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NGO: Investor Suits Take away Philippines Sovereignty
June 09, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Transnational Institute has published an article asserting that the signing of trade agreements by the Philippines that include investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms give the mining industry control over the country's environmental policy.
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UNGC, GRI Sign Renewed Partnership on Sustainability
June 09, 2016
The UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative have signed a renewed memorandum of understanding that focuses on partnership between the organizations on pushing companies within their networks to implement and report their progress in advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Airline Association: Emissions Tax Will Cost Customers
June 08, 2016
International Air Transportation Association Director General Tony Tyler has confirmed that consumers will have to bear the costs of a decision the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization will likely make this fall to seek a tax on airlines to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of their airplanes.
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Academic Seeks International Corporate Criminal Liability
June 07, 2016
At a recent presentation at Copenhagen Business School, Dr. Nadia Bernaz of Middlesex University School of Law in London called for the extension of international legal doctrine providing for individual criminal liability to be extended, through a binding international legal instrument, to corporations.
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ETI Publishes "Living Wage" Guidance for Supply Chains
June 07, 2016
The Ethical Trading Initiative, a network of companies, trade unions, and nongovernmental organizations, has published guidance for businesses on how to support a "living wage" in their supply chains in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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