Results for January, 2022
Daily Media Briefing
January 31, 2022- US unveils plan to improve cyber defences for water utilities
- Almost all large firms neglecting social sustainability pledges
- Spotify announces plans to target Covid misinformation
- G20 urged to lead on nature protection with more finance
- Report urges no new coal plants for India as batteries improve
Daily Media Briefing
January 28, 2022- Nestlé targets child labour in global cocoa supply chain
- PepsiCo targets plastic in 100% circular economy push
- US judge annuls Gulf of Mexico oil auction over climate impact
- UK Government budget criticised as net-zero incompatible
- Ethnicity is highlighted as next step in UK financial sector diversity
Daily Media Briefing
January 27, 2022- UK is emerging as a global cleantech investment hub
- Battery breakthrough paves way for electric planes
- Brits believe “just transition” in move to net-zero unlikely
- Better air in lockdown may have saved hundreds of lives
- Coffee, cashews & avocados face major shifts as world warms
Daily Media Briefing
January 26, 2022- UK’s biggest private pension fund to shift £5bn from polluters
- China builds 26 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in 2021
- China to allow gene-edited crops in push for food security
- Compass Group bans air-freighted fruit to cut emissions
- Plans for most popular US forest prompt logging concerns
Daily Media Briefing
January 25, 2022- Large EU banks to publish 'pioneering' climate goals data by 2024
- Lufthansa, Air France lobby against EU's climate plans for aviation
- Plastic Bank prevents two billion bottles from entering oceans
- Biden revives 'clean energy' programme with $1b loan guarantee
- Pandemic sees rise in corruption and human rights abuses
Daily Media Briefing
January 24, 2022- Oil giants Total, Chevron to leave Myanmar citing human rights
- Aviva to vote against company directors if climate goals not met
- Oil industry board members to testify on climate disinformation
- Brussels faces legal challenge over sustainable finance rules
- Nanoplastic pollution found at North & South poles for first time
Daily Media Briefing
January 21, 2022- Hundreds of scientists call on PR firms to drop fossil fuel clients
- Facebook stalling report on human rights impact in India
- Global energy transition to cause short-term drop in GDP
- UK Government proposes digital tracking system to target waste
- UK Government pauses introduction of animal welfare policies
Daily Media Briefing
January 20, 2022- State Street to require firms to align reporting with TCFD
- First NI environment strategy 'should be more ambitious'
- Global material resource use hit record high levels in 2021
- EU beats 2020 renewable energy goal, France lags behind
- Global warming 'could reach 4°C by end of this century'
Daily Media Briefing
January 18, 2022- Over 70 big brands call for global pact to cut plastic production
- Climate crisis could cost £1 billion a year by 2050, says UK Government
- Big Tech bears brunt of fines spike for breaches of EU privacy law
- UK offshore windfarm capacity to triple in ScotWind programme
- Ozone harms to East Asian crops cost $63 billion annually