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Environment Ministers Issue Anti-pollution Declaration
December 14, 2017
Member-state environment ministers issued a first-ever declaration at a meeting of the UN Environment Assembly, pledging to combat pollution via a variety of strategies, including by “moving societies towards sustainable lifestyles based on a circular economy [and] promoting fiscal incentives to move markets.”
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Companies Increasingly Adopt Climate-Related Disclosure Guidelines
December 14, 2017
237 companies worldwide have declared their support for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, which has developed a set of voluntary recommendations for companies to disclose information relevant to the future effects of climate change on financial investments.
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OECD Pushes Bank to Cut Carbon Funding
December 13, 2017
According to the website Climate Liability News, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) responded favorably to a complaint from four nongovernmental organizations calling on Dutch bank ING to measure and cut its contributions to companies that produce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Paper Seeks Canadian Push on Climate Disclosures
December 08, 2017
A policy brief published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation calls on Canadian authorities to implement the recommendations of the G-20 Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures by requiring companies to include global warming-related risks in their financial disclosures.
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Climate Commitments Fuel Emissions Lawsuits
December 08, 2017
An article in The Economist explains how the growing number of commitments by governments to climate change targets, including those made under the UN's Paris climate deal agreed in 2015, is fueling an expansion in "climate lawsuits" seeking to hold businesses and governments to account for their contributions to or failure to contain global warming.
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