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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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WEF Signs Businesses to Sustainability Compact
January 25, 2017
At its recent meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a document for signature by all participants called The Compact for Responsive and Responsible Leadership to commit business leaders to a "corporate governance framework" embedding the UN's sustainable development agenda in company operations.
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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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NGOs Criticize Corporate Charter on Mexican Produce
January 25, 2017
The Los Angeles Times reports that labor and consumer groups are criticizing an "Ethical Charter" released by North American companies in the food industry pledging to adhere to the law and to "international expectations" in obtaining produce from Mexican farms for failing to include an enforcement mechanism, including "audits by trained inspectors," in its provisions.
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