Read my retirement announcement on the Alliance\u2019s web site.<\/a><\/p>\nIn 2009 together we promised radical change. We have made good on that promise and built significant added value for our member co-operatives. We have enhanced our representational role at global level beyond recognition, and now produce annual global statistics for the movement that are used by decision-makers across the world. We have a global strategy: The Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade that has received worldwide recognition, huge membership engagement, and is core to national co-operative strategies in many countries. We have successfully launched a global marque that is already being used in 98 countries.<\/p>\n
One of the objectives set out in the Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade is for the co-operative enterprise model to become a recognised leader in sustainability by 2020. Already co-operatives are asserting themselves as sustainability pioneers. In Europe Scandinavian co-operatives have been named among the most sustainable brands. More on this in the eDigest.<\/p>\n
Co-operatives now have a voice among global business leaders. This month I joined a delegation of representatives from the Alliance for the B20 meeting at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. The Alliance will be represented again at a B20 conference organised by the Turkish Presidency in September and we will continue to work to have co-operative specific recommendations included.<\/p>\n
Dame Pauline Green<\/p>\n
President<\/p>\n
International Co-operative Alliance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear fellow co-operators, It is with the greatest regret that I write to tell you that I have made the decision to retire from the role as President of the International Co-operative Alliance to take effect at the closing of the General Assembly of the Alliance in Antalya, Turkey on the 13th of November this year. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":235484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238415,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238103\/revisions\/238415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}