Business & Human Rights

NGOs Encourage Foreign Lawsuits Against UK Companies

September 14, 2016

The nongovernmental organizations CORE and London Mining Network have published a guide for alleged victims of corporate environmental and other harms in foreign countries to pursue remedies against UK companies in British courts.
Quaker UN Group Takes up "Climate Justice" Cause

September 13, 2016

A report from the Quaker United Nations Office demonstrates how religious advocacy groups have taken up the global cause of environmental activists to use national and international courts to require governments to limit greenhouse gas emissions among private industries by declaring a "human right" against climate change.
NGOs Obtain Ombudsman Critique of IFC Mine Project

September 13, 2016

Responding to a complaint filed by nongovernmental organizations warning of the potential environmental impacts of a private Colombian mine project to be financed by the International Finance Corporation, the IFC's independent ombudsman found that the organization had not performed a proper assessment of the possible biodiversity consequences of the project.
GRI Seeks More Extractives Reporting in Australia, Asia

September 13, 2016

A report from the Global Reporting Initiative calls for more companies in the extractives industry in Australia and Asia to use GRI reporting standards to publicly disclose their "social, environmental and economic impacts" and seeks more robust reporting on particular issues of concern unique to energy and mining companies.
Activist Firm Petitions UK on Climate Disclosure

September 09, 2016

Environmental law firm ClientEarth has filed letters with the UK Financial Reporting Council complaining that two energy companies failed to adequately disclose the "material risks" ClientEarth says global warming poses to their businesses in their annual financial reports.