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NGO Criticizes Corporate Alliance Against Plastic Waste
January 16, 2019
The Guardian reports that activist group Greenpeace has characterized a newly launched Alliance to End Plastic Waste, created by companies including Procter & Gamble, Shell, and ExxonMobil to fund research on and efforts to reduce plastic pollution, as a “desperate attempt from corporate polluters to maintain the status quo on plastics.”
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World Bank Prices CAD Bond for SDGs on Nutrition
January 16, 2019
The World Bank recently priced a benchmark CAD 1.5 billion “Sustainable Development bond” aimed at raising funds to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to healthy diets, as part of the World Bank’s global strategy to raise private funds for the UN’s comprehensive social and environmental agenda.
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IKEA Embraces Forest “Sustainability” in NGO Partnership
January 16, 2019
A briefing from the environmental organization WWF describes its partnership with furniture company IKEA to promote “responsible forest management” as a way “to contribute to a sustainable global economy,” as part of the trend among companies to embrace the “sustainability” agenda to avoid criticism by activists.
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Report Seeks More Precise Regulation of Corporate Rights Impacts
January 16, 2019
A group of nongovernmental organizations has commissioned a report aggregating research on costs to businesses of failing to implement a human rights “due diligence” regime and calling for “a more precise regulation of corporate responsibility” to prevent negative business impacts on human rights.
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Law Professor Calls for UN Chief to Investigate Khashoggi Murder
January 15, 2019
Professor Steven Ratner of the University of Michigan Law School calls for UN Secretary-General António Guterres to launch an investigation of the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, arguing that a UN report on the murder could lead to appropriate sanctions of senior-level officials suspected of involvement in the murder plot.
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