THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM - ANNUAL MEETING  - January 22-25, 2014 - | CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – | Scoop.it

                                          VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
                  World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014

 http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2014

 

Guardian Sustainable Business, January 24, 2014
▶ FOOD COMPANIES MUST STAND UP TO THE FOSSIL FUEL SECTOR ON CLIMATE CHANGE. Corporate power is the greatest threat to progress on climate change in Davos. Their bottom line is threatened by extreme weather events and resource scarcity, they need to stop sitting on the sidelines and use their corporate power to demand action  http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/food-blog/food-fossil-fuel-climate-change

 

 

Guardian Sustainable Business, January 25, 2014
▶ REFLECTIONS DAVOS 2014:  AVOID THE OPTIMISM VIRUS. Achim Steiner, executive director of UNEP, sees much progress, but Davos is but one moment on the long road to change http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/davos-2014-achim-steiner-unep-reflections

 

                                                       VIDEO
                                            January 21, 2014
▶ Davos 2014 - WELCOME MESSAGE BY THE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, KLAUS SCHWAB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WZ_3a7r63A

 

BusinessWeek, January 16, 2014
▶ LOOK WHO'S COMING TO DAVOS http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/2014-01-16/look-who-s-coming-to-davos#slide1

 

Guardian Sustainable Business, January 20, 2014

THE B TEAM ASKS BUSINESS TO DRIVE SUSTAINABLE INCLUSIVE PROSPERITY

As the World Economic forum kicks off, business leaders are calling for companies to respond to the 'planetary emergency'... http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/b-team-business-responsibility-inclusive-prosperity

 

                              THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

                                    ANNUAL MEETING 2014

                                        January 22-25, 2014 -

                                          THEME FOCUS:

“THE RESHAPING OF THE WORLD: CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIETY, POLITICS AND BUSINESS

Our aim is to develop the insights, initiatives and actions necessary to respond to current and emerging challenges.http://www.weforum.org/

 

▶  HASHTAGS:  #WEF14 #Davos #WEF #2030Now #WEF2014

@Plus_SocialGood @HelenClarkUNDP 

▶ TWITTER: @Davos @wef #2030Now

 

SUBSCRIBE TO YOUTUBE

▶ WEF VIDEOS https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldEconomicForum?feature=watch

▶ DAVO 2014 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=davos%202014&sm=1

 

 ▶  YOU+DAVOS+SOCIAL GOOD: A #2030Now Perspective on the Global Agenda http://www.plussocialgood.org/post/details/63a6d6aa-4a52-4aa8-be57-fb27a7d45dd1

▶  PLUS SOCIAL GOOD WEBSITE http://www.plussocialgood.org/News

 

                           --------------------------------------------------------

 

RT @HelenClarkUNDP Poverty can't be eradicated if ecosystems are destroyed. Have2tackle poverty in ways which maintain #environment #2030Now

 

▶ LOSING OUR BEES: AUSTRALIAN HONEYBEES UNABLE TO MAKE HONEY: HIVES MELTING AS TEMPERATURES SOAR http://sco.lt/8kNk37

                              

                             --------------------------------------------------------

 

                                               VIDEO REPORT
                                                      CNN
                              THE DAVOS THAT MUST CHANGE
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/27/business/davos-political-economies-quest-defterios-dos-santos/index.html

 

 

▶ Harvard Business Review, January 23, 2014

PUTTING AN END TO CONFERENCES DOMINATED BY WHITE MEN http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/theres-no-excuse-for-all-white-male-panels/

 

 ▶ THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY:  COULD IT PRESENT A NEW WAY OF DOING BUSINESS?  http://sco.lt/8plSHx

 

 Greenpeace, January 22, 2014
▶ DAVOS:  THE SHIFTING NATURE OF POWER AND THE SHIFTING POWER OF NATURE http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/world-economic-forum/blog/47959/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenpeaceNews+%28Greenpeace+News%29

 

Care2, January 31, 2014
 ▶ HOW THE GOOGLE BUS BECAME THE SYMBOL OF INEQUALITY IN AMERICA http://www.care2.com/causes/how-the-google-bus-became-the-symbol-of-inequality-in-america.html

 

 World Economic Forum, December 21, 2014
▶ POPE FRANCIS:  My message to the World Economic Forum in Davos FULL TEXT
"I ASK YOU TO ENSURE HUMANITY IS SERVED BY WEALTH AND NOT RULED BY IT" @pontifex #wef http://forumblog.org/2014/01/pope-francis-message-davos-2014/

 

Forbes, January 22, 2014
▶ DAVOS DISPATCH: RICHARD BRANSON AND THE B TEAM MAKE BUSINESS CASE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2014/01/22/davos-dispatch-richard-branson-and-the-b-team-make-business-case-for-human-rights/

 

Common Dreams, January 22, 2014
▶ DAVOS: CORPORATE ELITE REPRESENTED AT WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ARE CAUSE OF CRISES THEY CLAIM TO WANT TO SOLVE http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/22-0

 

                                                       VIDEO

France24, January 21, 2014
▶ World Economic Forum 2014 (part 1)  Published on Jan 21, 2014
THE 85 RICHEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET EARN AS MUCH AS THE POOREST 3.5 BILLION:  A report by Oxfam highlights the study by a group of economists- #F24Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0yc40GOGFM

 

The Guardian, January 20, 2014

Do the super-rich have too much influence over the way the world is run?

