Global Policy Forum, MISEREOR and Brot für die Welt launch a new working paper on the "Corporate influence through the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa". The working paper puts a spotlight on how business interests are promoted through the G8NA. To that end, the paper shows how the initiative bundles existing policy initiatives and aligns national policies to corporate interests. The paper concludes that the approach and objectives of the G8NA are highly problematic. The [...]
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A guide to environmental-social budgeting
International development policy is at a crossroads. By September 2015, governments plan to adopt a Post-2015 Development Agenda – an agenda that is supposed to shape the fundamental priorities, goals and strategies for development policy beyond 2015. In parallel, governments have agreed to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals integrating all dimensions (social, economic and environmental) of sustainable development and being applicable to all countries in the world. Forming one coherent Post-2015 Agenda, including the SDGs, affects all policy [...]
A new GPF working paper, jointly published with Brot für die Welt and MISEREOR, gives an overview of the debate around how to create an international legally binding instrument to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights abuses. The scope reaches early efforts to formulate the UN Code of Conduct to the current initiative for a binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights. The paper particularly focuses on the responses by TNCs and their leading interest groups to the various [...]
A critical view on the Responsibility to Protect
Global Policy Forum and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office publish a joint report on the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P). "In whose name? A critical view on the Responsibility to Protect” by Lou Pingeot and Wolfgang Obenland provides an overview of the history and content of R2P, its positive contributions and its flaws. It concludes that R2P does not give a satisfying answer to the key question it is supposed to address: how best to prevent and, if [...]
Das Gerechtigkeitsprinzip in den Klima- und Post-2015-Verhandlungen
Das Prinzip der gemeinsamen, aber unterschiedlichen Verantwortung (Common But Differentiated Responsibilities, CBDR) gilt als einer der Meilensteine des Erdgipfels von Rio 1992. Die Regierungen hatten damals ihren unterschiedlichen Beitrag zur Umweltzerstörung anerkannt – und damit auch ihre unterschiedliche Verantwortung, für die Wiederherstellung des Ökosystems und die Anpassung an Umweltschäden zu bezahlen. Heute ist dieses Prinzip zum Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Klima- und Post- 2015-Verhandlungen geworden. Der vorliegende Report beschreibt die aktuellen Kontroversen um das Rio-Prinzip, nimmt die wichtigsten Vorschläge zu [...]
Private military and security companies and the future of the United Nations
Today Global Policy Forum and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office publish a new report on recent developments and practices of the security outsourcing of the UN. GPF's Lou Pingeot discusses the increasing use of private military and security companies (PMSCs), the shifting understanding of their role and activities, and how this influences the perception of the UN by other actors. The report discusses the UN’s attempt to increase transparency and accountability in their selection processes of PMSCs. Finally, Pingeot [...]
In a new working paper, GPF's Lou Pingeot discusses the influence of transnational corporations in the Post-2015 process. This working paper by Brot für die Welt, Global Policy Forum and Misereor provides an overview of the main corporate actors in the post-2015 process and how they shape the discourse on development. The paper advocates for more transparency around the participation of corporations in UN processes, including their financial support to UN initiatives, and for more reflection on the risks of [...]
Country-by-country reporting requirements for corporations – a contribution to strengthening public finances in countries in the Global South
A new working paper by Global Policy Forum, MISEREOR and Brot für die Welt sheds light on how greater corporate transparency can help overcome the dependence by countries in the Global South on foreign donors and mobilize sufficient government revenue to provide an adequate level of public goods. Corporations have devised various ways of getting their money out of a country without paying tax. If transnational companies are to be more honest in their tax affairs, their payment flows must [...]
Reclaiming the UN's Values-Based Framework
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung has published a report authored by GPF’s Barbara Adams and Lou Pingeot. The report titled “Whose Development, Whose UN?” gives an analysis of the future 'we don’t want' and the challenges facing the UN in the run up to the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. It takes a look at the state of the UN’s historically values-based framework and the interests of the different development actors shaping the post-2015 development paradigm, particularly focusing on the [...]
Deutschlands Rolle bei globaler Geldwäsche, Kapitalflucht und Steuervermeidung
Illegale Finanzströme sind ein globales Problem. Sie werden auf mindestens 1-1,6 Billionen US-Dollar jährlich geschätzt. Hinter diesen Finanzströmen stecken sehr verschiedene Aktivitäten: organisierte, oft grenzüberschreitende Kriminalität und Terrorismus; korrupte Regierungen, Eliten und Unternehmen, die ihr Geld ins Ausland schaffen; Steuerhinterziehung von Privatpersonen; Unternehmen, die Steuern hinterziehen, häufig aber auch legal vermeiden.
Ein bedeutender Teil der illegalen Kapitalflucht er- eignet sich in Ländern des globalen Südens. Das Washingtoner Institut Global Financial Integrity (GFI) schätzt sie für sog. Entwicklungsländer insgesamt auf 859 [...]
