San Francisco Hopes to Build U.N. Climate Center at Contaminated Shipyard. By Jason Dearen, AP, July 30, 2009. "Mayor Gavin Newsom and the United Nations are eyeing a former naval shipyard contaminated by radiation, heavy metals and other industrial toxins as the future site of a sprawling new green technology complex and climate change think tank. The proposal would turn a section of the Hunters Point Shipyard, one of the most polluted places in the nation according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, into a U.N. Global Compact Center meant to help solve the world's pollution dilemmas and foster clean tech business. The city hopes to start construction on the center in 2011 and open its doors in 2012. But the project faces many hurdles before it can be realized, including the completion of a complex environmental cleanup, the approval of the city's Board of Supervisors and finding investors." U.N. Global Compact: "A strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere... The UN Global Compact enjoys the support of the UN General Assembly and has additionally been recognized in a number of other inter-governmental contexts, including by the G8. On 5 December 2007, the UN General Assembly renewed and expanded the mandate of the Global Compact Office, the UN office that supports the initiative, in its Resolution Towards a Global Partnership."
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