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WEF Panel Pushes Corporate "Sustainability" Assessments
November 20, 2017
At the international organization's recent Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted a panel at which contributors called on businesses to move beyond their core responsibility of maximizing profits by also taking into account "social and environmental metrics" in line with the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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WEF Launches Initiative on "For-Benefit" Organizations
November 20, 2017
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently announced the launch of the Fourth Sector Development Initiative to promote the growth of "for-benefit" corporations that go beyond the traditional profit-making objective to "take responsibility for the well-being of their stakeholders" and help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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WEF Initiative Calls for Deforestation-Free Industries
November 20, 2017
The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, a coalition of governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and others, has released a set of 10 principles aimed at transforming commodity supply chains in a number of industries to exclude products obtained through deforestation by the year 2020.
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WEF Summit Pushes Industry Action on SDGs
November 20, 2017
In September, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted a Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York to emphasize the need for "partnerships" between governments and industry to achieve the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and further the goals of the UN's Paris climate deal.
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UN Body Develops Rights Framework for Trade Deals
November 20, 2017
Dr. Diane Desierto of the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law explains how a recent General Comment from the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights seeks to embed international human rights law "in every step of States’ regulation of the conduct of business activities, trade, and investment," including in the negotiation of trade deals.
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