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April 25, 2018- Whitbread to spin off Costa Coffee within two years
- US environment agency proposes limits to science used in rulemaking
- SEC imposes $35 million fine over Yahoo data breach
- Legal and General plan to rescind investments based on companies’ climate change record
- UK runs without coal power for three days in a row
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April 24, 2018- FIFA launches new carbon offset campaign for 2018 World Cup
- Singapore’s first zero-waste grocery store to open
- KPMG faces rare shareholder protest over General Electric and Wells Fargo audits
- YouTube reveals it removed 8.3 million videos from site over 3-month period
- Fortune 500 companies join AFF, GreenBlue on Forest Sustainability Tool
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April 23, 2018- Report: Unilever, Tesco, Diageo top in Modern Slavery Act compliance study
- UK set to force companies to reveal ratio of CEO pay to workers
- Michael Bloomberg to write $4.5 million cheque for Paris Climate Agreement to cover decrease in funding from US
- Lyft says every ride will be carbon neutral with clean-air plan
- Bola Adesola, Standard Chartered – Nigeria, and Paul Polman, Unilever, appointed UN Global Compact Board Vice-Chairs
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April 20, 2018- Standard Chartered pulls out of funding 1,200-megawatt Vietnam coal plant over climate policy conflict
- Wells Fargo said to be target of $1 billion US fine
- Facebook moves 1.5 billion users out of reach of new European privacy law
- British firms boost spending on businesses doing good
- SP Group to launch platform for home owners to sell solar energy certificates
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April 19, 2018- IMF sounds alarm on excessive global borrowing
- Walmart to double charging network for electric vehicles
- P&G to buy German Merck’s consumer health unit for €3.4 billion
- Costa Coffee to recycle equivalent of all its takeaway cups each year
- EU circular economy plans clear major hurdle after MEP approval
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April 18, 2018- Starbucks to close all US stores for one-day racial bias training
- UK to become first developed economy to examine Paris Agreement commitments
- BP’s low carbon plan dismissed by environmentalists as “greenwash”
- China’s Sina Weibo reverses ban on LGBT content after outcry from users
- Accounting for Sustainability Project launches guide to encourage integration of sustainability into strategy
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April 17, 2018- UK government promises £61 million to tackle ocean plastic pollution with Commonwealth nations
- Investors, with $1 trillion, put weight behind call for big brands to step up climate targets
- Santander chair calls EU rules on payments unfair
- New Green-e Renewable Energy Standard for Chile launches pilot with Viña Concha y Toro
- Former Wells Fargo trader sues bank, claims wrongful termination due to plan to complain to regulators
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April 16, 2018- Carbon dioxide from ships at sea to be regulated for first time
- Corporate America poised to unveil record buybacks
- Danone North America and Canada become B Corp certified
- Co-op hits emissions target three years early
- Shell asks Indonesia to reconsider new fuel pricing policy
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April 13, 2018- Pret a Manger launches the UK’s plastic bottle deposit return scheme
- Report: World can limit global warming “without bioenergy with carbon capture and storage”
- US green group to launch methane detection satellite
- Indonesian billionaire using “shadow companies” to clear forest for palm oil, report alleges
- Singapore’s competition watchdog sets interim measures for Grab-Uber merger
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April 12, 2018- New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of “carbon-neutral future”
- Nestle pledges to make all packaging recyclable by 2025 but faces criticism from Greenpeace
- Responsible Mining Index released, industry must improve approach to human rights and environmental protection
- IKEA Singapore gives Malaysian staff extra day of leave to vote in elections
- Argentina accused of caving to Trump by dropping carbon price from G20 talks