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Trends in recent cases on emerging issues point to the need to revise the OECD Guidelines

OECD Watch analysis in FDI Perspectives from Columbia Law School and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)

As the world warms and changes around us, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (Guidelines) are intended to ensure corporations act responsibly and help governments and socities meet today's most trying challenges, from climate change to inequality. But they are failing to meet that purpose. By analyzing issues emerging in complaints recently filed to the Guidelines’ grievance mechanisms - such as climate change, gender, digitalisation, and tax avoidance - OECD Watch's Perspective identifies substantive gaps in the Guidelines' standards for multinational enterprises and argues these gaps show the OECD should update the Guidelines in 2022.​ Please read the blog here (blog No. 318, 15 November 2021). For more information on OECD Watch, please visit www.oecdwatch.org.