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Lawyers: Blockchain Can Help Companies Comply with UNGPs
January 31, 2019
Attorneys from the law firm Hughes Hubbard explain how blockchain technology could help businesses conform to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) by assisting in their efforts to perform “human rights due diligence” to examine the rights impacts of their complex, global supply chains.
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Singapore Releases Model Framework on Use of AI
January 31, 2019
The government of Singapore has published at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos a model framework containing guidance for companies on the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
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UN Body Develops Standards for Financial Review of Climate Impacts
January 31, 2019
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change explains the institution’s work toward developing harmonized, global standards for the financial industry to determine how investments in energy and transport projects are contributing to, or detracting from, the goals of the UN’s Paris climate accord.
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WEF, UN Initiative Promotes Global LGBTI Employment Standards
January 31, 2019
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have partnered with several large companies on an initiative promoting corporate implementation of UN standards on LGBTI inclusion in the workplace and the creation of “due-diligence frameworks” to ensure alignment with these standards.
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International Groups Build Humanitarian Investing Initiative
January 31, 2019
The World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the International Committee of the Red Cross have created a High-Level Group on Humanitarian Investing to promote public and private investments focused on long-term objectives in “fragile contexts” across the globe.
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