This is an historic day. The Paris Agreement has been adopted, and it will change everything. The news from Paris is a major step forward by all governments of the world to safeguard the future of life on our planet. After many years of discussions and negotiations, there is now no question: a low-carbon economy is inevitable....
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40 companies already joined the Action 2020 Hungary Program and 20 specific business solutions were already introduced for the most imminent sustainability problems. Unemployment is almost 20 % among the youth, each year 1.8 million tons of food waste is generated and the 2°C warming up forecast for 2050 can already be sensed in Hungary....
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According to 96 % of people asked, examples shown by leaders and their commitment are key from the aspect of sustainability.  According to 96 percent of Hungarian companies, the real sustainability performance depends on the credibility and example shown by the CEO – as revealed by our this year survey. We were primarily interested in...
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To the Gran Prize Officially established On December 12, 2012 by the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Hungary. Annual prize awarded for outstandingly innovative solutions, papers and projects in response to the most pressing issues of our planet, in the field of environmental protection, sustainable development, design, medicine, health preservation and development and education. The SCCH...
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  . . . . . . Date: 4 november 2015 (Wednesday) 14:00–17:00 Venue: MTA Library,  1 Arany J. street Budapest Welcome: Ferenc Friedler (vice president, National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary)   Part A. IPBES in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Keynotes by Thomas Koetz (IPBES Secretariat) and Ivar Baste (IPBES Bureau) followed by...
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The 3rd year of the ‘Future Leaders’ Talent Program will start in January, 2016. We are looking forward to the nominations of our member companies. This year a guide helps the selection of the most appropriate candidate(s). More information: https://bcsdh.zerdamarketing.hu/topics/future-leaders/
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Ahead of the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN’s Sustainable Development Summit in New York, the President’s Office is already focusing on identifying the most important goals for Hungary – announced H.E. Csaba Körösi, Head of the Directorate for Environmental Sustainability at the President’s Office at the BCSDH’s CEO business...
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. . . The international conference entitled ‘Business that Changes the World’ is the highlight of the year-long celebration of the 15th anniversary of CSR partnership in Poland, conceived and initiated by the Responsible Business Forum (to read more about our organisation, please follow the link to the English version of our website: http://odpowiedzialnybiznes.pl/english/). This...
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New York, September 26, 2015: Companies now have a new tool to help them navigate and contribute to a new set of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations on 25 September. Launched a UN-business event at UN Headquarters in New York, the SDG Compass –developed jointly by GRI, the UN Global...
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A Hungarian MA/MSC student will have a chance to win free participation to our ‘Future Leaders’ Talent Program 2016.  We are kindly ask our member companies to assist in the dissemination of the program among universities in order to attract more high quality applications until 30th of October. You can can follow on Facebook at...
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Irén Márta will take over the position of Managing Director of the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary from 15th October. The new leader will take over this task from Ida Petrik, with whom BCSDH has been through significant development. During Ida’s tenure as Managing Director the number of member companies rose to 70,...
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