Global Water Challenge

摘要: The Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 was the first major United Nations (UN) meeting with significant business participation. It was there that business began to learn to be a partner in the search for sustainable progress. And it was there that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and governments realized that business, previously seen by many as a force for unsustainable development, could be a powerful partner for sustainability." But it was not until the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development that multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development became a key focus of the international community. In particular, governments and the NGO community sought to engage the private sector more directly and more concretely at this summit.Multi-stakeholder, including public-private, partnerships cover a large spectrum of associations, ranging from ad hoc collaboration on a specific project to a full …