▶ OXFAM: 85 RICHEST PEOPLE AS WEALTHY AS POOREST HALF OF THE WORLD: As World Economic Forum starts in Davos, development charity claims growing inequality has been driven by 'power grab'  http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world

 

                                                       VIDEO

World Economic Forum, January 22, 2014
▶ "JAPAN'S GDP COULD GROW BY 16% IF WOMEN PARTICIPATED IN LABOUR AS MUCH AS MEN": THE RESHAPING OF THE WORLD: VISION OF JAPAN

Special Address by Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan. Chaired by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum.
http://www.weforum.org/sessions/summary/reshaping-world-vision-japan

 

                                                       WATCH
                         TED TALKS - SOCIAL GOOD, INC. (8 TALKS)
Businesses have the resources to make contributions to the collective good. Here, TED Talks on what can happen when corporations make saving the environment and helping people a priority, plus talks on how business principles might even be more effective for creating change than non-profit models... https://www.ted.com/playlists/139/social_good_inc.html

 

 

▶ WILL WOMEN LEAD THE GLOBAL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE REVOLUTION? http://sco.lt/80iNuL

 

▶ HOW NOT TO "FEED THE WORLD" http://sco.lt/8vwnk9

 

                                                  WATCH
                                     THE URGENCY OF NOW

                               Democracy Now, January 20, 2014

       SPECIAL: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. IN HIS OWN WORDS 
The Urgent Need For A Social and Values Revolution - Stirring, Insightful, Motivating - More Relevant Than Ever Today http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/20/special_dr_martin_luther_king_jr

 

 

Corp2020: Pavan Sukhdev Kevin Kromash, May 2013

- ▶  TRANSFORMING BUSINESS FOR TOMORROW'S WORLD http://thesolutionsjournal.com/node/22221

 

- ▶  A CULTURE SEPARATED FROM NATURE CANNOT SURVIVE:  BANKRUPTING NATURE http://sco.lt/994B8L

 

▶AT THE LIMITS OF THE MARKET:  WHY CAPITALISAM HASN'T AND CAN'T SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE http://sco.lt/84Vywz

 

 ▶ THE CORPORATE CONSERVATION REVOLUTION http://sco.lt/75stWr

 

 -▶  ECO-SPIRITUALITY: TOWARDS A VALUES-BASED ECONOMIC STRUCTURE  http://sco.lt/7tcgQj

 

▶ SLEEPWALKING TO EXTINCTION: CAPITALISM AND THE CONSUMER ECONOMY http://sco.lt/9EPNkf

 

 ▶ BUSINESS SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES http://sco.lt/6W8ds1

 

Just Means, December 13, 2013

-▶ THE B CORP REVOLUTION:  INVESTING FROM THE HEART http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/the-b-corp-revolution-investing-from-the-heart

 

 

                ▶   CHANGE IS UPON US AND CHANGE WE MUST  ▶

Women, Indigenous and Youth Are Rising and Their Perspectives Must Be Taken Into Account http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/change-is-upon-us-and-change-we-must/

 

 

 Guardian Sutainable Business, March 1, 2013
-▶ PUTTING NATURE AT THE HEART OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICYMAKING http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nature-heart-economic-social-policymaking

 

-▶  FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL:  OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY? http://sco.lt/8Y7sK9

 

 -▶  ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/7uGWKv

 

▶ BUSINESS AND HUMANITY ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM NATURE http://sco.lt/8gLwmH

 

 -▶  SUPER ORGANIZATIONS:  LEARNING FROM NATURE'S NETWORK http://sco.lt/4pwZHN

 

 

-▶  GREENLAND'S MELTING: CREATING A DIFFERENT CLIMATE THAN EARTH HAS EVER SEEN http://sco.lt/7MZUVV

 

 ▶ WE'RE ON THE BRINK OF THE WORST DROUGHT IN 1,000 YEARS http://sco.lt/74mbHF

 

                                                    WATCH

                         WATER IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

                                         http://sco.lt/856DXl

 

                            AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD

                                           The Natural Eye Project

http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/

 

-▶  "WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES BEFORE MIDNIGHT" - IPCC REPORT: UN CHIEF SCIENTIST URGES ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOW  http://sco.lt/7C0zyb

 

                                                     WATCH

                                              FILM: ***"HOME"

                    An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet

      http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/

 

                              -------------------------------------------------------

 

                                                         SEE

              Ongoing News Aggregates of the State Of Our Planet

 

▶ OUR OCEANS NEED US -- GOING, GOING...http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us

 ▶ CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL - OUR CHANGING PLANET http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet

▶ CORPORATE "SOCIAL" RESPONSIBILITY- Corporations Have a Responsibility to Be Mindful of their Impact on Both Environmental and Human Health http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health

 ▶ BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Humans http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life

 ▶ YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH - The Health of Nature is Reflected in Our Food Production http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides