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July 02, 2020- Novartis reaches $642m settlement with US authorities
- New laws in Singapore appear to give employers ‘almost unfettered power’ over migrant workers’ movements, say NGOs
- Up to 1.6 million new jobs could be created through green Covid-19 recovery
- Rainforest Alliance aims to help ethical growers get climate-smart
- UN agrees to airlines' Covid-19 pleas on offsetting scheme
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July 01, 2020- Netflix launches $100 million plan to boost black lenders
- McDonald's to install EV chargers at all UK drive-thrus
- Philanthropies pump US$50 million into clean energy projects in Southeast Asia to address Covid-19 funding gaps
- South Korea to pump public money into new Indonesian coal despite green election pledges
- YouTube bans prominent white supremacist channels
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June 26, 2020- Unilever to change name of Fair & Lovely skin lightening cream
- Environment groups urge Nippon Paper to scrap Victorian timber from supply chain
- Most oil majors' net-zero strategies are greenwash, with US firms faring the worst, according to report
- Reserve Bank warns of 25% GDP loss by 2100 unless action taken on climate change
- New report by the Committee on Climate Change for green transformation
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June 25, 2020- Ben & Jerry's joins Facebook ad boycott against racist content
- Just 39% of businesses think they are taking enough action on SDGs, UN survey finds
- Tech giants partner with UN Women to provide life-saving information to survivors of domestic violence during COVID-19
- China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, study says
- New initiative to help corporates tackle air pollution as lockdown lifts
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June 23, 2020- Nature restoration can generate 25,000 jobs in aftermath of Covid-19
- BlackRock votes against AB Volvo chief on climate-related grounds
- Women in China are losing out in the workforce, report says
- Consulting firm and Dutch university team up to spur growth of cage-free egg industry in Asia
- Poor communities in Asia get only a ‘very thin trickle’ of economic help during coronavirus crisis, says UN
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June 19, 2020- Companies give employees the day off to celebrate Juneteenth
- Colgate reviews China's Darlie brand amid Black Lives Matter movement
- Businesses urged to give refugees more jobs in Covid-19 era
- Farfetch's new tool to highlight the environmental impact of clothing
- Lyft pledges to shift its two million drivers to electric vehicles by 2030
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June 15, 2020- Unilever to invest €1 billion in climate change fund over 10 years
- World's largest ICT companies failing to tackle human rights abuses in supply chains
- Corporates step up calls for nature restoration policies
- Google's new rules clamp down on discriminatory housing and job ads
- Remote working means UK businesses will underreport 470,000 tonnes of carbon in 2020
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June 12, 2020- Paypal, Apple, YouTube unveil funding worth hundreds of millions to support racial equality causes
- Microsoft bars facial recognition sales to police in wake of Black Lives Matter protests
- Despite pandemic, new U.S. solar capacity will grow 33% in 2020
- Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage, says study
- Businesses outline key asks for Covid-19 recovery policy
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June 11, 2020- Inequality will worsen unless ministers act, says thinktank
- Supertrawlers ‘making a mockery’ of UK’s protected seas
- Ecover directs coronavirus windfall to catalyse climate action
- Landmark million-mile battery to power electric vehicles is ready for production
- Robots could be coming for pandemic-hit jobs, McKinsey says
Daily Media Briefing
June 10, 2020- MP plans law to force employers to reveal Ethnicity Pay Gap
- Russian mining firm accused of using global heating to avoid blame for oil spill
- Twitter to make Juneteenth a company holiday
- Google partners with WWF on platform for fashion brands to track sustainable raw materials
- Britain goes 60 days without coal-fired power generation