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EU Ministers Call for "Green" Asset Classification
March 26, 2018
EU finance ministers recently issued a statement calling for the inclusion of a "green" asset classification system, which would assist European investors in determining whether an investment would contribute to the global climate-change and "sustainability" agenda, in the EU's future "sustainable finance" strategy.
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IACHR Seeks Broad Policies Protecting Rights Defenders
March 26, 2018
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently published a report calling on countries in the Americas to develop a "comprehensive policy" on the protection of human rights defenders, including from "stigmatization" and "the accompanying disparaging discourse," from private actors including corporations.
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GRI Presses Companies on Gender Reporting
March 23, 2018
Marking International Women's Day, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) issued a press release calling on companies to include in reporting on their implementation of the "sustainability" agenda the ways in which they are addressing gender inequality and identifying gender parity in business as a major factor in achieving the global Sustainable Development Goals.
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NGO Offers up Data on Corporate Human Rights Impacts
March 23, 2018
Alex Guy of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) has published an article encouraging nongovernmental organizations and others to use BHRRC's wide-ranging data on corporate human rights and environmental impacts to pressure companies to implement the global business and human rights agenda.
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ILO Pushes Finance Industry to Address Climate Impacts
March 23, 2018
Craig Churchill of the International Labour Organization (ILO) reviews the partnerships with the financial-services sector the ILO is undertaking to address the impacts of global warming on poor communities, including by providing insurance and considering social and environmental factors in financing projects through "impact investing."