On Sunday President Jacob Zuma will launch Durban Global Business Day at a reception dinner to be hosted by Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American. The fifth annual Global Business Day will address the business approach to meeting the climate change challenge.
ICC leaders and members stepped into the spotlight during a variety of events at the UN climate change conference this week, demonstrating ICC’s influential role as the business and industry focal point at the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and pushing for a robust international agreement on climate change.
Global business has a strong presence at the 2010 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico which begins today and is seeking enhanced channels for engagement to ensure that the process benefits from business dynamism and expertise.
The impact of additional generic top level domain names (gTLDs) to business were highlighted during a gathering of business experts at ICC headquarters earlier this week. Speaking at an ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT) meeting, guest speaker David Taylor, Partner, Hogan Lovells, discussed the potential impact that this will have on the Internet of tomorrow and threats that this initiative poses to businesses. He also highlighted some of the opportunities that this can bring to some businesses. Covering the situation with regard to the domain name industry today, the level of registrations and disputes across the world, Mr Taylor stressed to the participants that: “The situation is complex today and is likely to get worse tomorrow."
The International Trademark Association (INTA) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) welcome the release of the final text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and, in partnership with the Business Response Group (BRG), called on negotiating parties to take the necessary steps to finalize ACTA and begin its implementation. The BRG, which consists of 18 associations from around the world that publicly support ACTA, also provided negotiators with recommendations on how to further strengthen the trade agreement.
Rona Yircali, Chair of the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF), joined California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday for the launch of Regions 20 (R20), a coalition to help mobilize sub-national governments in the fight against climate change.
Business expectations are falling worldwide despite improvements in the state of the global economy for the sixth consecutive quarter, according to the World Economic Survey (WES) published today by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) welcomes the commitment of the Seoul G20 Summit to complete the Doha Round by 2011 and other measures to ensure that trade can make a meaningful contribution to the global economic recovery and job creation.
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has identified a series of potential documentary frauds related to purported shipments into North Africa.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is playing a leading role at an international gathering of over 100 CEOs to voice the views of global business on vital issues and demonstrate that increased cooperation between business and governments is crucial to the global economic recovery and to sustained economic growth.
The G20 Summit in Seoul should resist protectionism and economic nationalism, restore trade finance to more normal levels and strengthen multilateral cooperation to improve the health of the global economy, ICC Chairman Rajat Gupta told Korean President Lee Myung-bak today.
ICC is calling on governments to ensure that implementation of a newly adopted, international agreement on access and benefit sharing, supports the investment and innovation necessary for the creation of benefits from genetic resources.
The Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization was adopted during the early hours of 30 October, at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya, Japan. ICC coordinated the participation of a wide range of business sectors in the negotiations.
Theo Keijzer, Chairman of the ICC Commission on Taxation, today underlined the need to remove the apprehensions of international business regarding the "uncertainty and instability" of the Indian tax system caused by mark ups and the retroactivity in the tax system.
Burdensome and discriminatory taxes unnecessarily stifle the adoption and use of broadband, mobile and other advanced information and communication technology (ICT) sector tools that are major drivers of development and growth in the information-based economy of the 21st century, said ICC today.
In the run-up to the G20 Summit of world leaders in Seoul next month, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has become increasingly concerned by international economic frictions over “currency wars” as several nations have accused each other of manipulating exchange rates in order to gain competitive advantage for their exports.
The ICC Financial Investigation Bureau (FIB) has recently been referred a number of suspicious transactions relating to gold that has purportedly originated in Africa.
In an article published recently on BusinessCloud9.com, Herbert Heitmann, Chair of the ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms and Executive VP, External Communications, Royal Dutch Shell underscores the importance of judicious policymaking to ensure the continued development of cloud computing services. The article was inspired by an ICC BASIS and Government of Kenya co-hosted cloud computing workshop held during the 5th Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania last month.
Prominent members of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice and the ICC International Court of Arbitration are set to join other experts from business and banking to present a spectrum of ICC’s globally recognized trade tools at an international conference.
As the United Nations General Assembly prepares to decide whether to renew the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) – a multistakeholder body created by the UN for discussion of Internet policy issues – the forum received a strong vote of confidence from the business and technical communities today. At a joint event for UN delegates, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Internet Society urged UN member states to continue the mandate of the IGF, with its founding principles intact, as a unique space for exchange on important Internet governance policy matters.