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Global Energy Company, UN Partner on Fulfilling SDGs
August 15, 2018
The energy company Repsol has signed a deal with the UN Development Programme providing for a two-year collaboration to help support local communities in fulfilling the comprehensive social and environmental objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Academic Seeks BHR Implementation in Investment Agreements
August 15, 2018
Professor Surya Deva of the City University of Hong Kong writes that governments must ensure their international investment agreements comply with the business and human rights (BHR) and “sustainable development” agenda by conducting impact assessments, setting out BHR obligations of investors, and facilitating legal claims by alleged victims of BHR violations.
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Businesses, Governments Endorse Supply Chain Reporting
August 15, 2018
Business representatives and government officials attending the Bali Process Government and Business Forum in Indonesia agreed to promote a set of recommendations labeled “Acknowledge, Act, Advance” pushing for legal requirements on businesses around the world to publicly report on labor conditions in their supply chains.
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NGO Coalition Produces “Warning System” for Asian Development Bank
August 15, 2018
The Coalition for Human Rights in Development has produced an interactive map intended as an “early warning system” to be used by communities seeking to hold accountable the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for the human rights and environmental impacts of the projects the development bank is financing.
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NGO Group: Reinsurer’s Coal Policy “Lacks Consequence”
August 15, 2018
A global coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Unfriend Coal touts the influence of its pressure campaign on the announcement by Munich Re, the world’s second largest reinsurer, that it will stop insuring new coal-fired power plants and mines in rich countries but claims the move ultimately “lacks consequence” in the fight against climate change.
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