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GRI Seeks "Sustainability" Reporting on Supply Chains
July 31, 2017
In a recent article, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) explains how corporations should use its "sustainability" reporting framework to increase transparency among activists and others regarding the human rights and environmental impacts of their complex, global supply chains.
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GRI Launches SDGs Program in South Asia
July 31, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) South Asian hub and the Confederation of Indian Industry ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development have launched a two-year program pressuring businesses in the region to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout their supply chains.
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Reporting Initiatives Collaborate on "Sustainability" Agenda
July 31, 2017
Two major organizations that push corporate "sustainability" reporting, the Global Reporting Initiative and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, recently discussed their collaboration on initiatives allowing investors and a wide variety of other "stakeholders" access to information on companies' environmental and human rights impacts.
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EU Committee Seeks Approach to Taxing Sharing Economy
July 28, 2017
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) recently held a debate in which speakers expressed their concern that current tax rules are not appropriately taxing the sharing economy and in which an EESC agent proposed a "united taxation system in Europe" to ensure proper taxation of companies in this industry.
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UN Independent Experts Critique Peru on BHR
July 27, 2017
Following a 10-day visit to the country, a group of UN human rights mandate holders called on the Peruvian government to reform its handling of "social conflicts" related to business operations and called for "a new mechanism to protect human rights defenders" in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR).
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