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Ministerial Council Meeting 2023: statements by Business at OECD & TUAC

Securing a Resilient Future: Shared Values and Global Partnerships

Business at OECD: "As our economies face continued challenges, strive to leave the legacy of the pandemic behind and address climate change, an unsettled world order requires an ever-greater capacity and commitment to multilateral cooperation and collective progress on these common fronts."

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Economic Policy for a Just Transition

Trade Union Advisory Committee: "Governments should commit to a Just Transition that addresses distributional impacts of environmental policies and upholds workers’ rights and livelihoods."

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Check out the experience of some civil society organisations we co-operate with

Charles Johnston

Business at OECD (BIAC)'s Chair
"The last sixty years have shown us that businesses, governments, and OECD stakeholders can achieve great success when working together towards common goals. Through our network, we have shown that lessons learned locally can be instructive globally."

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Marc Leemans

TUAC Acting President
"The OECD is fundamental in helping to understand our economic reality and to shape effective policies. Since the Marshall Plan, the TUAC has been a close interlocutor of the OECD in making sure that the workers’ voice is represented."

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Marc Leemans
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Marian G. Ingrams

OECD Watch Coordinator, SOMO researcher
"Our engagement with the OECD has helped improve the functioning of some National Contact Points and strengthen standards for responsible business conduct under the OECD Guidelines and due diligence guidances".

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Marian G. Ingrams
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Marc Rotenberg

CSISAC Steering Group, former EPIC President
"The rapid deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises profound challenges to democracy. The OECD AI Guidelines are the first international policy framework to help ensure fairness, accountability and transparency in the use of AI".

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Marc Rotenberg
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Wolfgang Jamann

ICSC Executive Director
"Alliances can remind large multilateral institutions like the OECD that they are accountable and responsible for their actions and results towards the citizens of their member countries, many of which have given CSOs the mandate to speak up for them".

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Jeremy Wates

EEB Secretary General
"OECD deliberations, at the interface between environment and economy, are of particular interest and value to all concerned to find ways of reducing humankind’s environmental footprint and moving swiftly towards a one-planet economy”.

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Jeremy Wates
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How we have been working together over the years

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