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UN Forum Presses Asian Companies on SDGs
December 12, 2016
At a recent Responsible Business Forum in Singapore, the UN Development Programme Director for the Asia-Pacific, Haoliang Xu, highlighted UN pressure on companies to contribute to the organization's "sustainable development" agenda by calling on Asian businesses to ramp up efforts toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and combating global warming.
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EU Requires Pension Funds to Consider Climate
December 09, 2016
Reuters reports that legislation passed by the European Parliament, and set to be implemented in EU law, will require European pension funds to consider "environmental, social and governance risks," including the risk global climate policies pose to fossil fuels, when making investment decisions.
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World Bank Forms "Climate Business" Network
December 09, 2016
The World Bank Group's Climate Business Innovation Network, which will drive global climate funding toward "small and growing businesses" developing technology to help meet their countries' commitments under the UN's Paris climate deal, shows how international organizations are using private funding and businesses to support their agenda on global warming.
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WHO Candidates Propose Pressure on Medicine Prices
December 09, 2016
IP-Watch reports that two candidates for the position of Director of the UN's World Health Organization have both pointed to ways of placing pressure on pharmaceutical companies, through "social responsibility" measures and "price monitoring," to reduce the price of their medication around the world.
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UN Agents Seek Clampdown on Baby Formula Marketing
December 08, 2016
Arguing that countries "should be careful not to condemn or judge women" who do not breastfeed, a group of UN human rights mandate holders nonetheless label breastfeeding "a matter of human rights" for babies and call on governments to crack down on "misleading marketing practices" by businesses promoting the use of baby formula.
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