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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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UN Agency Calls for “Transformation” of World Food System
January 03, 2019
In December, Director-General of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva called for the “international community” to prompt a “transformative change in our food systems” to ensure proper nutrition around the world and a reduction in obesity.
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UN Committee Points to Expansion of “Climate Finance”
January 03, 2019
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Standing Committee on Finance recently found an ongoing expansion of “climate finance,” aimed at fulfilling the goals of the UN’s Paris climate accord, though UN officials warned that the financing of the environmental agenda needed to increase rapidly to achieve the UN’s environmental agenda.
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