Governance and Transparency

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Governance & Transparency

Explore crucial insights in the Annual ESG Preparedness Report, highlighting leadership’s role in integrating Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) into business. This report emphasises women’s impact on sustainability governance and calls for actionable leadership strategies in a world increasingly aware of its ecological footprint.
The negative impact of corruption on climate action is a link we can no longer ignore. Dana Schrann explains how it is imperative to keep a close eye on whether states are over-exaggerating actual efforts towards climate action, while continuing with business as usual.
As Human Rights Due Diligence becomes increasingly important for businesses, Oxfam’s Private Sector Human Rights Advisor, Monica Romis looks at how purchasing practices have direct implications on the human rights of workers, sharing some of Oxfam’s research and highlighting concrete steps business can take for a more equitable sharing of rights and responsibilities through the supply chain.
With over 1.4 million deaths, COVID-19 has disrupted health systems all over the world and highlighted profound inequality. Corruption during the pandemic has widened the gap between the haves and have-nots. Alongside policy makers, there is much that businesses can do to tackle corruption in the response to COVID-19 and contribute to more equal societies.
On 29 November, Switzerland will hold a nationwide referendum on the Responsible Business Initiative. A vote in favour of the initiative will make companies headquartered in Switzerland legally responsible for what happens in their supply chains.
The COVID-19 crisis is accelerating a shift toward a more integrated approach to corporate governance that has been gathering force for some time
To ensure a resilient world economy that will sustain a Covid-19 recovery conducive to social progress, governments must now take decisive legislative action, according to a new ITUC report.
COVID-19 has become the window frame through which we now view so much of our lives. Certainly, high on that list is our work and workplace. For many who are fortunate to be employed and work from home, there have been annoyances and stresses in managing our home life and work life at the same time. But for a whole host of “essential workers” that workplace can be a matter of life or death, quite literally.