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Facebook Energy Pledge Aims to Fulfill UN Climate Agenda
September 04, 2018
Engadget reports on tech giant Facebook’s announcement that it will power its global operations with renewable energy by the end of the year 2020 and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent within that time frame, as part of a trend of ambitious climate commitments agreed by businesses since the signing of the UN’s 2015 Paris climate accord.
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ISO Publishes Standard for Measure “Carbon Footprint”
August 31, 2018
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new global standard to enable businesses to quantify, publicly report on, and reduce the level of their greenhouse gas emissions in compliance with the global agenda against climate change.
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UN Agents Applaud Penalization of Monsanto over Weedkiller
August 31, 2018
UN human rights mandate holders have welcomed the decision of a US jury to award $289 million in damages from agricultural products company Monsanto due to “potential causal relations” between its weedkiller and cancer, predicting the damages will place pressure on companies to protect a “wide range” of environmental and other rights.
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Researcher: Colombia Must Move to Binding BHR Commitments
August 30, 2018
Germán Zarama of the Institute for Human Rights and Business argues that, while Colombia has gone far in implementing the global agenda on business and human rights (BHR) through the country’s BHR action plan, it should go further by turning “voluntary” initiatives into binding BHR commitments for businesses operating in the country.
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GRI Pushes for First-Time Corporate “Sustainability” Reporting
August 30, 2018
A press release from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) illustrates how the organization, through a “kick-off service” and other modes of consultation, pushes companies around the world to publicly report on a broad array of social and environmental impacts.
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