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New York, NY, United States of America World’s largest corporate sustainability initiative calls on companies to provide a living wage to ensure all workers, families and communities can live in dignity UNITED NATIONS, New York, 9 June 2021 — Today the United Nations Global Compact launched a new digital report, Improving Wages to Advance Decent Work in Supply Chains, aimed at encouraging companies to promote and provide a living wage as an essential aspect of decent work to ensure workers,...

Green hydrogen – and how the water sector can engage with this ‘green, clean fuel source’ – was the focus of the latest Water...

The program begins in June and will convene representatives from 14 U.S. cities., according to a release. Hassett (pictured) is among 10 government, business, academic, clergy and nonprofit leaders from Middle Tennessee to be chosen, including the following: • Andrea Blackman, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County • Ashlee Davis, Senior Manager — Diversity and Inclusion, AllianceBernstein • Bonnie Dow, Dean o...

UN Global Compact launches Climate Ambition Accelerator to help more companies set science-based emissions reduction targets New learning programme aims to mainstream science-based targets so more companies can deliver ambitious climate action for a net-zero future April 21, 2021 20:00 ET | Source: United Nations Global Compact United Nations Global Compact New York, New York, UNITED STATES New York, NY, April 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -...

Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities are tackling wildlife crime including through working for, or establishing their own, community ranger or patrol programmes. But how effective are community-based rangers at reducing illegal wildlife trade?

Camila Corradi Bracco handles Content Development & Program Delivery at Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)* ‘Conflict trap’ a growing obstacle to sustainable development - UN chief 6 January 2021. Credit: UN Photo/Tobin Jones AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Feb 18 2021 (IPS) - Since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2016, the role of the private sector in fulfilling the 2030 Agenda has been widely acknowledged, as set out under SDG 12. Yet to assess how companies are act...

Action Platform Succeeds in Accelerating Business Reporting on the SDGs 17 December, 2020 - 20:30 GRI and UN Global Compact four-year initiative secures progressPress Release A ground-breaking initiative to drive corporate action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has significantly advanced reporting practices and identified areas for further improvement. The Action Platform for Reporting on the SDGs leverages the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and the Ten Principles of t...

>> don, i start with you. that letter was astonishing. we have seen that over the last many months more faith in corporations to take on issues like this one to step into things that they might not have stepped into before. >> yeah. but corporations speak with their money. so until they start stripping mitch mcconnell and nrcc of the tremendous amounts of money which prop up the political operations, then its kind of all empty. you can send a tlaer is nletter nonbinding to any of them. they it c...