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Commission Seeks Reforms in Medication Patents
November 22, 2016
The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines, an organization supported in part by the UN's World Health Organization, has issued a report calling for more global spending to resolve "massive inequities and inefficiencies" in health care and reforms in the patenting of medicines to reduce pricing and increase access.
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NGOs Criticize Canadian OECD Contact Point
November 16, 2016
A group of nongovernmental organizations has criticized Canada's OECD National Contact Point for ineffectiveness in handling complaints against energy and mining companies and has called for the development of an office that can impose mandatory penalties on businesses for violations of global human rights and environmental standards.
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Governments Bend to OECD Tax Standards
November 16, 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has announced that, at its recent Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, it completed its first round of reviews of countries' compliance with global standards on tax information exchange and received government commitments to address deviations from these guidelines.
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IEA Calls for Use of Global Energy Efficiency Standards
November 16, 2016
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published an interview with Brian Motherway, head of energy efficiency at the International Energy Agency, praising the use of global standards in regulating how businesses and investors reduce energy consumption in their operations.
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Google Implements ISO "Sustainability" Standards
November 16, 2016
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published an article from a Google "sustainability" officer describing how the internet giant has used global environmental and social standards to reduce its environmental impacts and has received a certificate of recognition for implementing ISO guidelines on "energy management."
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