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Supply Chain
H&M promises to make green the new black
High street fashion giant H&M has revealed it is on track to use only sustainable cotton by the end of the decade, as part of a major push to curb the environmental impact of its supply chain. The announcement came as H&M yesterday launched its 2011 Sustainability Report, alongside two new Conscious Collection ranges featuring clothes made from more sustainable materials, such as organic cotton and hemp, as well as recycled polyester.

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Environment
Shell to pioneer advanced biofuels from crop waste
Shell is developing low-carbon biofuels from inedible plants and crop waste that could potentially be blended at higher concentrations with petrol and diesel. The company’s biofuels research team is working with biotech firms and academic institutions across the world on the flagship project in a bid to commercialise its R&D work in this field.

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Painting roofs white is as green as taking cars off the roads for 50 years
Painting roofs white and using light-coloured materials to surface roads and pavements would not only make cities cooler in summer, it would save the same amount of carbon as taking all the cars in the world off the roads for 50 years, a study has found. One of the simplest, yet most effective, ways of engineering the urban environment to cope with global warming is to increase the reflectivity of the cityscape so that more of the incoming sunlight is directed back into space, scientists said.
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Corporate Reputation
Protests at BP meeting over bosses’ pay and environment
BP was given a bloody nose yesterday as 12% of its shareholders voted against top executive pay packages at a colourful annual general meeting in which environmental protesters were forcibly carried out of the building. While some investors quietly voted against the scale of pay, others were more vocal about environmental concerns, with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 and BP’s involvement in Canadian tar sands high on their agenda.  One investor accused BP of hastening the demise of the planet.
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Social Investment

Coca-Cola delivers water security to drought-hit Somalia

The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation has launched an initiative to increase the water security of thousands of people in Somalia. The foundation has teamed up with International Relief & Development (IRD), an implementer of United States foreign assistance and a leader in the international stabilisation, to deliver the project.

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