{"id":2734,"date":"2014-12-01T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcsdh.hu\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2014-12-01T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:35:41","slug":"bcsdh-presents-action-2020-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcsdh.hu\/en\/news\/bcsdh-presents-action-2020-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"BCSDH presents: Action 2020 Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can business be a positive force to solve global environmental and social issues? We say: \u201cYES\u201d! \u2013 said Istv\u00e1n Salg\u00f3, President of our organization, on the event where BCSDH (Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary) launched the Action 2020 Hungary.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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With this sentence the business lunch started for local business leaders, where we introduced the unique Action 2020 Hungary program. The program was developed by BCSDH with the strong involvement of the CEO\u2019s of our member companies, who contribute to a significant part of GDP in Hungary, and more than 100 Hungarian scientific and civil experts. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201eThe level of unemployment among young people has almost reached 20%, 1.8 million tons of food are thrown away on an annual basis, global warming (which may reach 2\u00b0C by 2050) is already impacting Hungary, only 9% of surface water is of good quality and sustainable consumers make up only 10% of the population. These are just some of the reasons that companies thinking on a long are being called to action.\u201d \u2013 announced Istv\u00e1n Salg\u00f3, President of BCSDH.<\/p>\n

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Representing the government, Antal Nikoletti, responsible for International Economic Affairs at Ministry of National Economy of Hungary, appraised the program and underlined that priorities and goals of Action 2020 Hungary are aligned to the government\u2019s national strategic goals. He also appraised the work of BCSDH, as the cooperation of the members \u2013 who account for more than 25% of the Hungarian GDP \u2013 and the scientific and civil sector\u2019s experts to improve sustainable development, resulted in a really unique program.<\/p>\n

This Action 2020 program is unique because more than 60 scientific and civil experts were involved and engaged in identifying challenges and goals. Following this step, we discussed the experts\u2019 proposals with CEOs whose companies will have a key role to the success of the program.<\/p>\n

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The end result of the process was goal setting for the Action 2020 initiative. In the first phase with the involvement of stakeholders the most important social, environmental and economic facts, trends were identified, where the business sector will play a key role, over the next 6 years.<\/p>\n

Based on these BCSDH will be able to continue the work by identifying, developing and disseminating business solutions which contribute to the realization of Action 2020 Hungary goals.<\/p>\n

During the localization phase of the program and while setting the targets for Hungary we mainly considered the following factors:<\/p>\n