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German Minister Pushes Global Governance on "Tax Havens"
April 18, 2016
In the wake of the "Panama Papers" financial information leak, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has called for global governance to stop "tax evasion" and for the development of a tax information exchange system that prevents banks from using foreign "tax havens" with little to no financial reporting requirements to store their funds.
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Kerry Pushes Business on Climate Action
April 18, 2016
As part of the Obama Administration's promotion of the UN's climate change agenda in the US private sector, US Secretary of State John Kerry recently called on businesses to go beyond regulatory requirements in countering climate change at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New York.
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UN-backed Initiative Targets Businesswomen on Climate Change
April 18, 2016
The Guardian reports that a new, UN-supported initiative called "Two Degrees of Change" is calling on women in business leadership roles to promote the UN's climate change agenda on their corporate boards.
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Institutional Investors Back ExxonMobil Climate Scrutiny
April 18, 2016
Reuters reports that the Church Commissioners for England has announced support among institutional investors for a shareholder resolution it recently proposed that would require energy company ExxonMobil to disclose the impacts of climate change policies on its business.
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NGO Calls for Human Rights-based Tax Advocacy
April 15, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Righting Finance is producing a series of "advocacy tools" seeking to establish a link between government tax policies and human rights, focusing in part on asserting a connection between the avoidance of taxation by businesses and rich individuals and the violation of the economic and social human rights of others.
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