Co-operatives have role to play in driving global economic sustainability

The UN International Year of Co-operatives closes in New York 19-20 November 2012 – watch the livestream : http://s.coop/beyond2012

ICA President, Dame Pauline Green, today declared a new era open for co-operatives.

The UN International Year of Co-operatives had provided the platform from which the global co-operative movement had re-defined its goals and strategy through a ratified plan of action, a blueprint for future growth, she said.

“The Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade is a framework which will take the global co-operative movement through to the end of the decade with a plan to see co-operatives grow as financially and environmentally sustainable businesses,” said the Director-General of the ICA, Charles Gould. “We have built a global strategy which positions co-operatives as the fastest growing business model by 2020.”

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