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Workshop Drives Climate Advocacy Among Lawyers
January 19, 2017
The law school at King's College London recently hosted a workshop, in cooperation with the nongovernmental organization Advocates for International Development, considering the viability of climate change litigation and exploring what responsibility lawyers have to confront their corporate clients about the risks of global warming.
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NGO Pushes Scrutiny of "Modern Slavery" Statements
January 19, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Ethical Trading Initiative has called on companies to place their "Modern Slavery Statements," made under a recently passed UK law mandating corporate reporting on forced labor, in a "central registry" maintained by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre for scrutiny by civil society.
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NGOs Criticize "Voluntary" Measures in BHR Action Plans
January 19, 2017
A press release from the European Coalition for Corporate Justice on the Swiss, Italian, German, and US "national action plans" on implementing the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda laments that none of the plans relies on binding measures or provides for sufficient access to judicial remedy by alleged victims of BHR violations.
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GRI, IIRC Establish "Integrated Reporting" Group
January 19, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative and the International Integrated Reporting Council have formed a "Corporate Leadership Group on integrated reporting" to communicate with companies on how to navigate the "sometimes confusing landscape" of global corporate reporting standards by integrating their disclosure on financial and "sustainability" issues.
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GRI, UN Form Group on Corporate SDG Reporting
January 19, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative explains how it is forming a group of "leading businesses, reporting experts and data users" in cooperation with the UN Global Compact to develop principles of corporate reporting on the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and permit businesses to "show leadership in their SDG performance."
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