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WRI Media Advisory: The Impact of Social and Political Trends on Tomorrow’s Businesses

WRI Media Advisory: The Impact of Social and Political Trends on Tomorrow’s Businesses

Published 03-15-04

Submitted by World Resources Institute

WASHINGTON -
WHAT: The concluding plenary of WRI’s Seventh Sustainable Enterprise Summit will focus on crosscutting social and political issues that will shape the global economy in the future. Areas discussed will include population, human security, labor conditions, and governance.

A panel of international experts will lead an audience-involved debate on what conditions and corporate norms need to be established for business to thrive in the new markets explored throughout the Seventh Sustainable Enterprise Summit

WHEN: Thursday, March 18, 2004 from 11:15am-12:30pm

WHERE: Watergate Hotel
2650 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
(800) 289-1555

WHO: Robert Engleman, vice president for research, Population Action International

Jessica Tuchman Matthews, president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

S. Prakash Sethi, president and CEO, International Center for Corporate Accountability

Moderated by: Elizabeth Cook, director, Sustainable Enterprise Program, WRI

WHY: WRI’s Seventh Sustainable Enterprise Summit will take place on March 17-18, 2004 at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. “Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Markets” will bring together innovative corporate leaders and sustainability experts to explore solutions that corporations can provide in response to today’s most pressing global challenges, and, in so doing, position themselves as the competitive enterprises of the future.

For more information on WRI’s Seventh Sustainable Enterprise Summit, please visit http://summit.wri.org.

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