Results for Policy & Research
The living wage: why you can’t afford to ignore it
June 04, 2014 Mitun Majumdar says that the living wage is becoming an important benchmark that global companies must confront. Read more >
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June 02, 2014- World No Tobacco Day marked with call for higher taxes
- Danone extends sustainable palm oil pledge
- China's growing hunger for dairy raises fears over sustainable production
- JPMorgan Chase commits $30 million to improving financial capability
- FIFA faces call to run World Cup vote again
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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 23, 2014- Intel submits first SEC conflict minerals report
- Clothing retailers challenge Cambodian factory conditions
- EU moves to scrap 'best before' labels in bid to cut food waste
- Corrupt British companies face fines of 400 percent of illicit profits
- Toyota develops chips for hybrid cars to boost fuel efficiency
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May 21, 2014- Ukraine crisis: how supply chains have become a global battleground
- Green groups issue warning over EU biomass plans
- China's ban on overseas auditors raises concern over transparency
- Bitter pill for Pfizer as US proposes laws to block tax switches
- New survey shows companies becoming more sensitive to sustainable investment concerns
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May 19, 2014- Greenpeace: Brazil laundering illegal timber on a 'massive and growing scale'
- ‘Keep dirty energy out of Green Climate Fund’, demand activists
- Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners
- Coca-Cola and McDonald's sign up to UK litter prevention pledge
- Apple and Google's Motorola announce patent truce, agree to work on reform
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May 14, 2014- 'Sustainable' companies using secretive tax havens, says Christian Aid
- Shock EU Google ruling raises data privacy issues
- Closed-loop upcycling: Starbucks now sourcing milk from coffee-fed cows
- US tobacco child labour: Children working on farms 'endangered' by exposure to nicotine
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May 09, 2014- Vermont takes on genetically modified foods with new labelling law
- Carmakers put the brakes on Europe’s tough pollution tests
- Sustainable investment market booming in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Adidas supplier upcycles food packaging into new trainer parts
- Insurers should consider climate risks, says Lloyd’s of London
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May 08, 2014- UK businesses face more shareholder revolts
- Religious leaders should divest from fossil fuels, says UN climate chief
- Google, Facebook and Amazon write to Federal Communications Commission demanding true net neutrality
- WWF: European companies failing on soy sourcing sustainability
- ‘Groundbreaking’ principles for leadership in purchasing unveiled