Results for Environment
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June 05, 2014- World Cities Summit: Singapore welcomes 20,000 delegates to talk sustainability
- Finland to crack down on tax evasion, corruption and abuse
- After bribery scandal, high-level departures at Walmart
- Conservationists split over 'biodiversity offsetting' plans
- Singapore: Five construction companies charged for breaching employment laws
Power to the people: Crowdfunding and community resolve could provide a clean energy turbo boost
June 05, 2014 Ramsay Dunning, General Manager of Co-operative Energy, argues that new sources of funding could herald a clean energy revolution. Read more >
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June 04, 2014- Majority of Fortune 100 companies have policies on human trafficking and forced labour
- BT calls up wind farm savings with £440m investment
- UK to boost fracking, scrap zero-carbon homes
- London Stock Exchange joins UN sustainability initiative
- A chic idea for China’s green-minded set
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June 03, 2014- Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Samsung, Tata, Unilever and Nestlé top list of world’s most responsible companies
- ‘Business for peace’ initiatives gaining traction
- China plans absolute CO2 cap for first time
- Mondelez International Foundation to bring better health to more than one million children in five countries
- Google to spend more than $1bn on satellite internet, reports indicate
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May 30, 2014- Obama to unveil historic climate change plan to cut US carbon pollution
- World will ‘lose capacity to feed itself’ with corporate-controlled farms, says study
- Comic Relief tables new ethical investment strategy after exposé
- Indonesian finance sector takes steps to become green
- Cisco and Kansas City team up to launch smart city network
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May 29, 2014- Chocolate firms sign up to support 300,000 cocoa farmers through CocoaAction
- Cadbury Malaysia in pork DNA investigation
- Americans care deeply about 'global warming' – but not 'climate change'
- EU agrees biofuels compromise in an attempt to restore policy certainty
- Top scientists warn WHO not to stub out e-cigarettes
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May 28, 2014- “Wasteful” fossil fuel subsidies fuelling climate change, says IEA
- Trade unions launch global climate action campaign
- Capitalism needs to change and reduce its ‘financial footprint’, says IMF chief
- California approves self-driving cars as Google unveils latest prototype
- China to remove five million vehicles in latest anti-smog drive
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May 27, 2014- Fairtrade accused of failing to deliver benefits to African farmworkers
- IBM to provide improved access to life-saving drugs in Zambia
- UN climate fund sets November goal for first cash pledges
- UK-China deal opens up £200 million green building opportunity
- Wind now cheapest form of power generation, says EDP
- India hits US, China with solar imports anti-dumping duties
Daily Media Briefing
May 22, 2014- Dell advances green packaging, closed-loop recycling
- Tesco to remove checkout sweets in 'healthy choice' move
- Asian Agri to stop sourcing from illegal plantations
- Homeworking holds key to carbon reduction for businesses, report finds
- 300 firms leaving Beijing to reduce smog in capital
Daily Media Briefing
May 20, 2014- Forced labour 'making $150 billion profit'
- Food groups under fire from Oxfam over carbon emissions
- World Cup 2014: Greenpeace investigation reveals sportswear 'toxic scandal'
- SEC and Thaipat Institute launch CSR indicators for Thai companies
- Credit Suisse pleads guilty in felony case
- UK Banking standards oversight body to be set up