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Last news: December 23, 2008 15:07:18

The Fifth Global Congress on Counterfeiting and Piracy 2-4 June in Cancun, Mexico, will discuss the rising tide of counterfeiting in Mexico, Central and South America. - [Read more]

Writing in the Polish Warsaw Business Journal, on the occasion of the UNFCCC in Poznan, ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban urged negotiators to bear in mind the inextricable link between climate change and trade and investment. Mr Sebban also highlighted the need for strong protection of intellectual property rights to ensure private sector investment in new technologies. - [Read more]

The ICC Corporate Economists Advisory Group and Commission on Financial Services and Insurance held a joint meeting on 25 November to discuss the current financial crisis and its implications. The meeting brought together business experts who provided accounting, credit agency, industry and regulatory perspectives on how to restore confidence in global financial markets. - [Read more]

The Macau Chamber of Commerce last month became the newest member of the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF). In addition, the chamber is the first ICC member from the region of Macau, thus growing its network to over 130 countries. - [Read more]

ICC’s Dispute Resolution Services has selected a record number of universities to face off in the 4th ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition in Paris on 7-12 February 2009. - [Read more]

As United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations intensify, ICC underscored during the last week of the UN climate change conference that business urgently needed clear rules and frameworks for the investments required to address climate change. - [Read more]

Yet again, ICC must register its disappointment and concern that publicly-stated goals for the Doha Round trade negotiations agreed by countries at heads of government level fail to be translated into reality. - [Read more]

To offer guidance on corruption in its many guises and assess new ways to combat it, ICC has today introduced a revised edition of Fighting Corruption, International Corporate Integrity Handbook. - [Read more]

A workshop featuring an interactive exchange of experience on the social and economic benefits of digital convergence has underscored how “light touch” government regulation is the best way to enable small- and medium-sized enterprises to make the most of new business models. - [Read more]

ICC yesterday hosted a side event during the UN climate change conference in Poznan where business leaders expressed their opinions on what is needed in a post-2012 framework agreement on climate change, in order to accelerate investment in clean technologies. - [Read more]

Business needs clear rules to invest in technology to curb the effects of climate change, Guy Sebban, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, said during the opening session of Poznań Global Business Day yesterday. - [Read more]

Business has shown support for the continuation of the multistakeholder Internet Governance Forum (IGF) beyond its mandate of 2010 in its current format. - [Read more]

ICC is honoring the occasion 60 years ago today, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was voted unanimously by the United Nations. - [Read more]

Boosting technological know-how in developing countries through better frameworks for education and training would help business to facilitate more rapid advances in clean technology, ICC told negotiators at the 14th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan. - [Read more]

ICC’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Louise Kantrow, led a business delegation of more than 200 private sector leaders to the United Nations Follow-up Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) held in Doha, Qatar from 29 November to 2 December. - [Read more]

To connect the five billion people without Internet access requires continued investment in infrastructures, open and competitive markets, and policies developed with input from all stakeholders, the Chair of Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS), Subramaniam Ramadorai, said at the opening of the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF) today. - [Read more]

ICC and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) are jointly staging a Global Business Day to give governments clear business insights and ideas to help them progress towards a workable climate policy framework. - [Read more]

World business is united in its call for a global post-2012 framework agreement to curb the effects of climate change, ICC said on the second day of the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). - [Read more]

African chambers of commerce met in the Ethiopian capital today to strengthen the continental chamber network, to lend greater support to the continent’s private sector and work more closely with chambers globally. - [Read more]

The southeastern European country of Montenegro will become the 66th country to join the ATA Carnet System on 1 December 2008. - [Read more]