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Current Issues In Sustainability: How to promote responsible entrepreneurship in world trade A seminar event presented by The Worshipful Company of World Traders & Cass Entrepreneurs Network (CEN) http://www.world-traders.org/masters/currentIssuesNonMembers/index.php Thursday 17 May 2012 Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre City University, London 6.00pm Speakers Richard Brown: Chairman, Eurostar Amee Devani: Head of Business Development at Pavegen Systems Marcel Steward: Independent Environmental Services Professional Christopher Seow: Visiting Fellow in Operations and Sustainability, Cass Business School Simon Lee: Business Development Manager at Business in the Community Trewin Restorick: CEO at Global Action Plan Azhar Azhar: Director at Conran and Partners Moderator - Leo Castellanos: Chairman, Cass Entrepreneurs Network World Traders' Master - Mei Sim Lai OBE, Master, The Worshipful Company of World Traders Sustainable development is one of the challenges of our time. Debate about the best way in which to achieve "green" goals and match the wider corporate social responsibility agenda is gaining momentum among the global business community and is also an issue of pressing concern among governments and legislators. Defined simply, sustainable development means economic activity that limits, ameliorates or prevents damage to the existing natural environment. It includes improvements in resources and processes, reductions in waste and inefficiency, and also due consideration of the needs and rights of the communities within which organisations operate. In order to drive this agenda, new economic models and entrepreneurial approaches are gaining currency and have the potential to dramatically reshape and disrupt the business landscape of the 21st century. This Worshipful Company of World Traders and the Cass Entrepreneurs Network seminar and reception seeks to highlight and explore best practice in responsible entrepreneurship. To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/industrial-ecology or send the following command to [log in to unmask] leave industrial-ecology