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Paper: Business-led Reporting Schemes Are Ineffective
July 21, 2017
A group of academics has published a paper warning that the growing activist movement, beginning to take hold in the form of government regulation, toward business audits of their global supply chains to monitor and report environmental and human rights impacts is ineffective and merely serves as an "industry-led privatization of global governance."
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UNESCO, FIFA Push for “Sustainability” in Sport
July 21, 2017
Leaders from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) met to express mutual support for the UN’s “sustainable development” and women’s “empowerment” agendas.
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UN Report Calls for Transformation in Global Finance
July 21, 2017
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a report on green finance which calls for the transformation of the global financial system to push increasing amounts of capital into “green” investments that align with the UN’s sustainability agenda.
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NGO: Fund Africa's "Human Economy" Through Corporate Taxation
July 20, 2017
In advance of a recent World Economic Forum meeting in South Africa, the activist organization Oxfam called on African leaders to pursue "inclusive growth" by creating a redistributive economic approach focused on reducing economic inequality in part by clamping down on tax avoidance by multinational corporations.
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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.