CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development is organising “3rd Sustainability Summit: Asia 2008” COMPETITIVENESS REDEFINED
11-12 December 2008: Hotel InterContinental The Grand, New Delhi
The current financial crisis and economic slowdown has left businesses and governments scrambling for solutions to remain afloat, redraw plans, redo strategies, and redirect resources. Together with climate change, terrorism, and poverty-induced threats, the existing designs of institutions that act as guardians, drivers and protectors of human society are being constantly challenged.
Unless businesses and governments innovate to low-carbon and sustainable growth, they will cease to remain competitive. The new form of competitiveness is to derive profitability and efficiency from being sustainable to the core. This entails a new perception of competitiveness that can create the possibility for sustainable development and long-lasting competitiveness.
Difficult economic slowdown periods offer opportunities to improve resource efficiency, reduce fossil-fuel dependency, partner with key stakeholders, reduce costs and make more profits.
With this backdrop, the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development and Development Alternatives embarked on an annual Sustainability Summit to seek to answer a fundamentally universal question: what should businesses and governments do to remain competitive and emerge stronger towards the end of the current economic and environmental crisis?
The focus areas under the theme this year are Innovation, Climate change, Corporate sustainability management in Indian companies, Corporate governance, Sustainable livelihoods and Green construction.
Nominate your senior colleagues to attend the 3rd Sustainability Summit: Asia-2008 scheduled on 11 – 12 December 2008 at the Hotel InterContinental The Grand, New Delhi. The delegate fee structure and participation procedure is given in the registration form available at GSIA office.
For any further details contact:
Seema Arora
Principal Counsellor & Head
CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development
2nd Floor, Thapar House, 124, Janpath, New Delhi 110 001
Tel.: 91 11 4150 2304 / 2301 – 02, Fax: 91 11 4150 1924 / 25
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sustainabledevelopment.in