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GRI Calls for Companies to Report on Poverty Alleviation
January 17, 2018
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published a paper containing recommendations on how businesses should include information regarding their efforts to alleviate poverty in public reports on their contributions to the "sustainable development" agenda.
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EC Adopts Regulatory Strategy for Plastics Industry
January 17, 2018
The European Commission (EC) has adopted an EU-wide "strategy on plastics" that will seek to transform the plastics industry in Europe to encourage a "circular economy" and restrict the creation of "one-use plastics" as part of the fulfillment of the global sustainable development agenda.
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Governments Respond to EU Pressure on Corporate Tax
January 17, 2018
Politico reports that the EU's Economic and Financial Affairs Council is planning to move eight countries from the bloc's tax haven "blacklist," under which they are subject to restrictions on financing, to a less-restrictive "graylist" due to their recent commitments to comply with global standards on corporate and other taxation.
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Australian Companies Face Legislative Push for Labor Reporting
January 16, 2018
An article in The Sydney Morning Herald highlights the concerns from some retail businesses regarding the scope of and penalties contained in a proposal for an Australian law that would require large companies to publicly report their efforts to rid their global supply chains of forced labor.
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UN Agent Critiques Australian Delay of BHR Action Plan
January 16, 2018
The Chairperson of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (BHR) has published a letter to Australia's UN office in Geneva expressing disappointment regarding the Australian government's decision not to develop a "National Action Plan" on the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on BHR at this time.
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