Results for Corporate Citizenship
Daily Media Briefing
January 17, 2018- BlackRock chief Larry Fink calls for “new model of shareholder engagement”
- EU declares war on plastic waste
- Singapore’s Code of Corporate Governance to be made more user-friendly for companies
- Teva to pay $22.1 million to Israel authorities to settle foreign bribe claims
- Companies unite to end modern slavery in Asia
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January 16, 2018- Citigroup becomes first big Wall Street bank to disclose gender pay gap data for US, UK & Germany
- Iceland supermarket chain to eliminate plastic on all own-branded products
- McKinsey ordered by South African court to forfeit fees that may be proceeds of corruption
- Virgin Trains to once again stock the Daily Mail following accusations of censorship
- Saudi energy firm adopts cryptocurrency in push to reduce overall cost of solar energy
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January 15, 2018- French salmonella baby milk scandal 'affects 83 countries'
- Malaysia leads the way with new guidelines
- Loss of US retail industry jobs is hitting women hardest
- Open Banking 'revolution' to challenge banks' dominance
- Russia and US join global pact to restrict fishing in thawing Arctic in deal to protect marine life
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January 12, 2018- Walmart announces salary increase and bonuses – then closes 63 stores
- Facebook to change news feed to encourage more meaningful social interactions
- PwC banned from auditing listed companies in India for two years
- Chinese city of Taiyuan shifts entire taxi fleet to electric power
- Princes, British food company, linked to Italian labour abuse case
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January 11, 2018- New York City sues Shell, ExxonMobil and others over climate change damages
- South Korean government to prepare bill to ban bitcoin trading
- Report: Attempts to prevent forced labour fail to address root causes of exploitation
- World’s biggest thermal solar plant to be built in South Australia
- China to enforce new standards for the import of foreign solid waste
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January 10, 2018- Report: Sustainalytics examine the occurrence of ESG incidents
- Bonyunyu Dam project in Kenya met with protests
- Plastic microbeads ban comes into force in UK
- Exxon claims “civil conspiracy” in California climate change lawsuit
- Chinese government to plant 6.6 million hectares of trees in 2018
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January 09, 2018- BBC faces human rights probe over gender pay gap
- Google sued amidst claims of discriminating against conservative white men
- More than half of Singaporeans want sustainable supply chains
- Apple investors call for action to prevent iPhone addiction in children
- Olam CEO named chair of World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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January 08, 2018- KPMG quits role as Grenfell inquiry advisor following conflict of interest allegations
- New law forces German companies to reveal gender pay gap to workers
- 5p tax on single use plastic bottles may come into effect, says Theresa May
- Death of Indian garment worker highlights unsafe working conditions in India’s “textile valley”
- Insurance firms refuse to cover companies that use coal
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January 05, 2018- Apple products under threat of data-hack
- Major electronics manufacturers fined for price fixing
- Waitrose ban sales of ‘energy drinks’ to under-16s
- H&M launch sustainable sportswear range
- NRDC launch IPE Green Supply Chain Map, with New Balance, PUMA and others featured
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January 04, 2018- “Fat Cat Thursday” – pay disparity between bosses and workers widens
- Workers held captive in Indian mills supplying Hugo Boss, Next and Mothercare
- Facebook declines to say why it deletes certain political accounts, but not others
- McDonald’s UK gives pay rise to staff in response to strikes
- Presidential palace of Chile powered by solar panels