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NGOs Sue to Hamper Energy Extraction in Colombia
October 25, 2016
Claudia Strambo writes that, as part of their growing litigation strategy to combat climate change by limiting the energy industry's extraction of fossil fuels, nongovernmental organizations are filing lawsuits in Colombia against coal, oil, and gas companies on behalf of communities complaining of the effects of extraction projects on their human rights.
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IADB Mechanism Finds Community Consent Violation
October 25, 2016
An internal complaint mechanism at the Inter-American Development Bank has found that the bank violated its new environmental and sustainability policy by failing to secure the consent of several Mexican communities regarding a wind-power project it planned to fund in the region.
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NGO Seeks Chinese Standards on Business "Sustainability"
October 25, 2016
Cao Jiahan of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies writes that Chinese businesses, particularly in the infrastructure industry, should adopt global standards relating to the UN's social and environmental "sustainability" agenda in their overseas operations to improve their image and combat environmental degradation.
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GRI Seeks Model for Integrated "Sustainability" Reporting
October 24, 2016
The Global Reporting Initiative has released a summary of the work done by its Corporate Leadership Group to develop a model companies might use to integrate information on their efforts to implement the global "sustainable development" agenda with their public reporting of other data.
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Legal Observers Call for Lower EU Barriers to BHR Lawsuits
October 24, 2016
A set of proposals from legal academics and practitioners involved in the Human Rights in Business research project calls for legal reforms in the EU and its member states to make it easier for alleged victims of business and human rights violations to sue European companies for their BHR impacts and those of their subsidiaries.
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