ICC has called upon G8 justice ministers and G8 foreign ministers to advocate measures for better intellectual property protection during the G8 Summit in Hokkaido Toyako, Japan next month.
World business stands ready to work closely with governments to find comprehensive and viable solutions for rising energy prices and demand for energy, ICC said in a letter to energy ministers who will be attending a G8 meeting in Aomori, Japan from 7 to 8 June.
Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin, launched today the one year countdown to the 6th World Chambers Congress to be held on 3-5 June 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
ICC’s World Chambers Federation is inviting chambers of commerce to join the Private Sector Liaison (PSLO) Network of the World Bank Group.
ICC agreed to strengthen its strategic alliance with the World Bank during a meeting in Paris last spring between Anthony Parkes, Director of the World Chambers Federation (WCF), and Gilles Garcia, PSLO Programme Manager at the World Bank.
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been extended from 30 May to 15 June 2008.
Business is a willing, ready and committed partner to help build an inclusive information society, Subramaniam Ramadorai, Chair of Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS), and CEO & Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services based in India, told the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) today in Geneva.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has put forward a series of practical proposals to address environmental concerns through cooperative actions between governments and the private sector i n a letter to environment ministers attending the G8 environment ministers meeting, 24-26 May in Kobe, Japan.
Following this week’s publication of revised negotiating texts on agriculture and industrial products, ICC today called on all WTO members to seize the opportunity offered by these texts to reach agreement on these key issues, with a view to successfully concluding the Doha Round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations by the end of this year.
An international regime on access and benefit sharing (ABS) of genetic resources must consider the wide variety of ways business sectors use these resources, the International Chamber of Commerce said today, speaking at the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP-9) of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD).
Economists said global economic growth has slowed further since the beginning of the year and they expected growth to continue slackening over the coming six months, according to the last ICC/Ifo World Economic Survey released today.
Despite a surge of activity that sought to curb business corruption in the 1990s, there is little evidence of a real fall in incidents of bribery in international business transactions, or in the wider forms of corruption in which companies have been implicated.
The ICC Banking Commission is working toward final approval of a revision to UCP 500, ICC's universally used rules on documentary credits. Three years in preparation, the revision, which may be completed as early as October, will contain major changes to rules which govern billions of dollars in letter of credit transactions each year.
ICC’s Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS) will this week convey global business priorities at the latest round of preparatory meetings for the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which will take place in Hyderabad, India on 3-6 December 2008.
A few hours before the opening of the meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which took place from 20-25 April in Accra, Ghana, a select number of senior business and government delegates met in closed quarters to discuss the current global challenges facing the world. The food crisis, the rise of new forms of investment protectionism, climate change, the Millennium Development Goals and the emergence of the new South, were the key topics of discussion.
Following on from more than a quarter of a century of cooperation, ICC and Junior Chamber International (JCI), a worldwide federation for entrepreneurs and professionals under 40, have recently embarked on a variety of new joint initiatives to foster responsible entrepreneurship.
Responding to the growing need of local businesses and SMEs to use intellectual property (IP), ICC has launched an online toolkit and pilot training program for chambers of commerce on this rapidly-evolving field.
Responding to an increasing demand for qualified construction personnel across Europe, the Pathways project is a combined national and regional effort among the European workforce.
ICC and its Task Force on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data will host a conference entitled “A Global Perspective on Data Protection and Processing” on 28 May in Paris.
ICC, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) are pleased to open nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The awards recognize the contribution of the private sector to help achieve the MDGs through their core business.