Results for Corporate Citizenship
Daily Media Briefing
April 30, 2018- Sainsbury’s confirms plans to merge with Asda and cut prices
- US insurers not doing enough on sustainability, new report shows
- Shell joins REDD+ Business Initiative in move to step up deforestation efforts
- Veolia launches online organic waste marketplace
- EU votes to ban bee-harming pesticides
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April 27, 2018- Starbucks reports 150% increase in reusable cup use since introduction of 5p charge
- IBM teams up with jewellery companies to tackle blood diamonds with blockchain
- Report: Oil company values likely to fall within five years, warn asset managers
- Singaporean data privacy watchdog proposes new law to merge rules on spam & unsolicited calls
- Global warming and plastic waste top UK environmental concerns
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April 26, 2018- Artificial intelligence research in the UK to be boosted by £300 million of public money
- Citigroup & Bank of America criticised by US senator for their firearms bans
- UK supermarkets launch voluntary pledge to cut plastic packaging
- Seven member states push for EU to raise climate targets
- Telstra ordered to pay AU$10 million after misleading billing charges
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April 25, 2018- Whitbread to spin off Costa Coffee within two years
- US environment agency proposes limits to science used in rulemaking
- SEC imposes $35 million fine over Yahoo data breach
- Legal and General plan to rescind investments based on companies’ climate change record
- UK runs without coal power for three days in a row
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April 24, 2018- FIFA launches new carbon offset campaign for 2018 World Cup
- Singapore’s first zero-waste grocery store to open
- KPMG faces rare shareholder protest over General Electric and Wells Fargo audits
- YouTube reveals it removed 8.3 million videos from site over 3-month period
- Fortune 500 companies join AFF, GreenBlue on Forest Sustainability Tool
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April 23, 2018- Report: Unilever, Tesco, Diageo top in Modern Slavery Act compliance study
- UK set to force companies to reveal ratio of CEO pay to workers
- Michael Bloomberg to write $4.5 million cheque for Paris Climate Agreement to cover decrease in funding from US
- Lyft says every ride will be carbon neutral with clean-air plan
- Bola Adesola, Standard Chartered – Nigeria, and Paul Polman, Unilever, appointed UN Global Compact Board Vice-Chairs
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April 20, 2018- Standard Chartered pulls out of funding 1,200-megawatt Vietnam coal plant over climate policy conflict
- Wells Fargo said to be target of $1 billion US fine
- Facebook moves 1.5 billion users out of reach of new European privacy law
- British firms boost spending on businesses doing good
- SP Group to launch platform for home owners to sell solar energy certificates
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April 19, 2018- IMF sounds alarm on excessive global borrowing
- Walmart to double charging network for electric vehicles
- P&G to buy German Merck’s consumer health unit for €3.4 billion
- Costa Coffee to recycle equivalent of all its takeaway cups each year
- EU circular economy plans clear major hurdle after MEP approval
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April 18, 2018- Starbucks to close all US stores for one-day racial bias training
- UK to become first developed economy to examine Paris Agreement commitments
- BP’s low carbon plan dismissed by environmentalists as “greenwash”
- China’s Sina Weibo reverses ban on LGBT content after outcry from users
- Accounting for Sustainability Project launches guide to encourage integration of sustainability into strategy
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April 17, 2018- UK government promises £61 million to tackle ocean plastic pollution with Commonwealth nations
- Investors, with $1 trillion, put weight behind call for big brands to step up climate targets
- Santander chair calls EU rules on payments unfair
- New Green-e Renewable Energy Standard for Chile launches pilot with Viña Concha y Toro
- Former Wells Fargo trader sues bank, claims wrongful termination due to plan to complain to regulators