GLOBE™ 2006 Biennial Trade Fair & Conference on Business & The Environment

Over the past decade, the GLOBE™ Series has emerged as one of the most well-known and prestigious business and environment events in the world. An international crossroads and marketplace, the GLOBE™ Series serves as an ideal platform for innovators to showcase their capabilities in environmental management and technology and explore the business opportunities inherent in solving environmental challenges. GLOBE™ biennial events bring together participants from across the world to address issues that lie at the heart of sustainable development and environmental management, while generating new business opportunities.

GLOBE™ 2006 will host nearly 10,000 participants, 2,000 conference delegates, 400 exhibits, 200 speakers and dozens of international delegations. Join participants from over 70 countries in Vancouver, Canada from March 29th to March 31st, 2006 to explore the issues that lie at the heart of corporate sustainability, global energy and environment priorities, emerging environmental markets and the future of sustainable urban development.

GLOBE™ 2006 Event Themes

Corporate Sustainability
Leading experts will provide insights on the new systems and tools that will help corporations
maximize the benefits of being environmentally responsible.

Energy And Environment
Discuss emerging priorities for energy efficiency, alternative energy technological development and secure energy supply; realistic strategies for emission reduction and credit trading initiatives; and how to identify and seize the business opportunities accompanying the new energy era.

Building Better Cities
As urban centers fast become hot spots of sustainable development, GLOB™E 2006 is the place where leading planners, architects and urban design specialists explore green building products and technologies, sustainable construction systems, eco-industrial networking solutions, urban transportation systems and alternate technology vehicles.

Financing and Environmental Market Opportunities
Learn how corporations can convert their ingenuity and innovations into profits by tapping into sources of funding and capitalizing on emerging market opportunities. Leaders in the field will examine the most promising growth markets for environmental goods and services, including international opportunities, as well as discuss proven strategies for secure funding.

GLOBE™ 2006 Trade Fair
Over 400 leading technology companies from Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia will be displaying their latest environmental technologies and solutions at GLOBE™ 2006. You will see leading-edge exhibitors from a variety of sectors, including: alternative energy, air quality management, water supply and waste water, climate change, energy efficient vehicles, fuel cell technologies, green building products and technologies, energy efficiency, pollution prevention, waste management and recycling, sustainable construction and urban environmental management.

Following the overwhelming success of GLOBE™ 2004, GLOBE™ 2006 promises to be an invaluable opportunity for dialogue and partnerships, building on the GLOBE™ standard of excellence as North America’s pre-eminent conference and trade fair on the business of the environment.

GLOBE™ 2006 Application Form


Globe Foundation

The GLOBE™ Foundation of Canada is a private, non-profit foundation created in 1992 to help environmental firms, corporate environmental managers, and financial institutions capitalize on international opportunities in the business of the environment.

The GLOBE™ Foundation - an acronym for Global Opportunities for Business and the Environment - through a number of initiatives, works towards contributing to Canada's image as a leading source of innovative environmental technologies, a key player in the rapidly expanding global environmental marketplace, and an international champion of environmental business.

GLOBE's primary mandate is to foster the development of the business of the environment and to promote the application of business solutions (environmental technologies and services) to global environmental problems.

By creating successful partnerships with key government agencies, industry associations, international organizations and companies from around the world, GLOBE™ supports the fundamental rationale that helping to facilitate business opportunities as a means of solving environmental problems results in a win/win outcome for everyone; proving that it is possible to create economic growth and protect the environment.