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Roundtable Explores Tension Between BHR Agenda, Investment Deals
January 04, 2019
In September 2018, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (BHR) published a joint report on a roundtable they hosted exploring how to transform international investment agreements to better advance the BHR agenda in the area of “access to justice.”
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Microsoft Seeks Government, Business Action on Facial Recognition
January 04, 2019
President of Microsoft Brad Smith writes that governments must impose regulations on the development of facial-recognition technology, warning that the technology could “exacerbate societal issues,” and announces that his company is launching a framework of principles on facial recognition that could be applied across the tech industry.
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GRI Pushes for BHR-Focused Corporate Reporting
January 03, 2019
In a recent press release, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) described its ongoing efforts, including at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (BHR) in Geneva, to promote “sustainability” reporting as a tool to encourage corporate compliance with global BHR principles and establishment of BHR “due diligence” processes.
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Chinese, EU Institutions Seek Standardized “Green Finance”
January 03, 2019
During the recent UN climate summit in Poland, the China Society for Finance and Banking and the European Investment Bank published a new edition of a report calling for the development in China and the EU of mutually recognized standards for “green” financial instruments aimed at promoting investments in climate-friendly projects.
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UNGA Chief Prioritizes Anti-Plastics Action
January 03, 2019
In December, UN General Assembly (UNGA) President Maria Fernanda Espinosa launched a Campaign Against Plastic Pollution pushing countries to begin phasing out the production of “single-use plastics” including water bottles as a “priority” during her one-year term.
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