Lord
Holme honoured with inaugural ICC Award
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| Lord Holme - an impressive
talent |
Paris,
19 November 2002 - At
a meeting of the ICC World Council today, Lord Richard Holme of Cheltenham was
recognised for his services to international business, receiving the inaugural
ICC Award.
Lord Holme, who has served
as chairman of the ICC Commission on Environment and Energy for four years,
was honoured by ICC Chairman, Richard McCormick as an "impressive talent"
whose efforts were vital to the success the business community enjoyed at the
recent World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
"He provided much of
the strategic thinking behind the successful business stance at the summit which
resulted in widespread acceptance by governments that, when it comes to sustainable
development, business is part of the solution," Mr McCormick said.
The ICC Award - inaugurated
at the ICC World Council meeting today - recognises the outstanding contribution
by an individual to the work of ICC - the world business organization.
Accepting his award, before
an audience of some 80 international business leaders, Lord Holme said he was
honoured to be the first recipient of the ICC Award.
He told the gathering the
World Summit in Johannesburg represented a watershed in the way companies around
the world think and operate.
"What we discovered
in Johannesburg was that the sustainable development agenda is not some passing
fad," he said. "But increasingly it has become the paradigm around
which the world is trying to organize its thinking - and business is at the
vanguard of that."
"We made a great effort
at Johannesburg - a prodigious effort indeed. The most important lesson to have
come out of Johannesburg is exacly where business needs to be at these sorts
of intergovernmental conferences. And that is, not in the dock, as prisoners
being accused, or at the window, with noses pressed up against the pane - but
rather sitting at the table, contributing to the search for solutions."
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