Results for Environment
Daily Briefing
August 19, 2020- Ten times more plastic dumped in Atlantic than previously believed
- Retail giants prepare to launch TerraCycle's 'zero-waste' refill service in stores
- COP26: UK seeks corporate sponsors with 'strong climate credentials'
- Unilever touts supply chain mapping pilot in fresh bid to tackle deforestation
- Charity sector loses 25,000 jobs during pandemic - and 35,000 more likely to go
Daily Briefing
August 18, 2020- PwC and Schroders will allow staff to work from home after Covid crisis
- Amazon investigated by German watchdog for abusing dominance during pandemic
- Oil and gas giants take $87bn hit on assets in nine months
- Europe recorded record solar output amid Covid-19 lockdowns
- National Lottery funnels £14m into community-led climate action projects
Daily Briefing
August 17, 2020- Selfridges unveils vision to 'reinvent retail' as it commits to new sourcing standards
- Makers of M&S sandwiches faced pay dock if they self-isolated, says union
- Just Eat to stop using gig economy workers
- Tree planting can help tropical forests ‘recover 50% faster’ from logging
- National Grid kick-starts UK's first trials of grid-injected biomethane from cow manure
Daily Briefing
August 14, 2020- Wind and solar produce record 10% of world’s electricity, but scientists warn faster change is needed
- BHP to steer mining lobby groups' climate change policies
- Flora owner to introduce carbon labelling across its products
- China's billion-dollar pig plan met with loathing by Argentinians
- Cartier faces scepticism over China ring ads featuring same-sex couples
Daily Briefing
August 11, 2020- Garment workers seen losing up to $5.8 bln in wages during coronavirus
- Oil spill threatens ecological disaster as Mauritius declares emergency
- Big U.S. companies form group to boost hiring of minorities in New York
- HelloFresh to offset entire carbon footprint
- Diageo toasts halving of greenhouse gas emissions
Daily Briefing
August 10, 2020- U.N. hails 'historic' milestone in global drive to end child labour
- EU, Switzerland to link emissions trading platforms from September
- An opportunity to bring about a better future': Top economists call for the end of the carbon economy
- After ditching Boohoo, ASOS sets new sustainability and ethics requirements for brands
- Green groups in Singapore call for fairer treatment of migrant workers
Daily Briefing
August 07, 2020- Rio Tinto chief faces calls to resign after Aboriginal site demolition
- Government vows to make all new homes 'zero carbon ready', but campaigners fear disaster for nature
- Facebook purges ads for illegal wildlife in Southeast Asia as online trade surges
- ITV commits to 46% reduction in emissions through 1.5C science-based targets
- Economic meltdown threatens Europe's war on plastic
Daily Briefing
August 06, 2020- Facebook and Twitter punish Trump over video where he says children ‘almost immune’ to Covid-19
- Microsoft vows to become a 'zero-waste' business by 2030
- Almost half of UK charities for world's poorest set to close in a year
- Japan's climate change efforts hindered by biased business lobby, research shows
- Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare programme finds
Daily Media Briefing
August 04, 2020- Google owner issues largest corporate sustainability bond in history
- Vodafone and Defra launch IoT tree monitoring system to inform climate policy
- Bangladesh may ditch 90% of its planned coal power
- Migrant workers on farms across Canada are being told they can’t leave, raising human rights concerns
- KLM's biofuel advertisements were greenwashing, regulator rules
Daily Media Briefing
August 03, 2020- Credit Suisse earmarks more than $300 billion for sustainable finance
- Patagonia ups regenerative agriculture efforts
- Adverts for large polluting cars 'should be banned'
- Bank of America to disclose climate impact of its lending and investments
- Barely a quarter of charities' coronavirus fund for England allocated