Results for April, 2015
Daily Media Briefing
April 16, 2015- Report: BP dropped green energy projects worth billions to focus on fossil fuels
- Taiwan launches water rationing to fight drought
- Lowe's to stop selling neonic pesticides linked to bee deaths
- Brazil ruling party official held amid Petrobras probe
- European Commission launches scientific debate on how to feed the planet
Daily Media Briefing
April 15, 2015- Report: Ethiopians talk of violent intimidation as their land is earmarked for foreign investors
- CEO surprises staff with new minimum wage of US $70,000
- Boeing and South African Airways aim to quit fossil fuel with tobacco-based jet fuel
- IBM launches new health unit with Apple, J&J and Medtronic
- Procter & Gamble joins plastic recycling effort
Daily Media Briefing
April 14, 2015- Report: Deforestation-free declarations lack accountability, says Rainforest Alliance
- Action for Children and Barclays launch Skills for Success project
- Coca-Cola Africa Foundation pledges water and sanitation programmes for 4 million people
- UNIQLO accused of labour violations
- Contaminated food from Fukushima could enter Britain through legal safety loophole
Daily Media Briefing
April 13, 2015- Nestlé criticised over bottling operations in California
- Fossil fuel-free funds outperformed conventional ones, analysis shows
- Wells Fargo launches $10 million initiative to support cleantech startups
- India freezes Greenpeace bank accounts over 'tax violation'
- Permafrost carbon release to have similar impact as deforestation
Daily Media Briefing
April 10, 2015- UK Prime Minister pledges statutory 'paid volunteering leave'
- AkzoNobel and The Economist Intelligence Unit publish future cities report
- Fair Wear launches living wage portal
- HSBC faces French criminal tax probe
- Report: UK ESOS awareness on the rise, but energy managers remain sceptical
Daily Media Briefing
April 09, 2015- ‘Chevron Tapes’ allegedly show oil giant covering up Amazon contamination
- Australia chases BHP, Rio Tinto on Singapore tax shelter
- Greater economic and political power gives women more seats in boardroom
- European Commission agrees to use social progress tool alongside GDP
- Unilever fast-tracks deforestation pledge into 2015
Daily Media Briefing
April 08, 2015- Mars announces pioneering partnership with World Food Programme on World Health Day
- World Bank welcomes China's new bank as means to fight poverty
- India launches air quality index to give pollution information
- Shell seeks to remove Greenpeace activists from oil rig
- RobecoSAM launches ESG-tilted index for European sovereign bonds
Daily Media Briefing
April 07, 2015- KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut adopt zero deforestation policy for palm oil
- Kellogg’s says international tax clampdown will harm profits
- Guardian Media Group to divest its £800m fund from fossil fuels
- Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings launches new ESG platform
- Migrants building UAE cultural hub 'working in prison conditions'
Daily Media Briefing
April 02, 2015- Indonesia to extend ban on forest clearing
- New Oil and Gas Authority will be able to impose £1 million fines and revoke licence
- The UPS Foundation links tracking technology with global humanitarian relief efforts
- EU to ban owners from scrapping ships on South Asian beaches
- McDonald’s to raise pay at outlets it operates
