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Activists Use Business Tactics to Push Climate Agenda
March 29, 2016
An article on E&E Publishing demonstrates how activists seeking to further the UN's agenda on climate change have been using shareholder resolutions and pressure on financial companies over energy corporations in their stock portfolios to push businesses to limit their involvement in fossil fuels and to outline their efforts to prevent global warming.
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GRI Partners with Tech Consultancy on Sustainability Reporting
March 29, 2016
The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has announced that it is partnering with technology consulting company Tata Consultancy Services to advance the use of "big data" in corporate reporting on environmental and social information to help advance the global agenda on sustainability.
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GRI Promotes Sustainability Reporting in Asia
March 28, 2016
The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") is hosting a meeting in Manila to encourage political and business leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ("ASEAN") to push, through both voluntary and regulatory action, corporate reporting on the implementation of the UN's sustainable development agenda.
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GSSB Announces Consultation on Sustainability Standards
March 28, 2016
The Global Sustainability Standards Board ("GSSB"), created by the Global Reporting Initiative, has announced that it will open consultation in the coming months on its development of a set of global business reporting standards updating sustainability guidelines to take into account the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
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Study Considers BHR Risks in Mining
March 28, 2016
As nongovernmental organizations increase pressure on energy and mining companies to adopt the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda, a study prepared by the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law considers various categories of BHR risks in the mining sector.
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