Business & Human Rights

  • G20 Creates Platform to Push "Green" Investments

    January 25, 2017

    In partnership with the intergovernmental organization Global Green Growth Institute, the G20 group of countries has announced that it will move ahead with its GreenInvest platform to encourage "inclusive green investments" among financial institutions and to help drive financial regulations that incentivize funding of the UN's climate change agenda.

  • World Bank Pushes "Green Finance" Through Auction

    January 25, 2017

    Using taxpayer funding from Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US, the World Bank has completed its third "climate auction" - called the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation - offering a guaranteed price for credits to companies that invest in projects to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

  • WEF Meeting Pressures Businesses on Global Warming

    January 24, 2017

    Bloomberg reports that the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in Davos devoted 24 of its sessions to global warming and clean energy, in the WEF's most expansive focus yet on pushing businesses to adopt and implement the climate change agenda of the UN and environmental activists.

  • UNGC Outlines SDG Action Plan in 2017

    January 24, 2017

    In an annual letter to business participants in the UN Global Compact (UNGC) network, UNGC Executive Director Lise Kingo explains how her organization will work in 2017 to push businesses to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and announces that UNGC will begin collecting mandatory contributions from businesses in its network in 2018.

  • OECD Calls for Government Pressure on Drug Pricing

    January 24, 2017

    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a report calling on governments use law and regulations to "rebalance" the negotiating powers of drug consumers and manufacturers to force drug companies to lower the prices of high-cost products.

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