This blog provides information on how U.N. Global Compact participants' walk the talk. The GC is a voluntary initiative at the strategic level to engage businesses towards sustainability principles. There is however a risk of 'blue-washing' by covering up corporate misbehaviour and law infringement from large MNEs through poorly enforced 'Integrity Measures' and weak U.N supervision. Let's 'WE', civil society stay tuned!
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Showing posts with label land contamination. Show all posts
On August 3rd 2011, an article from the Guardian (U.K) reported Royal Dutch Shell plcaccepted its liability for two major oil spills in Nigeria (more). This is occurring while a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report is expectedto be released on the impacts of oil pollution in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta.
