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LOCATION:Pullman Hotel\, Aerocity\, New Delhi\, India
SUMMARY:3rd International Convention on Sustainable Trade and Standards (IC
 STS) 
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Jointly organized by the Quality Council of India and the UNFSS
 *\, the 3rd International Convention on Sustainable Trade and Standards ai
 ms to bring together experts and practitioners to discuss innovative ideas
 \, best practices\, policies and underlying themes for highlighting the pi
 votal role played by sustainability standards as an enabler for sustainabl
 e development. This event will foster discussions on the drivers that will
  help in improving sustainability and effectively integrating Indian busin
 esses in global value chains.\n\n \n\nObjectives\n\n\nGlobal Knowledge Sh
 aring: Presentation of learnings from stakeholders across the globe to em
 phasize the pivotal role of organizations in fortifying global sustainabil
 ity governance through tools like Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS)
 .\nVSS Progress Evaluation: An assessment of the present VSS status globa
 lly and its future trajectory across various sectors and regions.\nStrengt
 hening Regional Cooperation: Discussion on harnessing existing frameworks
  to bolster regional collaboration in the context of VSS.\nScheme Owners
 ’ Engagement: Interaction with scheme owners to glean insights into the
  principles steering industry/NGO-driven VSS.\nCorporate Governance Integr
 ation: Exploring how corporate governance can integrate with public polic
 y instruments.\nVSS and GVCs: Understanding the role of VSS in guiding en
 vironmental and social facets in Global Value Chains (GVCs).\nEnhancing Qu
 ality Ecosystem: Positioning VSS as the rudder to navigate and enhance th
 e quality ecosystem.\n\n\n \n\n*The United Nations Forum on Sustainabilit
 y Standards (UNFSS) is a forum of 6 UN agencies- ITC\, FAO\, UNEP\, UNIDO\
 , UNCTAD\, and UNECE\, with UNCTAD as the secretariat.\nhttps://unfss.org/
 \n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/3rd-internation
 al-convention-sustainable-trade-and-standards-icsts
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DTSTART:20231103T020000Z
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LOCATION:Pullman Hotel\, Aerocity\, New Delhi\, India
SUMMARY:3rd International Convention on Sustainable Trade and Standards (IC
 STS) 
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Jointly organized by the Quality Council of India and the UNFSS
 *\, the 3rd International Convention on Sustainable Trade and Standards ai
 ms to bring together experts and practitioners to discuss innovative ideas
 \, best practices\, policies and underlying themes for highlighting the pi
 votal role played by sustainability standards as an enabler for sustainabl
 e development. This event will foster discussions on the drivers that will
  help in improving sustainability and effectively integrating Indian busin
 esses in global value chains.\n\n \n\nObjectives\n\n\nGlobal Knowledge Sh
 aring: Presentation of learnings from stakeholders across the globe to em
 phasize the pivotal role of organizations in fortifying global sustainabil
 ity governance through tools like Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS)
 .\nVSS Progress Evaluation: An assessment of the present VSS status globa
 lly and its future trajectory across various sectors and regions.\nStrengt
 hening Regional Cooperation: Discussion on harnessing existing frameworks
  to bolster regional collaboration in the context of VSS.\nScheme Owners
 ’ Engagement: Interaction with scheme owners to glean insights into the
  principles steering industry/NGO-driven VSS.\nCorporate Governance Integr
 ation: Exploring how corporate governance can integrate with public polic
 y instruments.\nVSS and GVCs: Understanding the role of VSS in guiding en
 vironmental and social facets in Global Value Chains (GVCs).\nEnhancing Qu
 ality Ecosystem: Positioning VSS as the rudder to navigate and enhance th
 e quality ecosystem.\n\n\n \n\n*The United Nations Forum on Sustainabilit
 y Standards (UNFSS) is a forum of 6 UN agencies- ITC\, FAO\, UNEP\, UNIDO\
 , UNCTAD\, and UNECE\, with UNCTAD as the secretariat.\nhttps://unfss.org/
 \n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/3rd-internation
 al-convention-sustainable-trade-and-standards-icsts
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