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Nearly 200 CEOs say their companies are committed to delivering value to all stakeholders, not just shareholders
On August 19, 2019, the Business Roundtable (BRT), a lobbying group composed of leading CEOs in the US, released an updated Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation. This statement expresses a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders, including...
Author: Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos- FOCO (Argentina)
"Newsletter Bimensual del Observatorio de Empresas Transnacionales"- Agosto de 2019...
Investors launch five-year global initiative to engage largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters to act on climate change
USA: Corporate Equality Index scores record number of companies full marks for having inclusive policies for LGBT workers
USA: Georgia Power settles disability discrimination lawsuit for $1.6 million
Author: Kevin McGowan, Bloomberg (USA)
"Georgia Power, EEOC Settle Disabilities Lawsuit for $1.6M", 16 Nov 2016...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest Legal News
- Related companies: Georgia Power (part of Southern Company) Southern Company
Shareholder resolutions increase pressure on companies to address climate change
Author: Benjamin Hulac, Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E) (USA)
"Spurred by Paris, shareholder climate resolutions reach new high", 9 Mar 2016...
- Related in-depth areas: Accountability: Loss & damage, litigation, shareholder activism Mitigation
- Related companies: AES Anadarko (now part of Occidental Petroleum) Chevron Devon Energy Equinor (formerly Statoil) ExxonMobil Hess Corporation Noble Energy Occidental Petroleum Shell Southern Company Suncor
A Climate Plan Businesses Can Like
Author: Jody Freeman & Kate Konschnik, New York Times (USA)
With the release of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a flood of legal challenges will begin. Already, opponents have denounced the new rule limiting carbon pollution as unconstitutional. Behind the rattling sabers, however…[m]any big players in the...
- Related stories: USA: Obama announces major climate change plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Related companies: Calpine Exelon MidAmerican Energy (part of Berkshire Hathaway) PG&E Southern Company
Commentary: "Internal documents show fossil fuel industry has been aware of climate change for decades"
Author: Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists, (USA)
"Internal documents show fossil fuel industry has been aware of climate change for decades", 8 July 2015...
Subcritical coal top 20: Engaging energy companies on climate & human rights impacts
In March 2015, researchers at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University published "Stranded Assets and Subcritical Coal: The Risk to Companies and Investors". The report describes sub-critical coal as: "the least efficie...
US and Chinese companies dominate list of most-polluting coal plants
Author: Damian Carrington, Guardian (UK)
The 100 global power companies most at risk from growing pressure to shut highly polluting coal plants have been revealed in a new report from Oxford University....
- Related stories: Subcritical coal top 20: Engaging energy companies on climate & human rights impacts
- Related companies: AES Ameren American Electric Power China Guodian China Huadian China Power Investment China Resources Enterprises China Shenhua Energy (part of Shenhua Group) Datang International Power Generation Duke Energy E.ON Edison International Eskom Huaneng Power International NRG Energy NTPC RWE Southern Company State Grid Corporation of China Vattenfall