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Google Case Shows Cost of Salary Reporting
August 09, 2017
Signaling the complexity and expense involved in complying with government reporting requirements, tech giant Google recently argued in a case launched by the US Department of Labor alleging "systemic compensation disparities" between male and female employees that it would be too timely and costly to comply with the government's broad request for salary records.
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India Gains Access to UN Climate Funding System
August 08, 2017
India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has achieved accredited status with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Green Climate Fund (GCF), under which it will receive global funding for qualifying projects that further GCF’s mission of limiting the impacts of global warming.
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Shell Announces Shift from Oil
August 08, 2017
Amid proliferating activist pressure and government policies implementing the global climate agenda, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden has announced that the company is planning for a shift from crude oil to natural gas and other alternative energies to help fulfill the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
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US Communities Sue "Carbon Majors" over Sea Level
August 08, 2017
Two coastal California counties and one California city have sued a group of oil, gas, and coal producers, claiming that these “carbon majors” conspired for decades to hide the negative environmental effects of fossil fuels and should be required to pay “for the current and future costs of adapting to sea level rises linked to climate change.”
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Research Warns of Chinese Foreign Coal Investment
August 07, 2017
Researcher Feng Hao warns that, despite the country's diplomatic noises in favor of embedding the UN's "sustainable development" agenda in its Belt and Road Initiative, China's companies are heavily invested in coal projects in countries that are involved in the massive Eurasian infrastructure project.
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