USCIB Encourages Biden Environmental Nominees to Engage on Multilateral Issues
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NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The United States Council for International Business (USCIB) issued a statement today by its President and CEO,
Peter Robinson, commending the nominations of
Michael Regan, for Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and
Brenda Mallory to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). USCIB members are strongly committed to advancing environmental protection through innovation and investment in the global marketplace. We believe that EPA and CEQ play crucial roles in shaping U.S. international environmental policy, not just in connection with climate change but in other priority areas, such as pursuing nature-based solutions, circular economies and responsible chemicals risk management. 2021 will be a year of important decision-points in the multilateral s
ILO and ECAM collaborate to fight child labour in Malawi
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The action programme, valued at more than MWK 73 million (almost USD $100,000) has been agreed this week under the ILO’s Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply Chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa) project, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands.
Lilongwe, 15 December 2020 The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Employers Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM) have signed an action programme to mobilise the country’s private sector in the fight against child labour in Malawi.
The new action programme will see ECAM establish a National Employer Taskforce Against Child Labour, promote child labour elimination policies and practices across the private sector, and facilitate more and better Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) investments by companies to address the root causes of child labour in supply chains.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/
The U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB), which represents many of America s leading global companies, provided comments to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in response to the OECD s Public Consultation Request to its Reports on the Pillar One and Pillar Two Blueprints, which would develop coherent rules to address the tax challenges arising from the digitalization of the economy.
Among its recommendations, USCIB emphasized that the OECD rules should be developed with consideration of their potential impact on global growth and business investment decisions, and should be designed in a way to support the achievement of tax certainty for taxpayers and tax administrations and not be too complex or too onerous in compliance to discourage global investment. According to its comments, USCIB noted that the rules should also be based, to the maximum extent possible, on internati