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Academic Details French BHR Reporting Efforts

October 31, 2016

At a conference on business and human rights in Seville, Spain, Dr. Nadia Bernaz of the Middlesex University School of Law describes evolving efforts by French politicians to impose requirements on businesses in the country to report their efforts to reduce their human rights and environmental impacts in line with the global BHR agenda.
Survey Shows Complexity of Forced Labor Reporting

October 28, 2016

A recent survey describing corporate responses to UK legislation requiring companies to publicly report their efforts to end forced labor in their supply chains shows the complexity companies face in gathering data and developing "remedial action plans" to fulfill the goals of the legislation.
GRI Launches Standards for Corporate "Sustainability" Reporting

October 26, 2016

The Global Reporting Initiative has released its Sustainability Reporting Standards, a set of global standards that will provide an outlet for corporations responding to pressure from international organizations, governments, and activists to publicly report their social and environmental impacts and contributions to the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
NGO Rates Energy Companies' Climate Policies

October 26, 2016

The nongovernmental organization Union of Concerned Scientists has published a "Climate Accountability Scorecard" ranking climate-related policies of eight large energy companies it accuses of contributing to "disinformation" on the subject of global warming and calling on them to include climate risks in their communications to investors.
GRI Seeks Model for Integrated "Sustainability" Reporting

October 24, 2016

The Global Reporting Initiative has released a summary of the work done by its Corporate Leadership Group to develop a model companies might use to integrate information on their efforts to implement the global "sustainable development" agenda with their public reporting of other data.
Norwegian Exchange Requires "Sustainability" Reporting

October 20, 2016

In line with the Global Reporting Initiative's agenda to advance its corporate reporting guidelines among stock exchanges around the world, the Norwegian stock exchange Oslo Børs has issued guidance to companies on the exchange calling on them to use GRI's "sustainability" reporting framework, or a similar framework, to reveal their social and environmental impacts.
GRI Pressures Small Companies on "Sustainability" Reporting

October 19, 2016

Observing that most reporting on the implementation of the global "sustainability" agenda comes from large and multinational companies, the Global Reporting Initiative and the International Organisation of Employers have created guidance for "small and medium enterprises" to report how their operations contribute to sustainable development.
US Agency Investigates Exxon's Climate Pricing

October 13, 2016

The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether energy company Exxon sufficiently factors in the risk of global warming when pricing its fossil fuel-related projects.
GRI Report Calls for Business Monitoring of SDG Impacts

October 11, 2016

The Global Reporting Initiative and Business Call to Action have produced a report calling on governments to place pressure on businesses to monitor and report their impacts on the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help fulfill the Goals' comprehensive economic and social agenda.
EU Committee Calls for Strengthened Tax Disclosure Law

October 05, 2016

The European Economic and Social Committee has called on the EU to broaden its corporate tax transparency proposals to require more EU businesses to disclose the amount of tax they pay and to mandate corporate disclosure of a comprehensive list of their operations outside the EU.