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NGO Calls out Competitive Corporate Tax Jurisdictions
December 28, 2016
Signaling increasing pressure from activists to use businesses as a funding source for their economic, social, and cultural rights agenda, a report from nongovernmental organization Oxfam lists several European countries among the jurisdictions with the "most damaging" corporate tax policies.
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Bloomberg, Carney Tout Climate Disclosure Report
December 21, 2016
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney have published an article praising the recommendations of a taskforce of the G20 group of countries' Financial Stability Board pushing for global corporate disclosures on the financial impacts of climate change.
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GRI Pressures Businesses on Anti-Poverty Initiatives
December 21, 2016
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced a new project, funded by the UK and Swedish governments, to determine how ramped-up business reporting standards can produce data that would help GRI and other stakeholders pressure companies to do more to alleviate poverty in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Microsoft Launches BHR Education Program
December 21, 2016
As part of its announcement of an updated "global human rights statement" on how it plans to contribute to the business and human rights (BHR) agenda, the technology company Microsoft launched a partnership with UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the nongovernmental organization Humanity United to "embed" BHR issues in business education.
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OECD Seeks Taxation, Offsets to Promote Biodiversity
December 20, 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a report calling on governments to reform their tax systems and impose compensation requirements to discourage business activities that "damage nature" and have a negative impact on biodiversity.
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