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COATO President participates in the Sustainable Development Summit Rio +20 (22/06/2012)

COATO President Jose Luis Hernandez, is participating this week in the events of the Summit for Sustainable Development, Rio +20, held in this Brazilian city as part of a delegation of Spanish companies that have attended the Forum for Sustainability Corporate Network has organized the World of the UN Global Compact (Global Compact), whose Executive Committee in Spain is a member COATO.

The Forum on Corporate Sustainability, has addressed these days, in parallel with the Summit, various aspects of sustainable development and 'green economy, from the perspective of companies and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility).

The representative of COATO, which is the leading European company in organic-crop area has also participated in various events related to sustainable organic farming, which has coincided with international leaders of IFOAM (International and European Organization for Organic Farming), as well as senior representatives of the European Commission related to agriculture and with leaders of some Spanish agricultural organizations.

The various representations of Spanish entities attending the Summit, in addition to members of the official delegation of the Spanish State, are located in the area of ​​NGOs (ECODES, CONAMA and others) as well as companies and also some Autonomous Communities and municipalities.

They have participated in some of the many events that coincide with the Summit and were able to follow, almost live, both the discussions of the preparatory sessions and the plenary of the Summit itself, as well as being regularly informed of the course of negotiations by the Spanish State Secretary for the Environment, Federico Ramos, who has held several meetings with representatives of those groups, sharing details about the evolution of the official negotiating text to be adopted at the Summit.

And even with the Minister Arias Cañete, in the final stage of the Whole.

And the same President Rajoy, who changed impressions informally with representatives of companies and NGOs, at a ceremony Wednesday at the House of Spain in Rio.

All meetings in which participated the President of COATO.

The Rio +20 Summit, with the participation of official delegations from 180 countries and which are present more than 120 Heads of State and Government from around the world will end on Friday 22 with a possible agreement, which is anticipated by some to be insufficient and even disappointing.

Whereas for others it is considered as the only possibility.

But either one way or another, this document will be subject to detailed analysis and interpretation the coming weeks and months ahead.

The President of COATO participate on Friday, coinciding with the closing of the Official Summit in the presentation of the global UNION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY (UGS), which, driven from Brazil, many companies have joined and NGOs from several continents.

And pretending to be the answer and the counterpoint of concrete commitments from business and civil society in sustainable development and a green economy, to what is already anticipated to be insufficient and indefinite commitments official document of the Summit.

Source: COATO

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