Business & Human Rights

  • California Investigates Exxon Statements on Climate Change

    February 01, 2016

    The Los Angeles Times reports that California politicians are seeking to leverage a reported investigation of energy company Exxon by the state's Attorney General Kamala Harris regarding alleged false statements the company has made to investors on the risks posed by global warming into a federal investigation of similar statements from the US energy industry.

  • UN Calls for Public-Private Partnerships to Achieve SDGs

    February 01, 2016

    UN officials meeting with business representatives in Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum called for the establishment of partnerships between the public and private sectors to accomplish the UN's comprehensive environmental and social agenda set out in its Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs").

  • Countries Sign OECD Agreement on Corporate Financial Scrutiny

    January 29, 2016

    The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has announced that 31 countries have signed its Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement providing for the automatic exchange of country-by-country financial, tax, and other information relating to multinational enterprises.

  • ISO Seeks Use of Standard in SDG Implementation

    January 29, 2016

    The International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") has published an interview with academics seeking to explain how corporations following the organization's standard on social responsibility furthers their implementation of the environmental and social framework of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs").

  • NGOs Call on UN Working Group to Investigate Fracking

    January 27, 2016

    Arguing that the practice of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") to produce natural gas places "virtually all human rights at risk," a group of individuals and nongovernmental organizations calls on the UN Working Group on business and human rights issues to guide governments and companies on the practice.

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