Geoffrey Gamble has been appointed Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy.
ICC is urging governments to provide meaningful opportunities for the private sector to supply input on mutual recognition of US-EU trade partnership programmes for border security.
The ICC recommendations are outlined in a recently released ICC discussion paper on mutual recognition between the US and the EU. Mutual recognition arrangements would allow the companies of one supply chain security programme to receive benefits similar to those conferred to companies participating in another country’s programme.
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) has today released its annual piracy report which shows an unprecedented rise in maritime hijacking in 2008. The 2008 figures surpass all figures for hijacked vessels and hostages taken recorded by the PRC since it began its worldwide reporting function in 1992.
In the wake of the financial fraud involving Bernard Madoff, the investment broker in New York accused of defrauding investors of $50 billion, the ICC Financial Investigation Bureau (FIB) is calling for institutions to exercise a more robust due diligence programme.
The Fifth Global Congress on Counterfeiting and Piracy 2-4 June in Cancun, Mexico, will discuss the rising tide of counterfeiting in Mexico, Central and South America.
The Macau Chamber of Commerce last month became the newest member of the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF). In addition, the chamber is the first ICC member from the region of Macau, thus growing its network to over 130 countries.
The ICC Corporate Economists Advisory Group and Commission on Financial Services and Insurance held a joint meeting on 25 November to discuss the current financial crisis and its implications. The meeting brought together business experts who provided accounting, credit agency, industry and regulatory perspectives on how to restore confidence in global financial markets.
Writing in the Polish Warsaw Business Journal, on the occasion of the UNFCCC in Poznan, ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban urged negotiators to bear in mind the inextricable link between climate change and trade and investment. Mr Sebban also highlighted the need for strong protection of intellectual property rights to ensure private sector investment in new technologies.
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is urging its members to take extra caution during the current economic downturn, with particular regard to commodities trades.
Yet again, ICC must register its disappointment and concern that publicly-stated goals for the Doha Round trade negotiations agreed by countries at heads of government level fail to be translated into reality.
As United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations intensify, ICC underscored during the last week of the UN climate change conference that business urgently needed clear rules and frameworks for the investments required to address climate change.
To offer guidance on corruption in its many guises and assess new ways to combat it, ICC has today introduced a revised edition of Fighting Corruption, International Corporate Integrity Handbook.
A workshop featuring an interactive exchange of experience on the social and economic benefits of digital convergence has underscored how “light touch” government regulation is the best way to enable small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to make the most of new business models.
ICC yesterday hosted a side event during the UN climate change conference in Poznan where business leaders expressed their opinions on what is needed in a post-2012 framework agreement on climate change, in order to accelerate investment in clean technologies.
ICC is honoring the occasion 60 years ago today, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was voted unanimously by the United Nations.
The celebration caps a year-long series of events by the United Nations to help people everywhere learn about the Declaration. Considered one of the most influential documents in history, the Declaration was the first international recognition that all human beings have fundamental rights and freedoms, and has served as the foundation for many international treaties and national laws to protect and promote human rights.
The European Union (EUNAVFOR ATALANTA) is initiating a ‘Close Support Protection’ system for vessels transiting the Gulf of Aden.
Boosting technological know-how in developing countries through better frameworks for education and training would help business to facilitate more rapid advances in clean technology, ICC told negotiators at the 14th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan.
To connect the five billion people without Internet access requires continued investment in infrastructures, open and competitive markets, and policies developed with input from all stakeholders, the Chair of Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS), Subramaniam Ramadorai, said at the opening of the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF) today.
ICC and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) are jointly staging a Global Business Day to give governments clear business insights and ideas to help them progress towards a workable climate policy framework. The Business Day will take place during the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan. The event is also supported by the Polish Government and the UNFCCC secretariat.
World business is united in its call for a global post-2012 framework agreement to curb the effects of climate change, ICC said on the second day of the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC).