Results for 2019
Are we headed for a four-day week?
September 02, 2019In July, the Henley Business School published new research claiming a four-day working week makes business sense, and could save UK businesses an estimated £104bn annually. The study said a shortened working week increased staff productivity, reduced sick […]
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Amazon’s commitment to retraining 100,000 employees
September 02, 2019Last month, Amazon announced it will be investing US$700m to retrain 100,000 of its employees – equivalent to one third of its US workforce – in new technologies as part of its Upskilling 2025 strategy. The employee training […]
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September 02, 2019- BlackRock in Amazon: 'World's largest investor in deforestation'
- Lab meat firms join forces to create new lobby group
- Scotland's first subsidy-free onshore windfarm to be operational by 2020
- Bosses who do not believe in gender bias seen hiring fewer women
- Vanguard seeks more boardroom diversity and wants details
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August 30, 2019- Timberland and Vans owner boycotts Brazilian leather in fire protest
- Australia gives lowest ever outlook for Great Barrier Reef
- Vattenfall and Shell's NewMotion agree UK roaming deal for electric vehicles
- Offshore wind boost, as 2.8GW of new UK capacity edges closer to development
- EU paper recyclers 'in crisis' as China waste import ban bites
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August 29, 2019- UK to double international climate investment contribution
- Pinterest to direct vaccine searches to health sites
- Mars and Schneider Electric join G7 Business for Inclusive Growth Coalition
- India set to outlaw six single-use plastic products
- Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia, Lush and Seventh Generation to take part in global climate strikes
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August 28, 2019- Abbott makes its blueprint for STEM internships public
- World leaders step up climate and Amazon fire funding
- Sainsbury’s to accept glass in deposit return trials for bottles
- Primark to train 160,000 cotton farmers in sustainability drive
- Mitsubishi invests in UK company to bring off-grid solar to Asia
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August 27, 2019- Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for fuelling Oklahoma opioid crisis
- China passes law allowing regions to set resource taxes
- IEMA: Funding cuts threatening UK's green spaces and biodiversity
- Underground line to heat up London homes during winter
- Willmott Dixon to use non-recyclable plastic in new roads at Bristol housing development
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August 23, 2019- Fashion titans Chanel, H&M sign pact to curb environmental damage
- Report: Move water to top of political agenda to deliver environmental and social wins
- Hasbro will phase out plastics from packaging
- Iceland collects more than one million plastic bottles in reverse vending scheme
- 'World first': Aldershot railway track powered by solar
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August 22, 2019- UK bosses earn 117 times average worker despite pay cut
- Twinings partners with WaterAid to improve sanitation in tea supply chains
- Amazon under fire for new packaging that cannot be recycled
- Poll: Concerns over climate change hit record high
- Jair Bolsonaro claims NGOs behind Amazon forest fire surge – but provides no evidence
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August 21, 2019- Japan is exporting the most polluting kind of coal power to Asian countries
- Montara oil spill: site's new operator rejects suggestion it couldn't afford second clean-up
- Government seeks views on food system for new national strategy
- Iceland holds funeral for giant glacier that melted after record heatwave
- Resale clothing company thredUP gets $175 million in funding