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Companies Commit to BHR-based Supplier Labor Policies
September 01, 2017
Showing the expanding push for corporations to place pressure on their supply chains in support of global business and human rights (BHR) principles, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has announced commitments from five companies to include in their supplier agreements a "no fee" recruitment pledge for cross-border migrant workers.
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NGOs Seek Gender Perspective in BHR Treaty
September 01, 2017
A group of nongovernmental organizations has issued a statement supporting the inclusion of special protections for women in a universal, binding business and human rights (BHR) treaty under negotiation at the UN, including a requirement that corporations perform "gender impact assessments of planned and existing operations."
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Report Pushes Energy Industry Action on All SDGs
August 31, 2017
An "atlas" from the World Bank Group, UN Development Programme, and an international industry association describes how the oil and gas industry can mitigate its social and environmental harms while simultaneously contributing toward all of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Exxon Study Shows Danger of Climate Reporting
August 31, 2017
A study by Harvard University’s Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes highlights the pitfalls for companies of mandated public disclosure rules on social and environmental issues, asserting that ExxonMobil misled the public on climate change by publicly challenging climate science that it privately accepted as true.
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Chinese Government Promotes Green Financing
August 31, 2017
The Chinese government is seeking to expand the country’s "green finance" sector in order to pursue “sustainable growth" and fulfill commitments the country made to limit its greenhouse gas emissions under the UN's 2015 Paris climate deal.
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