VoteClimate: UK-Listed Mining Companies - 28th November 2012

UK-Listed Mining Companies - 28th November 2012

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate UK-Listed Mining Companies.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-11-28/debates/12112893000003/UK-ListedMiningCompanies

15:04 John McDonnell (Labour)

Back in October, I launched a report with the London Mining Network and a number of non-governmental organisations. It was part of a campaign to try to persuade the Government at that stage, while the Financial Services Bill was going through the House, to ensure that a duty was placed on the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority—the new architecture for regulation of the City—so that when companies were listed, there would be a commitment to monitoring their adherence to certain basic elements of corporate responsibility. That included ethical corporate responsibility, and in particular their operations in the developing world with regard to the protection of human rights, tackling climate change, and their adherence to international law and conventions—and, importantly, the convention on protecting indigenous peoples.

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