Business & Human Rights

  • NGO Spotlights Company Records on Fossil Fuel Finance

    April 29, 2015

    The nongovernmental organization Asset Owners Disclosure Project has identified and ranked finance companies around the world in light of what the Project views as their records on responding to climate change.

  • BSR Outlines Strategy to Push Businesses on Climate Change

    April 29, 2015

    The nongovernmental organization Business for Social Responsibility ("BSR") has released a report describing its strategy to push companies in its network and beyond to advance the UN's agenda on responding to climate change.

  • NGO Sets out Investment Strategy on Climate Change

    April 29, 2015

    The nongovernmental organization The Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change has produced a guide for investors that pushes environmental activists' divestment campaign by advising financiers to review the effect of the UN's climate agenda on their portfolios and to reduce their "carbon exposure."

  • NGO: U.S. NAP Should Include Security Contractor Principles

    April 29, 2015

    The nongovernmental organization NomoGaia has called on the U.S. Government to include in its National Action Plan ("NAP") on business and human rights a requirement that security contractors agree to a set of global principles and publicize their assessment of their potential human rights impacts.

  • UN Calls for Use of Trade to Develop "Green Economy"

    April 28, 2015

    The UN Environment Programme and the think tank The International Institute for Sustainable Development have released a handbook calling for countries to use international trade as a tool to advance the UN's environmental and sustainability agenda.

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