“The participation of the entire society, the government, the scientific community, the NGOs, and especially the business community is essential for us to be able to provoke a turning point in our consumption and production patterns. The company needs to be thought as part of society, engaged in the problems that affect all of us. (…) It is gratifying to note that the Latin American business sector already recognizes the importance of this new variable in order to prosper in a globalized economy. It is necessary to expand this private sector effort in order to transform concern with sustainability into an inseparable part of economic activity.”
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, sociologist and former president of the Federative Republic of Brazil