Results for Digital Ethics
Daily Media Briefing
May 05, 2022- Shell quarterly profits soar to $9.1 billion admit calls for windfall tax
- Data broker stops selling information on visits to abortion providers
- Barclays and Standard Chartered shareholders reject climate plans
- EU accuses Apple of breaking competition law over contactless pay
- US consumers recycle just 5% of their plastic waste, studies show
Daily Media Briefing
April 27, 2022- Investors push Nestlé and Kraft Heinz to set new health targets
- Elon Musk Twitter takeover sparks fears around misinformation
- Europe faces critical shortage of metals needed for clean energy
- Food, fuel price shocks from Ukraine war to last at least 3 years
- Indonesia’s indefinite palm oil export ban met with mixed response
Daily Media Briefing
April 21, 2022- Apple to introduce child safety feature that scans messages for nudity
- Arla Foods to give methane-reducing feed to 10,000 cows across Europe
- Denmark proposes corporate carbon tax to meet its climate targets
- Thames Water discharged raw sewage into rivers 5,028 times in 2021
- World Bank to create $170 billion emergency fund to help poorest nations
ESG disclosure: Using fancy data, not fancy words
April 21, 2022 Investors are increasingly requiring companies to back their sustainability claims with hard evidence. Corporates can’t just claim they’re sustainable, they have to prove it now too… Read more >Daily Media Briefing
April 12, 2022- YouTube blocks Russian parliament channel, drawing ire from officials
- KFC faces backlash over ‘misleading’ portrayal of chicken welfare in its farms
- Food banks ‘deeply concerned’ about suffering amid increase in demand
- UK must ban plastic waste exports to poor countries, says Environment Agency
- Study: renewables & energy efficiency create more jobs than fossil fuels
Daily Media Briefing
April 08, 2022- Study finds microplastics in almost 90% of leading cosmetics products
- Countries that sanctioned Myanmar’s military, increase timber imports
- Meta targets new revenues with digital tokens and non-fungible tokens
- Pinterest bans posting of false and misleading climate-related content
- West Africa is facing its worst food crisis in a decade, aid groups warn
Daily Media Briefing
April 01, 2022- Brussels targets greenwashing, planned obsolescence in EU rules
- Women-led UK firms struggle to attract equal capital investment
- Businesses fail to back net-zero with carbon reduction plans
- Starbucks pays £5m in UK corporation tax despite £95m in profits
- Meta paid consultancy to push negative media against rival TikTok
Daily Media Briefing
March 31, 2022- UN biodiversity talks end without strong treaty to halt nature loss
- Kellogg’s workers win significant raises and benefits following striking
- Swiss Re investors debate chair revote over lack of gender diversity
- Facebook algorithm drives sceptics towards climate change denial
- Report finds that Asian banks are not delivering on decarbonisation
Daily Media Briefing
March 25, 2022- UK Transport Secretary calls on P&O boss to quit after sackings
- Europe agrees to new legislation curbing big tech dominance
- Rhino bond sold by World Bank in first issuance of its kind
- Labor promises review of Australia’s carbon credits integrity after allegations
- US lawmakers push for global food aid funding as UN warns of famine
Daily Media Briefing
March 15, 2022- Shell directors sued for ‘failing to prepare company for net-zero’
- Authority calls for legal definitions for environmental terminology
- BrewDog CEO hired investigators to monitor former employees
- NGO coalition calls for UN to adopt nature-positive framework
- Russian authorities label Instagram as “extremist organisation”