Posts Tagged "corporate accountability"
Take Action – Keep up the pressure on Bill C-226 to end Environmental Racism
February 2, 2023
Canada has no strategy to include environmental justice or racism in its environmental assessment or planning – not yet. The federal private member’s Bill C-226, which is before the House of Commons, addresses this shortcoming. Officially called “An Act respecting…
Post filed in: Corporate Accountability, Ecological Justice
Support bills to end environmental racism and make corporations accountable
September 13, 2022
En français.The climate crisis and environmental degradation are taking their toll on communities worldwide. But some communities are impacted more than others. For decades, polluting industries and landfill sites have ended up in Indigenous, Black, Brown and other racialized communities in…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
Corporate accountability parliamentary bills
September 7, 2022
Two private member bills have been tabled at the federal Parliament that together would improve corporate accountability of Canadian companies operating internationally, especially in the resource extraction sector. For nearly two decades civil society, labour unions, and religious groups—including KAIROS and…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
