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NGO Urges "Sustainability" in G-20 Development Efforts
July 20, 2016
The Institute for Human Rights and Business has published a report calling on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to align its advice to the G-20 group of countries on funding development projects around the world with the UN's comprehensive, socially and environmentally focused Sustainable Development Goals.
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Harvard Journal Reviews Remedies for "Corporate Atrocities"
July 20, 2016
The Harvard International Law Journal has published a symposium reviewing proposals on worldwide jurisdiction for "corporate atrocity crimes" that includes a broad variety of articles considering how to establish remedies for violations of the global business and human rights agenda.
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Shareholders Ramp up Suits over Environmental Risks
July 20, 2016
Madison Condon of Colombia University writes on a set of recent lawsuits in the US demonstrating that corporate shareholders are increasingly turning to the courts in cases of environmental disasters to claim that corporations did not properly inform them of the risks to the environment involved in their operations.
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France Plans Tax Increase on Coal-Fired Plants
July 20, 2016
As governments move to meet their greenhouse gas emissions pledges under the recent UN climate deal, Reuters reports that French Environment Minister Segolene Royal has announced her approval of a recommendation from a government advisory committee to impose higher taxes or more stringent emissions standards on coal-fired power plants in the country.
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EU, Korea Establish Joint Carbon Tax Scheme
July 20, 2016
As part of a move to globalize its efforts to counter climate change, the EU is working with South Korea to ramp up the latter's efforts to impose a price on corporate greenhouse gas emissions in order to drastically reduce these emissions in both the EU and Korea by the year 2019.
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