Results for Governance
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May 24, 2018- Concerns raised over healthiness of major food & beverage companies’ products
- Asset managers agree on 8 questions to put to companies
- Brexit, Trump wouldn't have happened without Facebook
- New York Stock Exchange appoints first female leader
- Congress approves first big Dodd-Frank rollback
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May 16, 2018- Kellogg latest company to pull out of Venezuela
- Carillion bosses drove construction firm off a cliff, say MPs
- Amazon to open checkout-free stores in Chicago and San Francisco
- Report: WWF argues the UK does not need to turn to gas
- Report: 24 million jobs to open up by 2030 to support greener economy
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May 15, 2018- Human rights activists name and shame giant companies
- Amazon adopts new policy to promote board diversity
- World Health Organisation pushes for ban on trans fats
- Lloyds Bank announces further £2 billion funding for sustainable investment
- Fears for post-Brexit climate laws as UK green watchdog plans revealed
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April 26, 2018- Artificial intelligence research in the UK to be boosted by £300 million of public money
- Citigroup & Bank of America criticised by US senator for their firearms bans
- UK supermarkets launch voluntary pledge to cut plastic packaging
- Seven member states push for EU to raise climate targets
- Telstra ordered to pay AU$10 million after misleading billing charges
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April 25, 2018- Whitbread to spin off Costa Coffee within two years
- US environment agency proposes limits to science used in rulemaking
- SEC imposes $35 million fine over Yahoo data breach
- Legal and General plan to rescind investments based on companies’ climate change record
- UK runs without coal power for three days in a row
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April 24, 2018- FIFA launches new carbon offset campaign for 2018 World Cup
- Singapore’s first zero-waste grocery store to open
- KPMG faces rare shareholder protest over General Electric and Wells Fargo audits
- YouTube reveals it removed 8.3 million videos from site over 3-month period
- Fortune 500 companies join AFF, GreenBlue on Forest Sustainability Tool
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April 20, 2018- Standard Chartered pulls out of funding 1,200-megawatt Vietnam coal plant over climate policy conflict
- Wells Fargo said to be target of $1 billion US fine
- Facebook moves 1.5 billion users out of reach of new European privacy law
- British firms boost spending on businesses doing good
- SP Group to launch platform for home owners to sell solar energy certificates
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April 17, 2018- UK government promises £61 million to tackle ocean plastic pollution with Commonwealth nations
- Investors, with $1 trillion, put weight behind call for big brands to step up climate targets
- Santander chair calls EU rules on payments unfair
- New Green-e Renewable Energy Standard for Chile launches pilot with Viña Concha y Toro
- Former Wells Fargo trader sues bank, claims wrongful termination due to plan to complain to regulators
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April 16, 2018- Carbon dioxide from ships at sea to be regulated for first time
- Corporate America poised to unveil record buybacks
- Danone North America and Canada become B Corp certified
- Co-op hits emissions target three years early
- Shell asks Indonesia to reconsider new fuel pricing policy
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April 13, 2018- Pret a Manger launches the UK’s plastic bottle deposit return scheme
- Report: World can limit global warming “without bioenergy with carbon capture and storage”
- US green group to launch methane detection satellite
- Indonesian billionaire using “shadow companies” to clear forest for palm oil, report alleges
- Singapore’s competition watchdog sets interim measures for Grab-Uber merger