December 20, 2012
Nestlé makes case for water pricing; Investors call for sustainable food solutions; Pressure on gun industry after school shooting; Penguin settles with US over claims of e-book price setting; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in '$3bn Libor loss' Read more >
December 19, 2012
Apple, Dell, HP ‘Better at Supply Chain Disclosure’; ‘Trump Towers Rio’ to displace hundreds from favela; UBS fined $1.5bn for Libor rigging; Bangladesh garment industry demands urgent action on deadly fire report Read more >
December 18, 2012
Walmart accused of widespread bribery in Mexico; Allianz to pay $12.3m US anti-bribery fine; Google close to deal with US regulators over patents dispute; Europe calls for an end to wasteful products; EPA tightens soot pollution standard Read more >
December 17, 2012
Executives launch campaign to end slavery; Credit Suisse to face age bias case; Bechtel sparks row with bid for UK nuclear clean up contract; Legacy giving partnership produces £7m in first six months; China drives growth in environmental certification Read more >
December 13, 2012
Global framework to harmonise product lifecycle analysis; Dash for gas could add £600 to bills; Waitrose halts Shell venture; Google “proud” of tax avoidance scheme; Mitsubishi fined for US sanctions breaches Read more >
December 12, 2012
Still too few women in boardroom, warns ABI; American Apparel ad ‘appeared to sexualise a child’; HSBC to spend $700m vetting clients; Northern Rock to refund £270m after blunder; DFID’s public-private partnerships under scrutiny Read more >
December 11, 2012
UK banks hit by record $2.6bn US fines; India to investigate Walmart lobbying claims; ‘Rarely has so little been achieved’ at Doha climate talks; Statkraft to build £70m Scottish wind farm; Big boost to US solar capacity in 2012 Read more >
December 10, 2012
RBS launches £200m Carbon Reduction Fund; US and UK agree safer banks plan; Government could buy up to £750m of green energy; Walmart blocked safety push in Bangladesh, says report Read more >
December 07, 2012
Banks fined $2.4bn for sanction breaches and money laundering; Starbucks pledges £20m tax ‘donation’; Rolls-Royce warns of bribery concerns; UK and Germany launch fund to help poor nations cut emissions; M&S takes “Shwopping Read more >
December 06, 2012
Unilever leads as companies increase climate transparency; H&M to launch global clothes collecting initiative; Starbucks considers £10m tax offer after sales slump; Waitrose urged to freeze links with Shell's Arctic drilling; Record €1.47bn fine for TV cartels Read more >