Results for October, 2022
Daily Media Briefing
October 31, 2022- Staff at Co-op to be given paid time off for fertility treatments
- Marks & Spencer to hire out clothes to cost-conscious shoppers
- GFANZ’s decision to drop Race to Zero criteria sparks concerns
- Apple to increase global supply chain decarbonisation efforts
- Twitter targeted by coordinated troll attack after Musk takeover
Daily Media Briefing
October 28, 2022- UNEP: World on track for up to 2.6°C temperature rise by 2100
- BMW revs up plan for EV charging stations in UK's national parks
- Profits at world’s 7 biggest oil firms soar to almost £150bn this year
- Investors set deforestation and equality targets for farming assets
- Report black women found to be missing from UK tech industry
Daily Media Briefing
October 27, 2022- Food giants investing ‘record amounts’ in plant-based protein
- Ørsted & WWF team up to boost offshore wind farm biodiversity
- Australian regulator issues first ‘greenwashing’ fine on energy firm
- Annual pay growth eroded as gender pay gap widens, says ONS
- Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025, says IEA
Daily Media Briefing
October 26, 2022- Failure to investigate UK imports linked to Uyghur labour unlawful
- Businesses call for mandatory nature impact disclosures by 2030
- Only half of businesses decarbonising in line with 1.5°C target
- Mondelez pledges to invest $600mn on sustainable cocoa sourcing
- Adidas cuts ties with Kanye West over anti-Semitic comments
Daily Media Briefing
October 25, 2022- Credit Suisse fined €238mn in French money laundering deal
- Singapore pledges 2030 emissions cuts, scales hydrogen plans
- Industry associations block laws that could tackle biodiversity crisis
- New fossil fuel projects incompatible with 1.5°C climate pathway
- FCA to examine how to regulate big tech’s financial services
Daily Media Briefing
October 24, 2022- ISSB confirms Scope 3 emissions to be included in disclosure standard
- Church of England sues Volkswagen over climate lobbying reporting
- India fines Google $161m for suite of anti-competition practices
- Reckitt launches paper-based packaging for Finish dishwashing tablets
- Global deforestation pledge will likely be missed without urgent action
ESG’s accounting frontier – corporate tax avoidance
October 21, 2022Corporate tax avoidance carries social costs for governments. That puts pressure on businesses to consider the impacts and risks that their tax practices face.
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Time to get your house in order
October 21, 2022As the pace of regulation picks up, companies need to think about what they can do now to avoid the risks of non-compliance in future.
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How TCFD and TNFD are shaping climate regulation
October 21, 2022 Although TCFD has been developed to improve and increase the reporting of climate-related financial information, too many companies still see it as a tick-box exercise to comply with regulations. Read more >
Daily Media Briefing
October 21, 2022- Lloyds Bank vows to stop financing new oil and gas projects
- TikTok to ban children livestreaming following investigation
- Texas sues Google for allegedly collecting biometric data
- Consumers confused over net-zero claims in ads, ASA warns
- Zara customers offered in-house swap, mend & donate service