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Development Banks Make Push for Tobacco Tax
January 09, 2018
The World Bank Group has announced that, as part of the development bank's global taxation guidance and campaign against tobacco, it is working with the International Monetary Fund to produce a Tobacco Taxation Module pushing governments to "design, enact, administer and monitor tobacco taxation policies" that will discourage tobacco use.
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UNGC Pushes for Corporate Ambition on "Impact Assessments"
January 09, 2018
A year-end statement from the Executive Director of UN Global Compact (UNGC) Lise Kingo reviews the UNGC's efforts in pressuring businesses to comply with the global human rights agenda and calls on companies to step up their performance of human rights impact assessments to ensure they are protecting rights "across the full spectrum of business activities."
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OECD Pressures Canada on Action Against Fossil Fuels
January 09, 2018
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued an Environmental Performance Review for Canada that pushes the country's government to increase taxes on fossil fuel use and coordinate "carbon pricing" systems to impose higher costs on energy companies that fail to comply with the global agenda against climate change.
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NGO Publishes Guide on "Socially Responsible" IT Procurement
January 09, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Green Electronics Council has produced global guidance for public and private institutions on procuring information technology (IT) products "from companies that are improving the social responsibility of their supply chains," including by forcing suppliers to implement the global labor and human rights agenda in their production processes.
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Corporate Initiative Counters Climate Lawsuits
January 09, 2018
The Washington Examiner reports that the National Association of Manufacturers has announced a new legal initiative, called the Manufacturers' Accountability Project, through which it will counter litigation from activist groups and government officials pushing a broad new theory of "public nuisance" to sue manufacturers for their alleged contributions to global warming.
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