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NGO Pushes Insurers to Cut Ties with Coal
August 04, 2017
Peter Bosshard of the environmental activist organization Sunrise Project writes that insurance companies must stop underwriting projects that support coal production to help achieve the goal of the UN's 2015 Paris deal to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius.
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Oil Company Shareholders Adopt Climate Reporting Measure
August 04, 2017
Showing the significant impact activist shareholders can have on business and human rights and climate policies at large companies, the California Public Employees' Retirement System has touted the passage by shareholders in Occidental Petroleum of its resolution requiring the energy company to report the impacts of climate change on its future business.
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NGOs: EU Must Address Foreign "Land Grabs"
August 04, 2017
A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a report asserting that EU institutions and member states have been complicit in their businesses' human rights-violating "land grabs" in foreign countries and calling on officials to address these problems through measures such as human rights impact assessments and an EU-wide mechanism to evaluate complaints.
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Research Funders Agree to WHO Reporting Rules
August 04, 2017
The UN has announced that major funders of medical research and nongovernmental organizations involved in such research have agreed to global standards issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) to publish the results of all clinical trials they fund or sponsor in a publicly available database.
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UN Pressures Tech Companies on SDG Contributions
August 04, 2017
The UN underscored its commitment to enlisting a broad array of businesses in its work toward achieving the social and environmental targets set out in its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by hosting an "SDG Action Event on Innovation and Connectivity" in New York pushing tech entrepreneurs to contribute to the comprehensive agenda.
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