Results for Climate Change
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January 28, 2021- Hundreds of transport and industrial businesses form ‘Mission Possible Partnership’ climate coalition
- US President Biden signs executive orders on climate change as national security priority
- UK pension schemes face new climate risk reporting rules
- Mastercard commits to net-zero carbon by 2050
- UKRI announces £24 million of funding for projects to curb plastic waste
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January 27, 2021- BlackRock pushes companies to adopt 2050 net zero emissions goal
- S&P warns 13 oil and gas companies they risk downgrades as renewables pick up steam
- Two-thirds of global population think climate change is an emergency, UN finds
- 2 in 3 banks have no commitments to stop financing deforestation
- Ikea to sell spare parts in sustainability push
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January 21, 2021- Biden returns US to Paris climate accord hours after becoming president
- Unilever sets supply chain living wage aim and €2bn diversity commitment
- Asian garment makers fashion united front to pressure Western brands
- Microsoft teams up with UK start-up to curb climate impact of aircraft contrails
- Heinz removes plastics from canned product packaging
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January 20, 2021- UK Government votes to allow food imports with lower environmental standards
- EU set to adopt carbon border levy
- Fighting climate crisis made harder by Covid-19 inequality, says WEF
- Black and minority ethnic workers hit harder by Covid-19 job losses
- Online algorithms should face regulatory scrutiny, says UK watchdog
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January 18, 2021- France’s Total quits powerful US oil lobby over climate policy
- US retailers told to target forced labour in China after cotton import crackdown
- 2020 was hottest year on record by narrow margin
- Facebook to ban ads promoting weapon accessories, protective gear in US
- Mars and DHL plot £350 million UK logistics hubs to slash one million road miles
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January 15, 2021- Health and tech groups aim to create digital Covid ‘vaccination passport’
- Concern grows over WhatsApp's privacy disclaimer
- Chevron and Shell-Exxon invest in carbon capture and storage
- PepsiCo sets net-zero by 2040 goal
- Toyota settles US probe into delayed emissions defect reports for $180 million
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January 14, 2021- Siemens spin-offs create breakthrough in mass renewable hydrogen production
- Major asset managers still voting against tougher climate measures
- UK urged to introduce mandatory climate votes at AGMs
- TSB and Aviva Investors plot pathway to net-zero carbon
- Half of women put off by ‘masculine’ language in job adverts
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January 08, 2021- CEOs and business groups condemn US Capitol Hill riot
- China prepares to launch its first emissions trading scheme
- M&S backs call to stop forced labour in China's Xinjiang
- Air Protein raises $32 million to spur commercialisation of lab-made meat
- Circular economy businesses outperform those linear economy businesses, says survey
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January 07, 2021- Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook
- Exxon discloses for the first time emissions from burning its fuels
- Banks 'have provided $1.7 trillion of unconditional support to plastic polluters since 2015'
- Lenovo to deliver global rollout of customer offset scheme
- Record 500,000 people take part in Veganuary as supermarkets promote plant-based food in mainstream media
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January 04, 2021- UK carmakers have three years to source local electric car batteries
- Macquarie confirms over £3 billion financing of UK green projects
- Sustainable investments to accelerate in 2021 as ESG focus intensifies, says BlackRock
- Australia records fourth-warmest year in 2020, despite La Niña
- South Asia could see 40 million climate migrants by 2030