Some of the greatest minds and movers in the field of investment will assemble at UNCTAD’s WIF 2010 to discuss how to promote sustainable investment and development in the new phase of globalization and take advantage of opportunities that could rise across the globe. This is how UNCTAD (www.unctad.org) announces their WIF 2010. Global-Arena will be present, and we think we can contribute to UNCTAD’s goals in two ways;
- Including sustainability indices in our economic parameters is already a set goal, and we want to discus how these parameters should be developed , for our global platform we need to be able to compare all countries and regions, supported by independant, trusted data.
Only then are we able to support our clients in descision making during location analysis
- Another aspect of supporting sustainable investment and development is to give developing and under-developped countries and regions a fair chance to compete for investment from abroad. We believe that if www.global-arena.com offers a comparisson on independant, trusted data between countries in every state of development, that will greatly increase the acces to FDI for the least developped countries, since that comparisson takes away that part in a risk assesment currently regarded as “the great unknown”
We want to take up the challenge to compare Mali to Finland and to Vietnam. To achieve this, we need the help of UNCTAD to research and create data sources of the same integrity as we currently use for Europe and USA.
We see it as our responsibility to support investment descisions with (standardized) sustainibility parameters (eg Carbon Footprint, sustainable development and innovation), and next to that offer every country acces to FDI via a fair comparison of their advantages and challenges.