{"id":2017,"date":"2007-10-01T14:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/high-level-conference-on-business-and-biodiversity\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:02:38","slug":"high-level-conference-on-business-and-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/high-level-conference-on-business-and-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"High Level Conference on Business and Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a title=\"071015_biodiversity.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/HighLevelConferenceonBusinessandBiodiversity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"071015_biodiversity.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/071015_biodiversity.jpg\" alt=\"071015_biodiversity.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">High Level Conference on Business &amp; Biodiversity. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 12,<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">13  November 2007<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Lisbon<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Portugal<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In 2000, in <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Lisbon<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, the EU Heads of State and Government agreed to make the EU &#8220;the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010&#8221;. In 2001, the EU further committed to &#8220;halting biodiversity decline by 2010&#8221;. In 2006, the European Commission launched a biodiversity communication, which included a commitment to engage the private sector in partnerships for biodiversity. Now, in 2007, under the Portuguese Presidency, business leaders, biodiversity experts, NGOs and policy makers, will return to <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Lisbon<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> to explore how European business can improve its competitiveness whilst halting biodiversity loss. The conference will contribute to an improved understanding of the competitive advantages gained from preserving biodiversity. It will also provide guidance to the European Commis-sion&#8217;s initiative on Business and Biodiversity. In November, in <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Lisbon<\/span>, the European 2010 agenda for Business and Biodiversity will be established. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/countdown2010.net\/files\/bb_proceedings_screen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;\">Conference: Contribution by Covalence <span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\">| Country: Global <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\">|<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"FR\">Source: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/HighLevelConferenceonBusinessandBiodiversity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council and European Commission<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Level Conference on Business &amp; Biodiversity. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 12,13 November 2007. Lisbon Portugal.In 2000, in Lisbon, the EU Heads of State and Government agreed to make the EU &#8220;the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010&#8221;. In 2001, the EU further committed to &#8220;halting biodiversity decline by 2010&#8221;. In 2006, the European&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}