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GRI Conference Focuses on Business Climate Data
June 09, 2016
At a recent conference hosted by the Global Reporting Initiative, speakers called for a new global framework pushing comprehensive corporate disclosure of risks associated with moving away from greenhouse gas emissions and countering climate change.
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EU Council Adopts Tax Reporting Rules
June 09, 2016
The EU's European Council has adopted rules proposed by the European Commission to require multinational companies to report their financial information on a country-by-country basis and mandating the automatic exchange of this information by EU member states in order to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance.
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NGO: Investor Suits Take away Philippines Sovereignty
June 09, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Transnational Institute has published an article asserting that the signing of trade agreements by the Philippines that include investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms give the mining industry control over the country's environmental policy.
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UNGC, GRI Sign Renewed Partnership on Sustainability
June 09, 2016
The UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative have signed a renewed memorandum of understanding that focuses on partnership between the organizations on pushing companies within their networks to implement and report their progress in advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Airline Association: Emissions Tax Will Cost Customers
June 08, 2016
International Air Transportation Association Director General Tony Tyler has confirmed that consumers will have to bear the costs of a decision the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization will likely make this fall to seek a tax on airlines to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of their airplanes.