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16 Jun: Politico: The Long Game: A newsletter from POLITICO for leaders building a sustainable future.
Environmental justice in the spotlight
By CATHERINE BOUDREAU and DEBRA KAHN
(bottom of page) What We’re Reading
Only 46 percent of companies that committed to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 are embedding those principles into their core business model, according to a new report commissioned by the U.N. Global Compact (LINKS TO FOLLOWING)
PDF 142 PAGES: UNITED NATIONAL GLOBAL COMPACT: UNITING BUSINESS IN THE DECADE OF ACTION
Building on 20 years of action
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank representatives of the organizations listed below, who made a significant
contribution to this work through participating in research interviews and providing case studies.
The participating organizations span the various sectors covered in chapter 5...
INCLUDES HSBC AND HUAWEI ETC ETC
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-game/2020/06/16/environmental-justice-in-the-spotlight-489531

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Wikipedia: HSBC Support for China's Security Law for Hong Kong (2020)​ In June 2020, on the eve of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, HSBC took the rare step of wading into political issues by publicly backing Beijing's controversial new national security law for Hong Kong. The chief executive for HSBC's Asia-Pacific division, Peter Wong, signed a petition supporting the law and stated in a post on Chinese social media that HSBC "respects and supports all laws that stabilise Hong Kong's social order."... In response, Joshua Wong, a top Hong Kong pro-democracy activist decried the bank's position stating that HSBC's stance demonstrates “how China will use the national security law as new leverage for more political influence over foreign business community in this global city.”[164] Alistair Carmichael, the U.K. chairman of the All Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong, said HSBC made a serious error by bending to China’s will regarding the security law, calling it "a colossal misjudgment" since it would be seen as a large British corporation advocating for "a fairly flagrant breach of international law" when banks rely on a rules-based system.[162] Human Rights Watch alleged that "the new national security law will deal the most severe blow to the rights of people in Hong Kong since the territory's transfer to China in 1997."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Support_for_China's_Security_Law_for_Hong_Kong_(2020)