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UN Body Develops Standards for Financial Review of Climate Impacts
January 31, 2019
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change explains the institution’s work toward developing harmonized, global standards for the financial industry to determine how investments in energy and transport projects are contributing to, or detracting from, the goals of the UN’s Paris climate accord.
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WEF, UN Initiative Promotes Global LGBTI Employment Standards
January 31, 2019
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have partnered with several large companies on an initiative promoting corporate implementation of UN standards on LGBTI inclusion in the workplace and the creation of “due-diligence frameworks” to ensure alignment with these standards.
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International Groups Build Humanitarian Investing Initiative
January 31, 2019
The World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the International Committee of the Red Cross have created a High-Level Group on Humanitarian Investing to promote public and private investments focused on long-term objectives in “fragile contexts” across the globe.
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UN Working Group Calls for BHR Promotion in Davos
January 31, 2019
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (BHR) has called on government and business leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos to advance the “sustainable development” agenda by promoting BHR standards and human rights “due diligence” by companies around the world.
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NGOs: Companies Must Deny Face Surveillance Tech to Governments
January 31, 2019
A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a letter calling on tech company Microsoft to refuse to provide a face surveillance product it has developed, called Face API, to any governments, warning that government use of such technology will target “immigrants, religious minorities, and people of color in our communities.”
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