annual Conference for 2011, in Panchgani, Maharashtra, India, between the 19-23 November. The theme of the Conference was 'Making Growth Sustainable - Balancing Economic Growth and Human Responsibility'. More information  

What is the Lord Mayor’s ‘Restoring trust in the City’ initiative all about? Corporate governance adviser Richard Sermon, who was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the previous Lord Mayor of London’s initiative, spells out a seven-point plan.

Senior Indian and Japanese business executives discussed the balance between economic growth and human responsibility, when they met at the sixth annual conference of Caux Initiatives for Business (CIB), Asia Pacific regional group. The conference, on ‘Making growth sustainable’, took place at Asia Plateau, the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Panchgani, Maharashtra, from 19 to 23 November.

Yahaya Ahmed from Nigeria has pioneered a cooking stove to fight the encroachment of the desert and climate change. It is also helps to combat communal tensions. He told his story to Michael Smith at a recent conference on 'trust and integrity in the global economy' in Caux, Switzerland.

Can businesses thrive by doing the right thing? Swiss business woman Jane Royston gives an emphatic yes. She talked to Michael Smith at the recent conference on 'Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy', held in Caux, Switzerland, 2 to 8 August.

News from the TIGE conference in Caux 2010

Focolare leader: an ‘economy of communion’ can help towards the UN’s Millennium Development Goals
The Italian President of the Focolare Movement, Maria Voce, spoke today at the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux, above Montreux. She spoke on ‘Economy of Communion: an instrument at the service of humanity on the way towards a united world’ at the conference ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy: Exploring ways to help create a just and equitable global economy’.

Caux Initiatives for Business: Indian business leader links current crisis to a deficit of trust
R Gopalakrishnan, the Executive Director, Tata Sons and a Member of the Group Executive Board, Tata Group, spoke today on ‘Beyond consumer capitalism – towards sustainability and free trade’ at the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux.

 

Caux Initiatives for Business explores ways to help create a just and equitable future
The conference ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy: Exploring ways to help create a just and equitable global economy’ opened last night in the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux. This last of six summer conferences in the centre has attracted 160 participants. For six days, business professionals, social entrepreneurs, representatives of NGOs and people from the food industry, from many countries will meet to develop actions directed at creating a fairer economy.