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MEPs Seek Strict Business Taxation Rules
June 02, 2016
Members of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee have voted to approve new rules that would require compliance with OECD rules on the taxation of multinational corporate profits and would impose stricter limits on tax exemptions for revenues companies move into the EU.
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HRW Calls for Binding UN Treaty on Business Supply Chains
June 01, 2016
A Human Rights Watch report calls on countries at the 2016 International Labour Conference in Geneva to seek the development of a binding UN treaty requiring that businesses perform due diligence in investigating potential human rights issues in their global supply chains.
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NGOs Launch Government BHR Reporting Initiative
May 25, 2016
The Global Reporting Initiative and Danish Institute for Human Rights have launched an initiative that pushes governments to report their progress toward a national action plan on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and toward implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Global Aviation Emissions Curbs Would Cost Billions
May 23, 2016
Reuters reports that the International Air Transport Association has estimated that the cost for businesses of a global agreement on airline greenhouse gas emissions to be agreed by governments at a fall assembly of the International Civil Aviatiation Organization would be $6.2 billion in the year 2025 and $24 billion by the year 2035.
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Paper Encourages Judges to Require Climate Action
May 23, 2016
David Estrin of the Centre for International Governance Innovation calls on courts to use citizen lawsuits as vehicles to require government actors to regulate corporate greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the impacts of climate change.