Results for April, 2014

Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 30, 2014
  • FTSE joins Blackrock to help investors avoid fossil fuels
  • Nigerian community takes Shell to court over oil spills
  • Global collaboration to accelerate supply chain innovation
  • Are lab-grown gems the key to a sustainable diamond trade?
  • US Justices back rule limiting coal pollution
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 29, 2014
  • Report calls for businesses to move from ‘doing less harm’ to having positive impact
  • Women CEOs ‘more likely to be fired’, says study
  • UK hospitality industry urged to focus on recycling food waste
  • EU-backed research project produces first kerosene derived from solar-powered syngas
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 28, 2014
  • Alibaba founders launch charitable trust to inspire Chinese philanthropy
  • Unilever expands sustainable living ambition
  • General Electric invests $24 million in giant Indian solar plant
  • Sustainability: New ball game for palm oil firms
  • Inflexible employers blamed as 430,000 disabled people quit their jobs in the UK
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 25, 2014
  • Shareholders spring back into action over top pay
  • UK’s largest building society Nationwide announces it will sign up to Living Wage campaign
  • Record amount of US electronics recycled in 2013
  • Fairtrade jewellery scheme launched for ‘ethical’ gold and silver
  • Starbucks suffers first UK sales fall after tax row
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 24, 2014
  • Fashion Revolution Day marks first anniversary of Rana Plaza disaser
  • Pioneering companies make commitments on conflict minerals amid legal uncertainty
  • Barclays faces rough ride at AGM over tax havens and bankers' bonuses
  • Google inks major wind energy deal for green data centre push
  • Lufthansa develops taste for 'alcohol to jet' fuel
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 23, 2014
  • Senior executives call for 'urgent and immediate' action on climate change
  • Study identifies how companies generate business value from product sustainability
  • Plan to equip buses with F1 technology boosted by UK auto funding
  • Canadian firm CarbonCure Technologies innovates concrete production with carbon capture
  • Novelis introduces high-recycled content aluminium can
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 22, 2014
  • New EU law to help investors pick good corporate citizens
  • British Airways gives green light to use waste for jet fuel
  • New toolkit helps US businesses cut food waste
  • EU moves to sustainable fisheries
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 17, 2014
  • Starbucks relocates to ‘coffee capital of the world’, – and a bigger tax bill
  • Rio Tinto heavily blamed by protesters over 41 mine worker deaths
  • UN-backed Rana Plaza schemes two thirds short of target
  • UK carbon capture scheme to be awarded €300m from Brussels
  • GSK caught in further allegations of bribery
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 16, 2014
  • European Parliament passes “landmark” environmental and social reporting law
  • Global auto industry accelerates action on conflict minerals
  • U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fall 10% since 2005
  • UK money transfer firms accused of excessive charges on Africa remittances
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Daily Media Briefing

Daily Media Briefing

April 15, 2014
  • China set to elevate environment over economy in new law
  • Women make more rigorous supply chain auditors, study says
  • Environmental activists being killed in increasing numbers
  • Campaigners call for clarity in Green Bond Principles
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