Global Insights
Global Insights
ISSUE 50: The Challenge of Mine Tailings and People Downstream
Authors: Dean Slocum and Chris Anderson As mining companies worldwide...
5 Cases for Hope in 2022
This new year dawns with daunting challenges on our most pressing sociopolitical...
ISSUE 49: The Role of General Counsels in the ESG World
General counsels are faced with new set of challenges that call for broader...
ISSUE 48: Making ESG Impact Through Environmental Justice: 3 Approaches
Boards are being flooded with environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact...
Strategic Environmental and Social Assessments for the InterAmerican Development Bank
The InterAmerican Bank’s new Environmental and Social Performance Framework (ESPF)...
Acorn International is growing!
We are excited to introduce 4 new team members: Sarah, Juana, Tatiana, and Ranay....
ISSUE 47: WORRIED ABOUT NIMBY? PEMBE!!
Have you ever been asked if you would like to have an ‘___X___’ in your...
10th Anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Their Impact and Future
Earlier this summer, Dean Slocum, President and Founder of Acorn International had...
Issue 46: Farming the Sun – Community Perceptions in the Us and Africa
As the pace of the energy transition accelerates, solar energy developments have...
Issue 45: a Coordinated Approach to Our Three Global Crises
Science tells us that we have generated two natural means to end civilization on...
Issue 44: What Have We Learned From Rana Plaza?
In 2013, the Rana Plaza, a building that housed several garment workshops in...
ISSUE 43: THE ROLE OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR IN RESPECTING HUMAN RIGHTS
As we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations...
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