Results for Environment
Daily Media Briefing
July 08, 2020- CDP kicks off corporate temperature rating system
- Boohoo dropped by Next, Asos and Zalando over exploitation claims
- Sport broadcasters form new sustainability consortium
- 'Disappointing' Zuckerberg meeting fails to yield results, say Facebook boycott organizers
- Shell plots course for a decarbonised shipping industry
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July 07, 2020- Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok among firms 'pausing' police help in Hong Kong
- Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan
- Fear over rise in animal-to-human diseases
- Three quarters of UK businesses feel threatened by climate crisis
- Covid-19 lockdown gives rise to deforestation across Asia and South America
Daily Media Briefing
July 06, 2020- $10bn of precious metals dumped each year in electronic waste, says UN
- Boohoo to investigate use of Leicester factory with 'unacceptable' conditions
- Green groups urge government to back heat pumps in recovery plans
- Furloughed Indonesian tourism workers hired to clean beaches
- Bangladeshi solar-sharing start-up aims to cut power waste
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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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June 30, 2020- US to join summit on global green recovery from Covid-19 crisis
- China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May
- Finance giants must urgently set biodiversity targets and aim for 'net-positive'
- Environmental experts criticise plan for 'New Deal' in UK
- A new study finds evidence of microplastics in the air
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June 29, 2020- Coca-Cola suspends social media advertising despite Facebook changes
- Business giants vow to build back better post-Covid-19
- World’s biggest renewables firms earn abysmal scores on human rights performance
- Coronavirus weakens defences against Indonesian forest fires as severe haze risk deemed 'moderate'
- Green Investment Group and Enso Energy team up on 1GW solar-plus-storage pipeline
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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 24, 2020- Amazon debuts $2bn Climate Pledge Fund to back 'visionary' green innovators
- New report sets our leadership priorities for board beyond the Covid-19 crisis
- Black women scientists missing from textbooks, study shows
- Post-Brexit trade policy must encourage 'race to the top' on environmental standards, business giants urge
- UK Government delivers £73.5m electric vehicle innovation boost
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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