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EIB Launches Sustainability Awareness Bond
June 04, 2018
The European Investment Bank (EIB) recently launched a Sustainability Awareness Bond to divert "trillions" of global investments into "social, green and sustainable projects" in pursuance of the UN's comprehensive social and environmental targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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EIB Seeks EU Prioritization of "Green" Mobility Financing
June 04, 2018
A report from the European Investment Bank (EIB) finds billions in financing shortfalls for "urban green mobility solutions," "low carbon vehicles," and "automated and connected road transport" and calls on EU institutions to spur expansive investment in the "sustainability" agenda.
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NGO Seeks Larger State Role in Minerals Due Diligence
June 01, 2018
Human Rights Watch has called for a more robust government role across the globe in forcing companies to comply with guidance from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on how to perform "due diligence" to address potential human rights abuses in their minerals supply chains.
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NGO Welcomes UN Agency's Shipping Emissions Targets
June 01, 2018
The nongovernmental organization WWF has applauded as "a good first step" targets set by the UN's International Maritime Organization to reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by the shipping industry by 50 percent by the year 2050 and an agreed ban of the transportation and use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.
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ILO Economist: Labor Rights Are Key to Income Equality
June 01, 2018
The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently published comments from ILO Senior Economist Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead describing an "urgent" role for European governments to facilitate collective bargaining to reduce income inequality across the region.
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