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GRI Pushes Small Businesses to Report on "Sustainability"
February 08, 2018
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has issued a press release explaining how its Competitive Business Program trains and coaches small and medium-sized enterprises in a set of developing countries how to publicly disclose their impacts on the global "sustainable development" agenda.
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London Business School Plans Institute for Social Issues
February 07, 2018
Highlighting pressure from international organizations and nongovernmental groups on businesses to embrace the global "sustainability" agenda, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that the London Business School is setting up an institute to "harness the power of business" to solve social problems in developing countries.
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EU Report Proposes Measures for "Sustainable" Investments
February 07, 2018
A report from the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance proposes EU measures for encouraging investments from the financial system to fulfill the UN's "sustainable development" agenda, including through EU standards for such "sustainable" investments and investor disclosures on how sustainability factors into their decision-making.
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UN Initiative Pushes for Business Action on Oceans
February 07, 2018
The UN Global Compact has launched a Business Action Platform for the Ocean to "develop a business leadership framework focused on the growth, innovation and sustainability of the ocean" and pressure businesses to contribute to the achievement of UN "sustainable development" targets in this area.
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UN Report Highlights New Markets for SDG Fulfillment
February 06, 2018
The UN Global Compact has released a 2018 Global Opportunity Report with consultancy DNV GL and advisory group Sustainia pushing for business activity in 10 ten new markets to advance fulfillment of the comprehensive set of targets contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).