Results for Corporate Citizenship
Daily Media Briefing
April 08, 2021- Target to spend over $2 billion with Black-owned businesses by 2025
- China reveals co-operation with EU on green investment standards
- BlackRock’s CEO wants more sustainability data from private companies
- UK says its seabed is more valuable than oil and fishing
- Shell invests in sustainable aviation fuel maker LanzaJet
Daily Media Briefing
April 07, 2021- Goldman Sachs and Starbucks among organizations pledging to close racial wealth gap in U.S.
- BNP Paribas Asset Management tightens green bond criteria to combat greenwashing
- UK public companies fail to report adequately on climate risks
- NHS director calls for tax on gambling firms to fund addiction treatment
- Danone-owned dairy giant unveils lifetime carbon emissions for its products
Daily Media Briefing
April 06, 2021- US investors set to test companies’ handling of coronavirus
- World Bank revises climate policy but stops short of halting fossil fuel funding
- Zurich Insurance to require investee companies to set Paris-aligned climate targets
- China’s Longi, the world’s biggest solar company, joins the hydrogen market
- H&M launches initiative highlighting sustainable fashion processes and innovation
Daily Media Briefing
April 01, 2021- Investors ditching fossil fuel stocks as value drops by billions of dollars
- Consumer goods giants plot course to deforestation-free supply chains
- Biden unveils $2 trillion investment plan with focus on green infrastructure and jobs
- Google, BMW, Volvo, and Samsung back WWF’s call for ban on deep-sea mining
- Germany allows carbon tax exemptions for industry, with strings
Daily Media Briefing
March 31, 2021- Reckitt partners with WWF, pledging £10 million donation
- China’s Xiaomi to launch electric car business with $10 billion investment
- Major US airlines commit to carbon neutrality by 2050
- UK Government proposes making tobacco firms pay for litter clean up
- Forest destruction surged in 2020 even as global economy slowed
Will Tesla make the grade to join the S&P 500 ESG Index?
March 31, 2021 Despite specialising in “green” products, Tesla’s sustainability disclosure and performance scores need to shift significantly. Read more >
SFDR: Europe’s first step to combatting greenwashing in financial services
March 31, 2021 With asset managers and others offering financial products in the EU now having to disclose the reality of their sustainability claims, the mandatory indicators still fall short. Read more >
UK accounting regulator calls on companies to make reports more accessible
March 31, 2021 How the plans for extra information tailored to non-expert readers will help make corporate reporting more agile and relevant. But uniform reporting remains unlikely. Read more >
Daily Media Briefing
March 30, 2021- One-third of the UK's biggest businesses signed up to 'Race to Zero'
- Volvo is set to give all employees 24 weeks of paid parental leave
- Vanguard commits to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
- Global warming could cut over 60 countries' credit ratings by 2030
- Amazon hit with series of allegations over workers’ rights
Daily Media Briefing
March 29, 2021- BlackRock and dozens of big-name investors join Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative
- US President invites 40 world leaders to virtual climate crisis summit
- Asda to compensate workers after UK Supreme Court backs equal pay demands
- MUFG and Sumitomo face climate votes at AGMs as activism grows in Japan
- EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label