Daily Media Briefing

• VW to build plug-in hybrid cars in China as pollution reforms open the market
• Documents reveal Shell and Rio Tinto human rights lobbying
• BP faces shareholder pressure over Russian stake amid Crimea standoff
• SC Johnson achieves zero landfill status at eighth manufacturing facility

Daily Media Briefing

• Europe votes for clinical trial transparency
• Mozilla chief quits in gay marriage backlash
• European automakers join up on £31 million hydrogen fuel cell project
• BT debuts free online energy saving training tool
• EnviroFlight advancing sustainable seafood and reducing waste with fly larvae

Daily Media Briefing

• Apple, Facebook and Google named as top green internet leaders
• Ecover to replace palm oil with algae
• H&M, Inditex join campaign to eliminate endangered forests from viscose clothing
• HSBC has 'much work' to do on anti-laundering fixes, U.S. says
• ‘Culture of cover-up’ at GM, senator claims

Daily Media Briefing

• Pharma industry praised for investments in Africa
• 50 million tonnes of e-waste generated every year – and it is increasing
• B&Q reduces polystyrene packaging with new 'teabag technology'
• Half of young UK women are bullied in the workplace
• Fixing financial firms’ moral compass will take years, says UK regulator

Digital responsibilities: focusing engagement on the issues that matter most

Daily Media Briefing

• UK ethical consumer market now worth £54 billion – up 12% in 2012
• India’s Congress party pledges jobs for low-caste workers
• GSK ‘public-private’ deal heralds revolution in search for new drug treatments
• UK announces competition inquiry into ‘Big Six’ energy firms
• Draft principles for sustainable beef production open for public comment

Daily Media Briefing

• Body Shop removes all products from Chinese duty free stores
• Climate Chief warns battle to curb warming is becoming harder
• Biomass to power thousands of Cornish homes
• Audi’s traffic light technology has potential to cut CO₂ emissions
• New partnership to brighten cities and improve mobile broadband connectivity

Daily Media Briefing

• Bangladesh factory shutdowns cause thousands of job losses
• NGOs warn of squeeze on banana growers
• Orange pulls advertising from Uganda’s anti-gay Red Pepper newspaper
• Sir Richard Branson says climate change deniers should ‘get out of the way’
• UK energy bills to come with compulsory QR barcodes

Daily Media Briefing

• Facebook tightens its rules on gun sales
• Rolls-Royce sets up whistleblower hotline for staff with bribery concerns
• £100 billion red alert over UK green energy gap
• eBay aiming to become sustainability ‘facilitator’ for brands
• Awareness growing around environmental benefits of cross-sector collaboration

Daily Media Briefing

• UK investors to use AGMs to get women on boards
• Green buildings study to investigate business case for sustainable workplaces
• China considers smog research facility
• Rolls Royce faces fresh bribery allegations in India
• Dyson exploring use of biopolymers for ‘closed loop’ vacuum cleaners