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UK Activists Call on Companies to Report Climate Risks
January 06, 2016
The Independent reports that, in light of the UN agreement on climate change reached in Paris in December 2015, a group of nongovernmental organizations and pension funds in the UK are calling for energy and other companies to do more to disclose to investors the potential risks to their profits and operations caused by government policies countering global warming.
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Businesses Offer Advice on Corporate Global-Warming Policies
January 06, 2016
Aman Singh, a vice president of communications and marketing firm Edelman, highlights how consultancies and similar firms are capitalizing on developments such as the recent UN climate deal by advising companies to implement often-complex and costly changes in their operations to make way for the "inevitability" of global warming and responsive measures.
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Paper Outlines US Corporate Lobbying on Human Rights
January 06, 2016
In a working paper, Professor Emilie Hafner-Burton and Heidi McNamara of the University of California, San Diego, highlight how US corporations are responding to increased pressure by global organizations and activists on the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda by feeding more funding into lobbying on human-rights legislation at the federal level.
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HRW Issues Guidelines for Construction Companies in Gulf
January 05, 2016
According to U.S. News and World Report, Human Rights Watch has issued guidelines for construction companies operating in Gulf Arab states to protect the human rights, including maximum working hours, overtime pay, and payment of recruiting fees, of migrant workers in the region.
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UN Working Group: Brazil Lags in BHR Implementation
January 05, 2016
At the conclusion of its recent visit to Brazil, the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") expressed concerns that Brazilian businesses generally were not aware of the UN's BHR agenda and that infrastructure projects were affecting the human rights of locals, calling in response for the government to proceed with plans to develop a BHR action plan.
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