Operationalizing Remedy for Financial Institutions with the Equator Principles Association

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October 2022: On 25 October the Equator Principles Association (EPA) released A SUITE OF NEW DUE DILIGENCE TOOLS designed to enhance access to grievance mechanisms and enable effective remedy in project finance transactions.

DEMOCRACYNEXT: Six ways to democratise city planning - Enabling thriving and healthy cities

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DemocracyNext published today a paper on Six Ways to Democratise City Plannng, available now at our website in English, Spanish and French. The paper is the result of nine months of consultations with a task force of experts in deliberative democracy, planners, architects, urbanists, city government officials, investors, developers, and civil society organisations.

Registration: Strategic Litigation Impact Report Webinar, 15th Feb, 2024

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The Freedom Fund (FF) is organizing a webinar on Strategic litigation that is an important tool used by rightsholders, civil society organisations, and human rights defenders around the world to hold corporations accountable for human rights and environmental abuses.

PRI introduces Progression Pathways, a step-by-step journey to support progress on responsible investment practices

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London — Today, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) launched the co-design process for the Progression Pathways, a step-by-step journey for PRI signatories on responsible investment practices. The PRI is committed to co-designing the pathways with its signatory base to ensure that they respond to investor needs and preferences. It will be optional for signatories to adopt the pathways.

Weekly Update 7 February: Israel/OPT: Itochu ends collaboration with Israeli arms firm over ICJ ruling

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The Business and Human Rights' s rundown of this week's top stories and breaking news about business & human rights. Includes company responses, the latest jobs, and events announcements.

GISD Alliance co-signs Call to Action on Scaling Private Capital Mobilization

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The GISD Alliance has co-signed a joint Call to Action to heads of states, policymakers and multilateral development bank (MDB) officials to scale private capital mobilization.

The Impact Taskforce: State of Play 2023

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This report takes stock of progress made on our original recommendations to the UK G7 Presidency put forward in Time to Deliver: Mobilizing private capital at scale for people and planet. Our work continues to be organized around the two core themes of impact transparency and capital mobilization in support of a Just Transition.

Business Leadership in Times of Crisis: Collected Insights from Chief Executive Officers into Successes, Challenges and Areas for Future Focus

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The UN Global Compact has compiled perspectives from CEOs across the globe, to provide policymakers, companies, and the public with practical insights into business leadership in today’s novel and dynamic operating environment.

EQUATOR PRINCIPLES leadership change

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Amit Puri, Standard Chartered, has informed the EP Steering Committee that he is leaving his role at Standard Chartered and consequently also vacates his position as Chair, with immediate effect.

Dec 2023 | Banking, Climate Change, Net Zero Banking, Publications, Target Setting Net-Zero Banking Alliance 2023 Progress Update

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The Net-Zero Banking Alliance provides an in-depth analysis of NZBA members’ progress on target-setting and delivery against their targets every two years in the form of a progress report. The last progress report compiled by the Alliance was published in November 2022; the next such report will be published in Summer 2024 after NZBA’s founding member banks are due to have set targets for all thei

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