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Article Calls for "Industry-Specific Standards" for UNGPs
December 02, 2015
Dorothée Baumann-Pauly of New York University's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights ("BHR") has called for companies, as part of their due diligence under the UN Guiding Principles for BHR ("UNGPs"), to gather with others in the same industries to develop "industry-specific standards" against which to measure their progress toward implementation of the UNGPs.
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Consultants: Lawyers Will Be at Center of BHR Efforts
December 01, 2015
Adam Smith-Anthony and Laura Edwards at the business and human rights ("BHR") consultancy Omnia Strategy LLP write that corporate general counsel will in the future become a leading factor in coordinating efforts within businesses to implement the global BHR agenda.
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Chair of UN Group Seeks BHR Measurement Framework
December 01, 2015
In a recent article, Chair of the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") Margaret Jungk calls for a "common framework" through which observers can measure the progress governments and businesses are making in implementing the UN Guiding Principles on BHR.
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GRI Pushes Australian Companies on Climate Change
December 01, 2015
The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") asserts that Australian companies, based on the information they publicly report, are not doing enough to manage risks related to global warming and has issued guidance on how these companies can report their implementation of the global "sustainability" agenda.
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Analyst: Lawyers Should Explain Tax Avoidance Risks
November 30, 2015
Sudip Hazra, a research analyst from financial services firm Kepler Cheuvreux, calls on attorneys to explain the potential long-term risks to businesses of tax avoidance and why financial companies and investors have a fiduciary duty to disclose these risks to their clients.
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