Sustainable Development and Corporate Power to be Examined at Conference Board Environment and Sustainability Meeting April 24-25 in New York

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Sustainable Development and Corporate Power to be Examined at Conference Board

Environment and Sustainability Meeting April 24-25 in New York

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TO BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:

Sustainable Development and Corporate Power to be Examined at Conference Board

Environment and Sustainability Meeting April 24-25 in New York

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Apr. 11 -/E-Wire/-- Experts on the environment and sustainability will meet in New York to discuss business strategies for making products that accelerate the transition into sustainable development and appropriately address the increasing worldwide challenge to corporate power.

The Conference Board's 2001 Environment Conference: "Sustainable Development and Corporate Power -- Products as Change Agents" will take place April 24-25 at the Marriott Financial Center in New York City.

The meeting, held with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is the first ever corporate-sponsored and supported conference on corporate power in the context of sustainable development.

The conference is being presented in association with KPMG, Ford Motor Company, Collins & Aikman, CERES, INFORM, and Tomorrow magazine.

"The conference will focus on the corporate capacity to develop products that create competitive advantage while driving the shift to a more sustainable industrial culture," says Carl Frankel, Conference Program Director. "The meeting will arm EH&S;, environmental marketing and strategic planning executives, along with other corporate change agents, with tools to help them develop product strategies that support the sustainability trajectory."

"Global Power and the New Rules of Engagement" will be the focus of the opening keynote presentation by Gjoran Lindahl, ex-CEO of the Engineering Multinational ABB and currently Chief Advisor to Kofi Annan on the Global Compact, a United Nations Initiative to Accelerate Corporate Social Responsibility. Chuck Riepenhoff, Partner, Integrity Management Services at KPMG, will introduce Lindahl.

The luncheon address, "Product Is as Product Does -- How One Company is Building Its Sustainability Credentials Around an Innovative Product," will be delivered by Mac Bridger, CEO, Collins & Aikman.

The keynote address on the second day of the conference will be "Developing Products for the Poor," given by Stuart Hart, Professor of Business, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina.

A discussion on products and sector transformation will include Bjorn Stigson, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Cliff Bast, Global Manager, HP Environmental Strategies & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard, Jil Zilligen, Vice President, Environmental Initiatives, Patagonia, Sue Mecklenburg, Director of Environment and Business Practices, Starbucks, and Paul Gilding, President, Ecos. Corp.

"Making the Business Case" will be addressed by Eric Israel, Partner, KPMG, Dawn Rittenhouse, Director of Sustainable Development, Dupont, Jan Liessens, Director of Environmental Control, Janssen Pharmaceutical, and Gil Friend, President & CEO, Natural Logic.

"Delivering the Message" will be examined by Bob Massie, Executive Director, CERES & Chairman of Steering Committee, Global Reporting Initiative, Trygve Roed Larsen, Senior Vice President, Den Norske Veritas, Gary Mayo, Director of Environmental Affairs, Visteo, and Joanna Underwood, Executive Director, INFORM.

A session on products and inclusion will feature Scott Noesen, Director of Sustainable Development, Dow Chemical, Francois Kaisin, Director of Quality, Environment and Safety, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, Myles Standish, Sustainable Agriculture Manager for Unilever, and Stephen Viederman, Executive Director (Retired), Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation.

/NOTE TO EDITORS: Media are invited to attend the conference and can register by calling Frank Tortorici at [REDACTED-PHONE] or Carol Courter at [REDACTED-PHONE]. A copy of the program is available on the Conference Board's website, http://www.conference-board.org./

The Conference Board

Frank Tortorici of The Conference Board, [REDACTED-PHONE]

http://www.conference-board.org

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