Corporate Accountability, Financial Sector & Sustainability

Latest news & documents

• Financial sector awaits ambitious agreement in Copenhagen. Press release and Briefing Paper, 2 June 2009
• Study "Playing with Labour Rights: music player and game console manufacturing in China" (March 2009)
• Summary of the Study "Silenced to Deliver: Mobile phone manufacturing in China and the Philippines" (Sept. 2008) [PDF, 400 KB]
• Full version of study "Silenced to Deliver..." [PDF, 1.5 MB]
• Powering the mobile world. Cobalt production for batteries in the DR Congo and Zambia [PDF, 2.3MB]
• Capacitating Electronics. The corrosive effects of platinum and palladium mining on labour rights and communities [PDF, 1.3MB]
• Connecting components, dividing communities. Tin production for consumer electronics in the DR Congo and Indonesia [PDF, 1MB]
• EU automobile companies are obliged to report climate related risks in annual reports. Press release and brief legal opinion (June 2008)

OECD Guidelines and Complaints

• The Model National Contact Point (MNCP): Proposals for improving and harmonizing the procedures of the National Contact Points for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (September 2007)
• Study: Transparency and the OECD Dispute Settlement Process
• OECD Complaint against Volkswagen (May 2007)
• Guide to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises' Complaint Procedure. Lessons from Past NGO Complaints (June 2006) [PDF, 500KB]
• Public Eye Award / Positive Award (Jan. 2006)
• OECD Complaint against Bayer because of Child Labour in India
• Press release of 11 October 2004
• Statement by MV Foundation: Combating child labour in cottonseed production: A statement on the present role of multinational companies in Andhra Pradesh [PDF, 20KB]
• Study: Child labour in hybrid cottonseed production in Gujarat and Karnataka [PDF, 200KB]
• Study: Child labour in hybrid cottonseed production in Andhra Pradesh: recent developments [PDF, 150KB]
• The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Supply Chain Responsibility [PDF, 150KB]
• Review of National Contact Points for the OECD Guidelines, June 2004 [PDF, 250KB]
• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

• 1. OECD Guidelines and Socially Responsible Investment [PDF, 80KB]
• 2. SRI Criteria and the OECD Guidelines [PDF, 100KB]
• 3. Human rights provisions of the OECD Guidelines [PDF, 120KB]
• 4. Supply chains [PDF, 80KB]

• April 2007 [PDF, 100KB]
• June 2006 [PDF, 130KB]
• March 2006 [PDF, 150KB]
• March 2005 [PDF, 220KB]
• October 2004 [PDF, 200KB]
• June 2003 [PDF, 60KB]
• April 2003 [PDF, 27KB]

• Letter to John Ruggie, UN Special Representative (May 2006)
• International NGO Statement on Corporate Accountability (Nov. 2004)
• Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations. Statement to High Commissioner for Human Rights (Sept. 2004)
• Joint press release in support of the UN norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises. 26 March 2004
• Where is the Limit to Corporate Responsiblity? Trade Relations and Supply Chain Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises. Documentation of the conference, Berlin, December 2003 [PDF, 750KB]
• Open letter against expansion of the WTO agenda and reply by P.Lamy. Feb/March 2003
• Statement against an Agreement on Investment in the WTO (2002)
• Documentation of the panel discussion "Responsible Globalization?" (Berlin, 17 January 2001) [PDF file, 735 k]

• Financial sector awaits ambitious agreement in Copenhagen. Press release and Briefing Paper, 2 June 2009
• EU automobile companies are obliged to report climate related risks in annual reports. Press release and brief legal opinion (June 2008)
• Climate change risk reporting in the annual reports 2006 of the European automobile industry
• Documentation of workshop: Carbon Disclosure Project Data - Validation and Analysis (Feb 2006)
• Discussion paper: Climate and corporations - Right answers or wrong questions? (Feb 2006)
• Documentation of workshop: CSR Risks as a Corporate Governance Issue. 29 June 2004
• Documentation of Ratings Event on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, 2 April 2004
• Discussion paper: Climate Change Related Risks and Company Ratings (Jan. 2004)
• Risk Management in Water and Climate - the Role of Insurance and Other Financial Services (Feb. 2003)
• Climate change in the risk managment of institutional investors. Interview with Andrew Dlugolecki (May 2002)
• Experts workshop "Climate Change and the Financial Sector", 28 Nov 2002 at Gerling, Cologne: Documentation, Manuscripts, Presentations and Photos

• Synergising Sustainable Consumption and Competitiveness. Report of Roundtable, March 2005
• Lisbon Strategy, sustainable consumption and competitiveness: Letter by Worldwatch Institute and Germanwatch to Claude Juncker, March 2005 [PDF, 40KB]