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The 7th Annual Sustainable Enterprise Summit: “Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Markets”

The 7th Annual Sustainable Enterprise Summit: “Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Markets”

Published 12-09-03

Submitted by World Resources Institute

WASHINGTON, DC - The annual Sustainable Enterprise Summit is the World Resources Institute's premiere business event. Nearly 200 business executives convene at the Summit each year to learn from experts and fellow attendees about best practices for implementing leading sustainable business strategies.

WRI's 7th Annual Summit Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's Markets will bring together innovative corporate leaders and sustainability experts to explore the themes raised in the Institute's recent publication, Tomorrow's Markets: Global Trends and Their Implications for Business, now in its second edition. The premise of the publication and this year's Summit is that the sustainable enterprises of the future will align their growth strategies with providing solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. Specific sessions at the Summit will focus on today's challenges and tomorrow's markets in: energy; natural resources; transportation; water; and nutrition. Other sessions will explore finance, opportunities at the base of the economic pyramid and corporate management skills for capturing new markets.

Sessions topics thus far include:

  • Integrating Carbon Value into Strategic Business Decisions
  • Overcoming Challenges to Building Green Power Markets
  • Insurance and Finance
  • The Road to Sustainable Transportation
  • The Influence of Corporate Values and Employee Skills on Tomorrow's Markets
  • Nutrition for Tomorrow's Market

    For questions on agenda, please contact Lydia Vermilye, Communications Specialist
    lydiav@wri.org

    For questions on logistics, please contact Oretta Tarkani, Director of Conference Services
    oretta@wri.org

    For more information and to register, please visit: http://summit.wri.org

    For more than a decade, WRI's Sustainable Enterprise Program has harnessed the power of business to create profitable solutions to environment and development challenges. WRI is the only organization that brings together corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, and business schools to accelerate change in business practice.

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    The World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives. Our mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Because people are inspired by ideas, empowered by knowledge, and moved to change by greater understanding, WRI provides—and helps other institutions provide—objective information and practical proposals for policy and institutional change that will foster environmentally sound, socially equitable development. WRI organizes its work around four key goals:

  • People & Ecosystems: Reverse rapid degradation of ecosystems and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services.
  • Access: Guarantee public access to information and decisions regarding natural resources and the environment.
  • Climate Protection: Protect the global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.
  • Markets & Enterprise: Harness markets and enterprise to expand economic opportunity and protect the environment.
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