U.N.’s Water Agenda at Risk of Being Hijacked by Big Business

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Trendspotting, Sustainability Research Group

  U.N.’s Water Agenda at Risk of Being Hijacked by Big Business   By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 2013 (IPS) – Amidst growing new threats of potential conflicts over fast-dwindling water resources in the world’s arid regions, the United Nations will commemorate 2013 as the International Year of …

Revised UN Convention Seeks To Encourage Investment, Combat Corporate Tax Evasion

kristySRI/ESG News

REVISED UN CONVENTION SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE INVESTMENT, COMBAT CORPORATE TAX EVASION New York, Mar 14 2012 6:05PM The United Nations announced today that it has updated a set of guidelines to prevent double taxation between countries, as well as to avoid tax evasion, which costs countries $3.1 trillion every year. …

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Professor Danica Purg

kristySRI/ESG News

An interview from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Professor Danica Purg, Founder and President of the IEDC-Bled School of Management, Bled, Slovenia and of the Central and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN) – April 29, 2011 By Geoffrey on April 29, 2011 …