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UN Adds Tennis Associations to Climate Action Framework
June 12, 2019
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has announced that organizers of the four global Grand Slam tennis tournaments have joined the Sports for Climate Action Framework, an initiative aimed at reducing the climate impacts of the sports industry and promoting the UN’s climate change agenda at sporting events.
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NGO Ranks Supermarkets on Plastics Action
June 12, 2019
The activist organization Greenpeace has published a ranking of 20 of the largest US grocery retailers on their actions to eliminate “single-use plastics” from their stores, finding that supermarkets are failing to act “with the urgency needed to address the pollution crisis they’re causing.”
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NGO Publishes Finance Sector Guidance for Climate Action
June 12, 2019
The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a report identifying a set of scenarios related to global warming that companies in the financial sector can use to develop strategies regarding how they will confront risks climate change poses to their investment portfolios.
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NGO Coalition Accuses Companies of Ignoring “Living Wage” Pledges
June 12, 2019
The nongovernmental organization coalition called the Clean Clothes Campaign is criticizing major clothing brands for “violating internationally recognized human rights norms” by failing to fulfill pledges to ensure workers in their global garment supply chains receive a “living wage.”
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NGO Gives US Poor Rating on Human Rights Compliance
June 10, 2019
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a nongovernmental organization based in New Zealand, has released its assessment of adherence by 19 countries to the global human rights agenda, finding the US in particular scored poorly on such norms as preventing extrajudicial killings and torture, as well as the rights to food and to health.
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