Results for Policy & Research
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September 10, 2020- Ex-VW CEO to face diesel fraud trial, court says
- L’Oréal launches make-up recycling across UK shops
- Australian business leaders respond to corporate scandals, #MeToo movement
- Tax frequent flyers, ban new gas boilers and demand carbon labelling, UK Climate Assembly tells politicians
- Covid-19 will weaken energy demand for decades—but world still losing climate fight, warns report
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September 09, 2020- Seafood stakeholders push for stricter sustainability measures in landmark Fisheries Bill
- UK could save £1.6bn and 17,000 deaths by improving air quality, report finds
- More than 1 billion people could face displacement by 2050, according to new report
- Ex-G4S executives charged with defrauding UK government
- Poland to accelerate coal phase-out, spend billions on renewable and nuclear energy
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September 08, 2020- Global regulatory body to harmonise ‘plethora’ of ESG standards
- US$154 billion in capital has gone to 300 forest-risk companies since the Paris Agreement
- Coronavirus fuels modern slavery threat for Asian garment workers
- Nestlé on track to meet sustainable packaging goal
- Criticism over BP bid to help Aberdeen City Council cut emissions
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September 02, 2020- Removing CO2 could spark big rise in food prices
- Unilever pledges to invest €1bn in eliminating fossil fuels from cleaning products by 2030
- Activists turn on Oatly vegan milk after stake sold to Trump-linked Blackstone
- UK seeks to ban supermarkets selling goods from deforestation
- Microplastic pollution devastating soil species, study finds
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September 01, 2020- Businesses urged to harness 'nature-based solutions' to combat climate emergency
- Auditors raised minimum-wage red flags at Boohoo factories
- Climate change and agriculture driving record levels of deforestation, WWF report finds
- Humans' construction 'footprint' on ocean quantified for first time
- Defra announces plan to double 5p plastic bag charge and extend levy to all retailers from next year
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August 24, 2020- Dixons Carphone becomes first tech retailer to join EV100
- 'Melting faster and faster': Greenland lost 1 million tonnes of ice for each minute of 2019
- Australian insurer Suncorp to ditch coverage for oil and gas projects
- Rio Tinto bosses lose bonuses over Aboriginal cave destruction
- Samsung faces youth climate protests over involvement in new Vietnam coal plant
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August 20, 2020- BHP to exit thermal coal mining within two years
- Government seeks legally-binding environmental targets from 2022
- Most Europeans view climate change as more pressing issue than pandemic, according to poll
- Drilling lobby pours millions into Facebook and TV ads claiming natural gas is ‘climate friendly’
- Purdue Pharma escaped serious charges over opioid in 2006, memo shows
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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
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August 12, 2020- Sustainable investment funds just surpassed $1 trillion for the first time on record
- New rules may force online political adverts in UK to carry labels
- Apple imported clothes from Xinjiang firm facing US forced labour sanctions
- New platform to help corporates forge circular economy partnerships
- Brand leaders have a duty to pay a premium for sustainability to improve industry, says L'Oréal supply chain chief
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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