Country representatives participate in immersion in the Amazon with sustainable approaches

Business Education for Climate Action

The program brought together leaders from more than 10 countries and took place in the city of Manaus

Manaus (AM) – With the theme “Business Education for Climate Action”, Fundação Dom Cabral brought together members of its International Advisory Board for the 15th Annual Meeting. The program brought together leaders from more than 10 countries and took place in the city of Manaus. Participants discussed how business schools around the world can train leaders capable of creating more sustainable approaches to the economy, business, organizations and society.

Through an immersive agenda in the Amazon, participants experienced experiences and held global discussions about climate change.

“The meeting was produced by an experience in a relevant territory in the Amazon and a collective of ideas on how academia, companies and the public sector can contribute to positive climate actions in favor of our planet”,

said Viviane Barreto, director of internationalization at FDC.

According to professor and director of the FDC Sustainability Center, Heiko Spitzeck, the meeting also contributed to raising awareness among leaders about the importance of a social perspective.

“It is not possible to save the forest if we do not generate income for the communities that live there. In ESG, the problem of E (environmental) is directly linked to the basis of S (social). So if we don’t create sustainable living methods for communities, it becomes difficult to protect the environment”,

pointed out the teacher.

“It was a very relevant experience for the Dom Cabral Foundation International Advisory Board to come to the Tumbira community, being the innovation and education center in sustainable production managed by FAS, the Sustainable Amazon Foundation. We had participants from Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa, and everyone had a very in-depth discussion about how the FAS experience can serve as an inspiration for the entire international debate on solutions for sustainable development. It was a great honor for FAS to receive a board with a very high standard of representation, qualification and, at the same time, Fundação Dom Cabral itself, which is one of the largest, most highly regarded executive education centers in the world”,

according to the general superintendent of FAS, Virgilio Viana.

About Fundação Dom Cabral

FDC is a 47-year-old Brazilian business school, which is among the best in the world and in 7th position among the executive education institutions participating in the Financial Times 2023 ranking of the English newspaper.

It offers a differentiated educational approach: UNI(CO), which creates consistent, continuous experiences with a positive impact on its three pillars of action: Executive, Academic and Social Education for people, organizations and the world. He manages to combine in the classroom: intelligence with affection, scientific rigor with applicability and performance with social progress, showing his way of doing education. Always following global transformations, its mission is to contribute to the sustainable development of society through education, training and development of executives, businesspeople and public managers.

Around 46 thousand professionals passed through the institution in 2022. Within the scope of Social Education, the FDC – Centro Social Cardeal Dom Serafim was designed to support young people in situations of social vulnerability, popular entrepreneurs, social organizations and their managers, through development and training. The school also has the Be Relevante portal, which democratizes access to proprietary content and relevant information about careers, management, business and positive impacts.

*With information from consultancy

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