Stakeholder Capitalism

UN Agencies Launch Corporate "Playbook" on Climate Action

December 28, 2017

At a side event of the UN climate summit in Bonn, Germany, in November, a group of UN agencies urged business leaders to push their governments for more stringent commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and launched a "Climate Action Playbook" to guide businesses on how to ramp up their climate and "sustainability" commitments.
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.
OECD Praises Progress on "Preferential Tax Regimes"

December 07, 2017

In October, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued a press release touting the progress of its efforts to implement global rules on "preferential tax regimes" as part of an "international tax framework" that seeks to capture more corporate taxation in countries around the world.
UNGC Pushes Companies to Adopt, Fund SDGs

December 07, 2017

At the recent UN Global Compact (UNGC) Leaders Summit, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in September, the UNGC released publications guiding companies on how to embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in all of their operations and how to publicly report on their SDG efforts.
OECD Meeting Focuses on "Climate-Friendly" Tax Cooperation

December 05, 2017

The Fiji Times reports that, at a recent meeting in Brussels co-organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), national leaders from developing countries called for global cooperation on "climate-friendly tax policies" to help fulfill the "sustainable development" agenda.
OECD Promotes Regulation of Gender Equality

December 04, 2017

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has produced a "call to action" for governments around the world to strengthen progress on "gender equality goals," including eliminating the "gender wage gap" and "unequal sharing of unpaid work," through such policies as affirmative action and corporate reporting on pay by gender.
OECD Pushes for "Sustainable" Tourism Industry

December 01, 2017

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued recommendations in October calling on governments to place more pressure on their tourism industries to ensure they are "ecologically sustainable and socially inclusive."
Group Files OECD Complaint over Steel Union Treatment

November 30, 2017

Global industrial union group IndustriALL has filed a complaint with the OECD National Contact Point in Luxembourg over the alleged failure by a multinational steel producer to negotiate with one of IndustriALL's member unions and the producer's warning that it would fire employees who failed an alcohol and drug policy.
NGO Challenges NCP Decision on Asylum Center

November 29, 2017

The nongovernmental organization OECD Watch has filed the first-ever appeal of a decision of a National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to the OECD’s Investment Committee to challenge the Australian NCP's rejection of a complaint against a security company that operated an Australian asylum center.
NGOs: US NCP Should Have Sanctioning Power

November 27, 2017

In the lead-up to a global "peer review" process analyzing the effectiveness of the US National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, a group of nongovernmental organizations submitted a call for the US to strengthen the NCP by providing for sanctions against businesses that violate the OECD Guidelines.