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WEF Panel Calls for Carbon Taxation
January 26, 2017
At its 2017 meeting, the World Economic Forum hosted former UN climate official Christiana Figueres and other contributors for a panel on the importance of establishing taxation around the world on greenhouse gas emissions to fulfill the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in 2015.
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ILO Chief: Build Economic Growth on Labor Rights
January 26, 2017
The Director-General of the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder has published an article calling on participants at the 2017 World Economic Forum gathering to pursue "internationally-accepted principles and rights" on social protection and labor rights as a basis for economic growth.
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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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