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UN Report Lists Corporate Sustainability "Opportunities"
January 26, 2017
The UN Global Compact and partners have released a 2017 Global Opportunity Report as a counterpart to the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report to emphasize how businesses should use the advancement of "disruptive technologies" to help fulfill the UN's sustainable development agenda.
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NGOs Criticize World Bank Agriculture Plan
January 26, 2017
The Community Alliance for Global Justice has published a joint letter to the World Bank President "denouncing" the Bank's "Enabling the Business of Agriculture" project for focusing on free market agricultural reforms to encourage the expanded production of food in African countries.
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NGO Leader Pushes Corporate Tax as "Moral" Issue
January 25, 2017
The Guardian reports that, on a panel at the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Executive Director of Oxfam International Winnie Byanyima called for governments to consider corporate taxation a moral matter and ensure businesses contribute their "fair share" to the fulfillment of the global economic, social, and cultural "human rights" agenda.
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NGO: EU Must Rein in UK on Corporate Taxes
January 25, 2017
Alex Cobham of Tax Justice Network writes that the EU institutions should use the occasion of Britain's exit from the bloc to rein in Britain's status as a corporate "tax haven" by conditioning the rights of UK banks to operate in the EU on complying with EU regulatory standards and by "blacklisting" the UK in trade if it seeks to lower corporate tax rates.
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UN Launches "Green" Digital Finance Initiative
January 25, 2017
As part of its efforts to divert global investment funds toward climate-friendly projects, the UN Environment Programme and a Chinese financial services provider have launched a Green Digital Finance Alliance that aims to promote global "green finance" for the UN's sustainable development agenda and to encourage climate-friendly lifestyles in China.
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