ESG

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.
BHR Proponents Develop Reporting "Assurance Framework"

April 22, 2015

The nongovernmental organization Shift and consultancy Mazars have published an article describing their development of an "assurance framework" that will consider whether businesses' human rights reporting efforts are consistent with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR").
NGO Pushes Companies on Coal Use and Human Rights

April 13, 2015

Pushing the link between climate change and human rights as advocated at the UN and among climate activists, the nongovernmental organization Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has publicly contacted 20 companies regarding their generation of energy through "sub-critical coal."
Guardian Seeks Shift to "Socially Responsible" Investments

April 13, 2015

Neil Berkett of the Guardian Media Group ("GMG") details how GMG has recently sought to implement the UN's social and environmental agenda and is now planning to divest from fossil fuels in order to combat global warming.
NGOs Applaud EU Committee Vote on Conflict Minerals

April 08, 2015

A group of nongovernmental organizations are praising the European Parliament's Development Committee for voting in favor of binding restrictions on European companies' use of "conflict minerals" from Africa and seeking to force companies to report how they avoid using these minerals in their supply chains.
Oxfam Calls for Further EU Measures on Tax Avoidance

April 01, 2015

Blaming corporations that pursue tax avoidance measure for "extreme inequality" in the world, Oxfam has published a report pushing the EU to adopt further measures to require more transparency from companies and more cooperation among member states to limit company tax avoidance.
NGOs Announce Collaboration on Environment Reporting

March 11, 2015

The nongovernmental organizations GRI and CDP have announced that they are harmonizing their reporting guidelines to more effectively pressure companies to counter climate change in their operations using a joint framework.
Framework Seeks Broad Corporate Human Rights Reporting

February 25, 2015

The nongovernmental organization Shift and the accountancy firm Mazars have published the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, which calls for companies to publicly report their actions on a broad range of issues relating to the international business and human rights agenda.
NGO Calls for EU to Expand Conflict Minerals Regulations

February 25, 2015

The nongovernmental organization the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations has published an article calling for a "radical" expansion of the EU's corporate reporting regime on "conflict minerals" to include the sourcing of a number of minerals from regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
GRI Seeks Use of Guidelines for EU Reporting Initiative

February 11, 2015

The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has recommended that businesses use GRI's previously developed "G4 Guidelines" to comply with new requirements under EU law to report the social and environmental impacts of their operations.