Business & Human Rights

  • UN, GRI Develop Guidance for Corporate SDG Reporting

    July 20, 2017

    As part of their Action Platform called "Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)," representatives from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the UN Global Compact convened in March in The Hague to collaborate on the formation of guidance for companies on how to publicly report their compliance with and contributions to the SDGs.

  • UN Body Seeks Chinese Infrastructure Compliance with SDGs

    July 20, 2017

    As part of the UN's prioritization of obtaining government and private sector support for its comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Economic and Social Council recently held a workshop in New York in which it pressed Chinese officials to explain how their massive infrastructure project the Belt and Road Initiative will contribute to the SDGs.

  • NGOs, UN Partner to Benchmark SDG Contributions

    July 19, 2017

    The WWF project Gold Standard and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are launching a "Gold Standard for the Global Goals" that will measure contributions from the public and private sectors toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and pressure businesses to help fulfill the UN's social and environmental agenda.

  • EBRD Signs Deal with UN Fund for Climate Finance

    July 19, 2017

    The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed an agreement with the UN's Green Climate Fund to expand public and private finance for projects across the Mediterranean, Central Asian, and Southeastern European regions aiming to lower carbon emissions and limit the impacts of global warming.

  • World Bank Chief Seeks Revamped Climate Finance

    July 19, 2017

    At the institution's spring meetings, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim warned of the failure of the Green Climate Fund to effectively combat the impacts of climate change and called for global leaders to develop a new system to funnel public and private finance to climate-friendly projects.

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