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Letter: U.S. Should Require Business Climate Reporting
April 22, 2015
Reflecting pressure from activist groups to divest from fossil fuels, a letter from a group of institutional investors has called on the Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Jo White to require energy companies to report the impact of climate change on their business models.
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UN Pushes Sustainability Agenda Among Gulf Businesses
April 22, 2015
The UN Global Compact ("UNGC") and the nongovernmental organization The Pearl Initiative recently held an event in Dubai seeking to press businesses in the Gulf Region to join the UNGC and promote the organization's global sustainability agenda.
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UN Seeks Report from Stock Exchanges on Sustainability
April 22, 2015
The UN Global Compact is calling on stock exchanges in its Sustainable Stock Exchanges program to publish a Communication to Stakeholders demonstrating the level of their commitment to advancing the UN's "sustainability" agenda.
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NGOs Launch Swiss BHR Initiative
April 22, 2015
A new Swiss organization called the Responsible Business Initiative has announced that it will push Switzerland to require corporate due diligence on issues relating to the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and to provide for liability of corporations that violate BHR standards abroad.
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Legal Professionals Develop Principles on Climate Change
April 22, 2015
An international group of judges, legal academics, and others recently developed the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations, which would require governments and businesses to adopt a broad swath of policies aimed at countering global warming, regardless of cost.
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