August 23, 2013
Facebook leads partnership to overcome barriers to global internet access; UK Government to withdraw subsidies from “unsustainable” biomass production; Apple reveals solar farm; UK high street chains accused of artificial discount pricing Read more >
August 22, 2013
Shareholders to ING: stop investing in Sudan; 90 percent of Indonesian palm oil producers still not certified sustainable; Hovis employees to strike over zero hours agency staff; Fukushima warning: danger level at nuclear plant jumps to “serious”; UK lenders face £1.3 billion consumer compensation bill; Read more >
August 21, 2013
Review of working practices urged after intern’s death; Study: businesses can boost profits through sharing profits with employees; Corporate sponsors stand by winter games; Barclays to go beyond watchdog rules on customer complaints; SC Johnson builds sustainable insecticide supply Read more >
August 20, 2013
Study: investors are still slow to embrace sustainability; UK male bosses’ bonuses are double those of female colleagues in management roles; UK shopper lands Tesco with £300k fine over strawberries; Activists turn up pressure over UK fracking; Launch of first driverless electric vehicle in Singapore Read more >
August 19, 2013
JP Morgan faces US probe over alleged hiring of children of Chinese officials to win business; US telecommunications industry lobbies to relax consumer privacy rules; CleanTech One officially opens as Singapore’s first eco business park; Vodafone questioned as UK Government supplier after multimillion pound tax deal revealed Read more >
August 16, 2013
APRIL banned from using FSC trademark to market paper products; Haiti police raid warehouses in plastics ban crackdown; Boston pilots composting programme and proposes commercial food waste ban; Apple brings in tougher rules on purchases in children’s apps; Cineworld pledges to continue with UK zero hours contracts Read more >
August 15, 2013
Google tells US court: Gmail users can’t expect privacy; Samsung faces £70 million damages claim over working conditions; Spawning a sustainable industry for farm raised salmon; China to invest in energy saving industries to tackle pollution; Head of Indonesia energy regulator held in corruption probe Read more >
August 14, 2013
Softbank's Yahoo! Japan refuses to take down ads selling elephant ivory, whale products; Danish pension fund backs UK straw fuelled power plant; Taiwan says nuclear plant may have leaked toxic water; Coca-Cola launches new reuse and recycling initiative Read more >
August 13, 2013
Climate change “firmly established” as a material risk for investors; Report: Food companies and investors ignore environmental risks at their peril; Only a tenth of EU solar waste recycled; California aims to push renewable energy storage; Unpaid bills blamed for Thames Water bill increase Read more >
August 12, 2013
Asda to offer retail sales degree; Halcyon Agri publishes the first sustainability report in the rubber processing industry; Centrica chief criticises UK energy plan; Fracking and drought leaves Texan town without water; UK Taxman to hit ‘cowboy’ advisers with £1 million fines Read more >
