Results for December, 2016
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December 23, 2016- World's first solar panel road opens in Normandy village
- British Airways cabin crews suspend strikes over Christmas
- Shanghai water supply hit by 100-tonne wave of garbage
- Product watchdog faces judicial review over handling of Whirlpool dryer scandal
- Gender Pay Gap Falls To 5% For Millennials In Their 20s
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December 22, 2016- Uber self-driving car registrations revoked in San Francisco
- PepsiCo takes on Coca-Cola with Latin American water plan
- Brits reveal growing appetite for sustainable diets
- India plans nearly 60% of electricity capacity from non-fossil fuels by 2027
- BP withdraws application to drill for oil in Great Australian Bight
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December 21, 2016- Obama bans oil drilling ‘permanently’ in millions of acres of ocean
- China riot police seal off city centre after smog protesters put masks on statues
- Ministers explore applying microbead ban to household products
- Lithuanian migrants win £1m in first modern-day slavery case
- VW reaches $1 Billion Deal in Ongoing Emissions Scandal
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December 20, 2016- UKcondemned for deporting survivors trafficking back to Vietnam
- Facebook Gets EU Antitrust Complaint over WhatsApp Takeover Bid
- UN Women releases CEDAW for youth
- Wrangler and Toyota Celebrate Major Achievements in Water Savings
- Ambition In The Emission Trading Scheme Backed By EU Environment Ministers
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December 19, 2016- Dublin claims Brussels exceed powers over Apple tax
- US drugmaker charges 200 times UK price for common worm pill
- Costa partners with bio-bean to give waste coffee new lease of life
- Solar power becoming world's cheapest form of electricity production, analysts say
- Farmers in Sudan battle climate change and hunger as desert creeps closer
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December 16, 2016- Wildlife smugglers using Facebook to sell ivory and rhino horn
- Five major pharma firms break ABPI code of conduct, according to watchdog
- JD Sports to investigate conditions at warehouse after ‘prison’ claim
- Unilever and UN Women announce a global partnership to improve women’s safety in the tea industry
- P&G hit energy reduction goal four years early
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December 15, 2016- Ikea shows strong growth in sales of sustainable products
- EasyJet vows to recruit more female pilots
- California regulator puts brakes on Uber’s self-driving cars
- ‘One billion’ affected by Yahoo hack
- EU easing of fishing quotas raises fears over dwindling stocks
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December 14, 2016- Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures releases recommendations
- Capgemini UK announces industry’s first science-based targets
- Cameroon enabling Central African Republic conflict diamonds
- Fossil fuel divestment funds double to $5tn in a year
- Poland marketing inaugural euro five-year Green Bond
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December 13, 2016- Allianz chief hits out at investment industry’s short-termism
- General Mills and Department of Agriculture aim to stop the death spiral of honeybees
- HSBC’s Hong Kong rainbow lions spark LGBT rights debate
- Uber employees secretly tracked politicians and celebrities, lawsuit claims
- Leaked BP report reveals risk of lethal accidents
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December 12, 2016- Rio Tinto and Sodexo propose drones to monitor workers’ private lives
- Amazon workers in Scotland sleeping in tents near warehouses to save money
- Expedia retains top spot as best place to work in Glassdoor UK’s Employee Choice Awards
- Manufacturers call for UK government action to grow energy efficiency
- VW ‘dieselgate’ payout offer outrageously low, says Mayor of London