Scaling Up for a Decisive COP With 100 days until COP30, Brazil is accelerating its “global mutirão” to cement the conference as a catalyst for a new decade of climate implementation. COP30 President-Designate André Corrêa do Lago emphasized: “When it comes to climate change, there is no path forward but
Key Points: Strengthening Global Tax Cooperation The United Nations has appointed 25 experts to its Committee on International Cooperation in Tax Matters for 2025–2029. The experts will help countries design tax systems that advance social, environmental, and economic goals while addressing challenges like the digital economy, climate transition, and inequality.
Key Impact Points: Landlocked but Not Left Behind Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) – home to over 600 million people – face some of the steepest trade and development challenges worldwide. With no sea access, they depend on transit nations, driving up trade costs by as much as 74% and doubling
Key Points A New Resource for Inclusive Business The United Nations Global Compact has unveiled the Non-Discrimination and Equality Analysis Tool, a self-assessment platform designed to help companies evaluate and advance workplace equality. The user-friendly, anonymous tool guides businesses through thirteen performance areas, identifying gaps, tracking progress, and embedding equality
Key Impact Points: Green Impact Exchange Appoints Five New Board Members to Lead U.S. Sustainability-Focused Stock Market The Green Impact Exchange (GIX), the first U.S. stock exchange dedicated to the $50 trillion sustainability economy, has appointed five new board members across its parent company and the exchange board. The additions
Key Impact Points: Most US Companies See Sustainability as a Strategic Edge The 2025 US Business Sustainability Landscape Outlook survey by EcoVadis of 400 US-based global executives reveals that most companies view sustainability not just as a values-based pursuit but as a critical business strategy. According to the report, “The
Key Impact Points: GRI Academy Expands Curriculum for Sustainability Professionals As climate and biodiversity crises deepen, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is taking steps to help organizations improve how they disclose environmental impacts. The GRI Academy has launched two new online courses to equip sustainability professionals with the tools to
Key Impact Points: High Stakes as Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reach Final Stage With the final round of global plastic treaty negotiations (INC-5.2) set to begin in Geneva, WWF is calling on countries to urgently unite behind a legally binding agreement that can end the plastic pollution crisis. “If we
Key Impact Points: High-Level Push for Stronger Plastics Treaty Panama’s Juan Carlos Navarro, Minister of Environment, and Juan Carlos Monterrey, Special Representative for Climate Change, joined global leaders in demanding that the UN Plastics Treaty tackles the root of the problem: plastic production. “We cannot recycle our way out of
Key Points:• ICJ unanimously declares states must prevent environmental harm and cooperate on climate under international law• Obligations derive from treaties, customary law, UNCLOS, biodiversity agreements, and human rights law• States may face legal consequences — including reparations — for failure to act on climate change ICJ Issues Landmark Climate
