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Activists Turn to “Climate Liability” Strategy
January 16, 2019
An article on the website Climate Liability News asserts that the year 2018 saw an “explosion” across the world of lawsuits demanding corporate compensation for alleged contributions to global warming and government action to force energy companies to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, including by using arguments in favor of “rights” against climate change.
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Canadian Lawmakers Seek Corporate Labor Reporting Mandate
January 15, 2019
Samantha Beattie reports that Canadian legislators have followed the trend of recent legislation in the UK and Australia by introducing a bill that would require businesses to file annual reports on steps they have taken to rid their global supply chains of forced labor.
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Airbnb Faces Blowback over Ban of West Bank Settlement Listings
January 11, 2019
Forbes reports that online rental company Airbnb is facing investigations and lawsuits following its decision to ban from its website listings for properties in Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank territory.
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Activists Eye “Attribution Science” as Climate Compensation Tool
January 11, 2019
Lawyer Stephanie Morton explains how campaigners on climate change are using an emerging field called “probabilistic event attribution science” to place various levels of blame on companies over their contributions to global warming with an eye to extracting resources from them to redistribute to alleged victims of their “climate impacts.”
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EU Council Agrees Position on Financial ESG Reporting
January 11, 2019
The Council of the EU recently agreed to a common position on requiring financial companies to disclose how they are integrating “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) impacts into their investment decisions and creating new benchmarks aimed at producing more information on the “carbon footprint” of investment portfolios.
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