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WWF Seeks Global Standards for "Green Bonds"
June 23, 2016
The environmental activist group WWF has called for stricter, industry-wide standards on what constitutes a "green bond," a financial instrument that funds environmentally friendly projects across the globe.
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NGO Criticizes "Investor Rights" in EU-Mexico Talks
June 23, 2016
The Transnational Institute has criticized plans for new talks on an updated EU-Mexico trade agreement that, according to TNI, would expand the rights of investors to challenge the decisions of democratically elected governments through a tribunal for investor-state disputes.
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Activists Call for Treaty with BHR Mandates
June 22, 2016
Arguing that the "voluntary" nature of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights has rendered them ineffective, two campaigners from the nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth have called for a BHR treaty that applies international human rights law directly to corporate conduct.
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NGO Pushes Climate Action in Cement Industry
June 21, 2016
A report from CDP, which provides climate change research to institutional investors, finds that businesses in the cement industry must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid risks from government climate action under the UN deal agreed last year in Paris.
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M&S Publishes Human Rights, Supply Chain Reports
June 21, 2016
As human rights campaigners and the UN bring pressure on companies to publicly report their potential human rights impacts, retail company Marks & Spencer has published its first global supply chain map, produced a human rights report as required by the UN Global Compact, and launched a Human Rights Director Steering Group to manage human rights risks.
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