The FINANCIAL -- General Motors has become a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative. GM pledges to support and promote the compact’s 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and ...
The FINANCIAL -- A majority of business leaders say that a long term agreement at the UN climate summit (COP21) in Paris is critical to supporting private sector investment in low carbon solutions, ...
The FINANCIAL -- On August 31, after 15 years at the helm of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, Georg Kell will step down as Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, the ...
The FINANCIAL -- The Children’s Rights and Business Principles have been an important instrument for guiding business implementation of children’s rights into corporate citizenship strategies. ...
The FINANCIAL -- Event, co-organised by the EBRD, showcases Bank-financed solar and wind projects in Kazakhstan, EBRD pilot credit line for climate resilience in ...
The FINANCIAL -- Six heads of state and government and the leaders of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund on November 30 called on companies and countries to follow up on their ...
The FINANCIAL -- The heads of the world’s largest development banks pledged on November 30 to work together to substantially increase climate investments and ensure that development programmes ...
The FINANCIAL -- As world leaders gather in Paris this week to fashion a global climate change accord, their citizens are sending them two different, but not necessarily contradictory ...
The FINANCIAL -- Nearly three-quarters of Americans see global climate change as a “very serious” (45%) or “somewhat serious” (29%) threat, and two-thirds (66%) say people will have to make ...
The FINANCIAL -- Global warming advocates are calling for the prosecution of groups who disagree with them, and New York State has taken it a step further by investigating Exxon Mobil for refusing to ...
