ESG

World Bank Pushes More Accessible Extractive Data Reporting

March 31, 2016

At the recent Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ("EITI") Global Conference, the World Bank released a report calling on countries to engage in reporting practices regarding the financial and other information they publish as part of EITI that make it more accessible for civil society and academia.
NGOs Seek Enforceable Limit on Aviation Emissions

March 30, 2016

A group of nongovernmental organizations labeling themselves the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation has called on member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organization to adopt enforceable standards requiring airlines to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and monitor such emissions on a flight-by-flight basis.
NGO Seeks Climate Reporting Requirements in Extractive Industries

March 30, 2016

Elisa Peter of the nongovernmental organization Publish What You Pay has called for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ("EITI"), which encourages reporting on the financial implications of extraction operations in developing countries, to expand its mandate to require social and environmental reporting by companies in the extractive industries.
NGO Pushes for Extractive Sector BHR Reforms

March 30, 2016

As the Canadian Government becomes chair of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, a set of guidelines aimed at furthering the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda in the extractive industry, the nongovernmental organization MiningWatch Canada has called on Canada to enhance reporting and grievance mechanism requirements under the Principles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apple Issues $1.5 Billion "Green Bond"

March 23, 2016

The Guardian reports that, amid pressure from nongovernmental organizations and others to fund the global environmental agenda and report progress, technology company Apple has announced that it has issued a "green bond" through which it will seek $1.5 billion for environmentally friendly projects.
France Requires Disclosure of Climate, Social Financial Risks

March 17, 2016

The Climate Law Blog at Columbia Law School reports that the French Government has issued a decree requiring institutional investors to publicize how the companies in which they invest report environmental and social information and to disclose risks caused by climate change in their investments.