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3rdSustainability Summit: Asia 2008
11 - 12 December, Hotel InterContinental The Grand, New Delhi
The ThemeThe 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? In the past two years the Sustainability Summit recognized the need for partnerships between civil society, public and private sectors to foster constructive and innovative solutions to issues pertaining to sustainable development of the region. Over 800 delegates from all India and across the world have participated in this path breaking get-together. We look forward to meeting you at the Sustainability Summit and defining a new growth trajectory for Asia. Focus:
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