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EU Publishes List of Non-compliant Corporate Carbon Emitters
May 13, 2016
The website Carbon Pulse reports that the European Commission has published a list of companies that it says did not comply with the EU's emissions trading system by failing to surrender sufficient carbon emission "offsets" to account for their greenhouse gas emissions last year.
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WEF Report Calls for Social, Environmental Construction Reforms
May 12, 2016
The World Economic Forum has issued a report calling for a "transformation" of the global construction industry, including through the adoption of climate-friendly and "socially responsible" standards.
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NGOs Seek Comprehensive EU Action on BHR Agenda
May 12, 2016
A group of NGOs has called on members of the EU Foreign Affairs Council to seek to "address gaps" in the EU's implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by imposing strict due diligence requirements on companies, offering more effective remedies to alleged BHR victims, and cooperating in the development of a binding BHR treaty.
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NGO Publication Pushes Corporate Taxation for Realization of Rights
May 12, 2016
Righting Finance has published an advocacy tool seeking to promote assertions from a report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights that countries must provide "maximum available resources" to the realization of economic, social, and cultural human rights and therefore must clamp down on any attempts by corporations to avoid tax obligations.
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UN Initiative Pushes Companies on Emissions Targets
May 11, 2016
The UN Global Compact has announced that over 150 companies around the world have signed on to its Science Based Targets Initiative and thus have subjected themselves to review of their targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by UN and NGO representatives.
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