联合国秘书长潘基文在第三届全球契约峰会上的致辞（英文版）

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New York, 24 June 2010

Mayor Bloomberg,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Good Morning, Bonjour.

Welcome to the third Global Compact Leaders Summit.

A special welcome to you, Mayor Bloomberg – a great leader of a great host city, New York, a good friend of mine and a good friend of the United Nations. Thank you very much for your participation and your leadership. Like so many others here today, you are a true business visionary. Thank you for joining our effort to take the Global Compact to the next level.

Before I became Secretary-General of the United Nations, I saw the power of business up close.

As minister for foreign affairs and trade of the Republic of Korea, I saw how smart investment can bring both profits and social advancement in all parts of the world.

As a boy growing up in a war-torn country, Korea, I saw what business can do to help rebuild a country and transform an entire region.

Now as Secretary-General of the United Nations, I am delighted to have this opportunity to push the Global Compact forward to the next higher stage and equip it for its second decade.

I am eager to work with business? with each of you? to generate the benefits we know are possible – the benefits I have seen first-hand.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In its first ten years, the Global Compact has become the world’s largest and most ambitious initiative of its kind. Corporate sustainability is becoming a byword in companies across the world.

At first, the Compact was driven solely by morality. We asked businesses to do the right thing.

Morality is still a driving force. But today, the business community is coming to understand that principles and profits are two sides of the same coin.

This realization could not be happening at a better time.

Ours is an era of tectonic shifts in the global order. Wealth and economic power are shifting to emerging economies.

Major economies continue to cope with the greatest economic and financial crises in most of our lifetimes.

Business itself, in the aftermath of scandals and mismanagement, faces the need to build and renew trust.

The Global Compact can be just the vehicle we need to carry us forward? to sustainable growth? to markets that bring profits and social advancement at the same time.

I see four priorities ahead of us.

First is leadership.

Leadership of everyone present this morning.

It is incumbent on you, the participants and stakeholders in the Global Compact, to lead.

You are at the forefront of globalization. You can and must play a central role in sustaining the openness on which development and prosperity depend.

That means emphasizing sustainability across your operations and in your investment strategies.

It means inspiring others into a race-to-the-top.

And it means thinking differently about how and where we invest? thinking differently about creating markets of the future and creating opportunities for growth.

At the G20 Summit meeting this weekend, you are likely to hear leaders of the world stress the need for austerity and budget consolidation at a time of crisis.

I will argue exactly the opposite: that we can’t afford not to invest in the developing world. We all know that’s where the greatest need is; but that is also where some of the greatest dynamism is.

Global economic growth requires investment in the developing world. With official development assistance (ODA) under pressure, foreign direct investment is that much more important.

Second, we must heed the lessons of the financial crisis.

Businesses must move away from their devotion to short-term profits, which distorts both accounting and daily operations. The private sector must go further in embracing long-term value creation.

An ethical culture must be embedded into business practices. Distinctions between right and wrong cannot be ignored.

Third, we need business to support the Millennium Development Goals.

This is a blueprint that world leaders adopted for the harmonious prosperity and the development of the world at a time of the 2000 Millenium - the new millennium.

In our efforts to eradicate poverty, create jobs and control disease, ten years of experience has shown us what works – and what doesn’t work.

Our challenge now is to again scale up our commitment.

We have made that job easy for you at this Summit. Through a rigorous process of vetting and analysis, we have identified 15 partnership opportunities – 15 ways to move us toward the Millennium Development Goals.

They cover a wide range: hunger, disease, green energy, protecting girls from violence. They include our Joint Action Plan for Women’s and Children’s Health.

But here is what they share: each is ready to be scaled up now; and each has a powerful multiplier effect.

Let us remember: investments in the developing world are investments in growth everywhere.

That brings me naturally to the fourth priority: embrace and adopt new strategies and tools for this new era.

The Blueprint of Corporate Sustainability Leadership being launched at this Summit draws on a decade of experience and will be the cornerstone of our efforts as we move ahead. It contains 50 ways for companies to distinguish themselves.

My Special Representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie, continues his efforts.

We also have developed new frameworks for anti-corruption and environmental stewardship? new principles to guide business on women’s empowerment, social investment and children’s rights? a sustainability guide for supply chains? and guidelines for responsible practices in conflict areas.

These new resources, combined with the enduring power of the Compact’s ten principles, can help you attain higher levels of performance across the sustainability agenda.