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World Bank Pushes "Green Finance" Through Auction
January 25, 2017
Using taxpayer funding from Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US, the World Bank has completed its third "climate auction" - called the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation - offering a guaranteed price for credits to companies that invest in projects to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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WEF Meeting Pressures Businesses on Global Warming
January 24, 2017
Bloomberg reports that the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in Davos devoted 24 of its sessions to global warming and clean energy, in the WEF's most expansive focus yet on pushing businesses to adopt and implement the climate change agenda of the UN and environmental activists.
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WEF Signs Plastics Companies to Action Plan
January 24, 2017
The World Economic Forum has highlighted how international and nongovernmental organizations seek to make binding policy changes out of business pledges by signing more than 40 leaders from plastic companies to a New Plastics Economy initiative setting out a "global action plan" on expanding recycling practices.
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UNGC Outlines SDG Action Plan in 2017
January 24, 2017
In an annual letter to business participants in the UN Global Compact (UNGC) network, UNGC Executive Director Lise Kingo explains how her organization will work in 2017 to push businesses to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and announces that UNGC will begin collecting mandatory contributions from businesses in its network in 2018.
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OECD Calls for Government Pressure on Drug Pricing
January 24, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a report calling on governments use law and regulations to "rebalance" the negotiating powers of drug consumers and manufacturers to force drug companies to lower the prices of high-cost products.
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