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Switzerland Aids UN Inquiry on Sustainable Finance
May 12, 2015
The Swiss Government recently hosted a symposium as part of the UN Environment Programme's Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System in which participants discussed how to promote the UN agenda on a climate-friendly financial sector.
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Business Groups Seek to Sway BHR Treaty Working Group
May 11, 2015
Preparing for meetings of a UN working group on a binding business and human rights ("BHR") treaty, a group of international business organizations has published a draft proposal calling for the body's work to build upon the UN Guiding Principles on BHR and to address domestic as well as international companies.
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NGO Details Needs for Impact Assessments
May 11, 2015
In a recent interview, a representative from the nongovernmental organization Business for Social Responsibility described how companies around the world should be performing human rights impact assessments to demonstrate how they are promoting the UN's business and human rights agenda.
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NGO Seeks to Force Pensions to Consider Climate Risks
May 08, 2015
The nongovernmental organization ("NGO") ClientEarth has launched an initiative that will challenge pension funds that, in the view of the NGO, are not fulfilling their "legal" obligation to consider the risks of climate change in their investment decisions.
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Unilever Pushes Activist Agenda on Climate Change
May 08, 2015
The Chief Executive Officer of Unilever Paul Polman writes in The Guardian that his company has adopted the UN's agenda on sustainability and climate change, in part by forming a new organization of businesses, governments, and activist groups called Tropical Forest Alliance 2020.
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