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NGO Rates Corporate Embrace of "Sustainability" Agenda
April 16, 2018
Environmental activist organization Ceres has published a report on its Roadmap for Sustainability assessing how over 600 US companies are positioned in achieving a set of global standards requiring the embrace of environmental and human rights goals in their operations and supply chains.
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NGO Seeks EU Sanctions for Corporate Tax Avoidance
April 13, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has called on EU institutions to "tackle" alleged tax havens within the bloc and create effective sanctions for external jurisdictions that it says are "fueling poverty and inequality" by failing to effectively tax corporations.
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NGO Praises EU's Global Pressure on Tax Policies
April 12, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has applauded the European Council for publishing commitments of blacklisted "tax havens" to improve their allegedly unfair tax systems in response to EU demands for these countries to align their tax policies with European corporate and individual tax standards.
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NGO Sues to Restrict Shell's Oil and Gas Projects
April 11, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth Netherlands has announced a lawsuit against Shell seeking to impose court-mandated "climate targets" on the energy company that would restrict its ability to extract and use fossil fuels in its operations to limit global warming.
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NGO Praises EU Pressure on National Tax Policies
April 10, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has applauded the European Commission for "naming and shaming" EU members that have "aggressive" corporate tax policies and for announcing the ways in which countries outside the bloc must reform their tax systems to be removed from an EU blacklist sanctioning them for failing to collect a "fair" share of taxes.
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