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Business Leader: G20 Should Set Collective Climate Regulations
July 19, 2017
BASF’s Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Business-20 (B20) Taskforce on Energy, Climate & Resource Efficiency, argues that the Group of 20 (G20) nations must set collective climate policies to avoid creating competitive disadvantages for businesses.
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Report Calls for “Due Diligence” in Natural Resource Extraction
July 19, 2017
Dr. Carolijn Terwindt and Christian Schliemann call for companies and governments to implement “due diligence” policies when funding natural resource extraction projects to and consider cutting their finance of such projects in cases of "repression" or "stigmatization" of human rights defenders.
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Human Rights Leaders Call for “Transformative” Policy Changes
July 19, 2017
Speakers at a recent event on human rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hosted by the Danish Institute for Human Rights called for the public and private sectors to incorporate human rights goals into their policies, including through corporate human rights impact assessments, “to unleash the transformative potential of the 2030 Agenda.”
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EU Companies Make Pledge Against Coal Plants
July 18, 2017
As businesses face pressure to help fulfill their country's ambitious commitments to limit global warming under the Paris climate pact agreed in 2015, national energy companies from across the EU have signed an agreement not to build any new coal power plants after the year 2020.
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Development Banks Seek Private Funds for SDGs
July 18, 2017
At a recent Global Infrastructure Forum in Washington, D.C., a group of leading multilateral development banks issued a joint statement pledging cooperation in funneling private investment toward the realization of the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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