As the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) opens here today, world business is committed to help create an international framework, supple enough to safeguard biodiversity and promote its sustainable use, the International Chamber of Commerce said.
Business experts and government officials from around the world will meet at the Global Innovation and IP Forum in Beijing on 27-28 March to build strategies to fight the increasing problem of counterfeit goods and piracy of intellectual property rights.
Counterfeiting and piracy are a global epidemic, reaching a scale now too great for individual governments, industry sectors or companies to solve. In response, top government officials, business leaders and international law enforcement officials met in Geneva to call for a greater global marshalling of efforts and resources to counter the growing illegal trade in counterfeit and pirate products. The call for action came at the Third Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, which convened in January 2007.
Global trade flows rebounded across many regions in 2010, according to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Trade and Finance Global Survey 2011, but high-pricing meant that traders in many low-income countries still faced difficulties accessing affordable trade finance.
Business executives from the ICC G20 Advisory Group met with prominent economists from around the world yesterday to explore how business and G20 governments can work together to stimulate the global economy ahead of the upcoming Summit in Cannes, France.
A programme has recently been launched in London to help seafarers and families cope with the physical and mental trauma caused by torture and abuse at the hands of pirates.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) welcomes the recent European Union (EU) initiative to make the European market more efficient by reducing tax distortions and compliance costs. The European Commission on 16 March 2011 published a proposal for a Directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB).
The World Bank and ICC will launch the first of a series of workshops to be held on the ‘Aid for Trade’ (A4T) agenda. Now in its third year, the A4T initiative – launched at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December 2005 – combines public and private sectors perspectives to develop trade-related skills and infrastructure in developing countries.
Today, 15 organizations representing companies around the world publicly applaud Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States for signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). ACTA is a plurilateral trade agreement aimed at improving intellectual property enforcement against counterfeiting and piracy internationally.
As the sixth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) draws to a close in Kenya today, ICC Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS) members have highlighted the essential role of the private sector in driving continued Internet development.
Ways to ensure that arbitration remains an attractive and pragmatic alternative to state justice will be the focus of discussions at the 2011 meeting of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, and the Banking Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have signed a Declaration of Cooperation that will enable industry-wide adoption of the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO).
Ankara, Turkey “The aim of the conference was to bring together all the key players to explore how Turkey’s government and businesses can benefit by more effectively promoting and protecting intellectual property,” said Rifat Hisarcıklıoglu, President of ICC Turkey. “It was very important that Hayati Yazı
ICC Brazil will host its first Taxation Roundtable under the auspices of the ICC Taxation Commission on the 21st October 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event aims to shed light on Brazil tax policy and administrative practices. It promises to be highly pertinent given the crucial role tax policies play in providing stability in today’s continually changing international trade climate.
Technologies and services such as cloud computing, social media and mobile Internet have created a fresh new set of policy challenges that will only be effectively addressed if all relevant stakeholders work together on an equal footing. This was the key message delivered today at the opening of IGF Kenya by Subramanian Ramadorai, Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS) initiative and Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Nairobi Addressing over 100 ministers and delegates at the Kenyan-ITU Ministerial forum, ICC Secretary General Jean-Guy Carrier noted that innovations, investments and economic growth will only occur in partnerships where fair and open approaches to Internet governance are sought. “Private secto
The International Chambers of Commerce (ICC), in association with ICC China, is set to host a major ICC Banking Commission meeting in Beijing from October 24-28 at the Marriot Beijing City Wall. The meeting, which will include a technical workshop and a trade finance summit, will be attended by eminent banking professionals, international organizations and supervisory bodies from over 80 countries.
The ICC G20 Advisory Group, an initiative of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), today consulted with the CEOs of leading regional companies to deliver business input on economic growth and job creation to G20 leaders.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are launching the second phase of their pioneering e-Learning programme, aimed at helping issuing banks involved in the EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme meet best international practice in trade finance.
As China announces a move to establish a national online database of convicted bribers, ICC has released a Mandarin translation of its Resisting Extortion and Solicitation in International Transactions (RESIST) training tool that will support private sector efforts in the country to withstand bribe solicitation. The toolkit – already available in English, French and Spanish – is also being made available this week in Arabic, providing accessible and concrete global solutions to back the international fight against corruption.
RESIST is an ICC joint initiative developed in collaboration with Transparency International, the UN Global Compact and the World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI). It directly addresses concerns raised by the G20 in its Seoul anti-corruption plan, which calls for a strong private sector involvement in fighting corruption. The translations come as a timely addition to ICC anti-corruption efforts ahead of this year’s G20 gathering in Cannes, France in November.