Results for Supply Chain
Daily Media Briefing
July 06, 2020- $10bn of precious metals dumped each year in electronic waste, says UN
- Boohoo to investigate use of Leicester factory with 'unacceptable' conditions
- Green groups urge government to back heat pumps in recovery plans
- Furloughed Indonesian tourism workers hired to clean beaches
- Bangladeshi solar-sharing start-up aims to cut power waste
Daily Media Briefing
June 26, 2020- Unilever to change name of Fair & Lovely skin lightening cream
- Environment groups urge Nippon Paper to scrap Victorian timber from supply chain
- Most oil majors' net-zero strategies are greenwash, with US firms faring the worst, according to report
- Reserve Bank warns of 25% GDP loss by 2100 unless action taken on climate change
- New report by the Committee on Climate Change for green transformation
Daily Media Briefing
June 25, 2020- Ben & Jerry's joins Facebook ad boycott against racist content
- Just 39% of businesses think they are taking enough action on SDGs, UN survey finds
- Tech giants partner with UN Women to provide life-saving information to survivors of domestic violence during COVID-19
- China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, study says
- New initiative to help corporates tackle air pollution as lockdown lifts
Daily Media Briefing
June 15, 2020- Unilever to invest €1 billion in climate change fund over 10 years
- World's largest ICT companies failing to tackle human rights abuses in supply chains
- Corporates step up calls for nature restoration policies
- Google's new rules clamp down on discriminatory housing and job ads
- Remote working means UK businesses will underreport 470,000 tonnes of carbon in 2020
Daily Media Briefing
June 10, 2020- MP plans law to force employers to reveal Ethnicity Pay Gap
- Russian mining firm accused of using global heating to avoid blame for oil spill
- Twitter to make Juneteenth a company holiday
- Google partners with WWF on platform for fashion brands to track sustainable raw materials
- Britain goes 60 days without coal-fired power generation
Daily Media Briefing
May 21, 2020- CDP: 24 per cent jump in corporates calling on suppliers to beef up green effort
- Female Fortune 500 CEOs reach an all-time high, but it's still a small percentage
- Study: Plastic recycling labelling ‘confusing and inconsistent’
- Hundreds of charities in UK added to waiting list for food redistribution
- Coronavirus fallout to slow global growth in renewable energy
Daily Media Briefing
May 20, 2020- Lockdowns trigger dramatic fall in global carbon emissions
- Business giants failing to disclose climate-related risks
- #PridePledge Asks Corporations to Pivot Funds They Aren’t Using on Pride Festivals This Year
- JPMorgan's CEO joins other billionaires sounding the alarm on inequality in the US
- British supermarkets threaten Brazil boycott over proposed forest law
Daily Media Briefing
May 13, 2020- Goldman Sachs says the only other commodity ‘looking as precarious as oil’ is livestock
- Twitter allows staff to work from home 'forever'
- Rockefeller fund returns shine after ditching fossil fuels
- Deutsche Bank targets 200 billion euros of sustainable investment by 2025
- Majority of British public support weekly car-free days in towns and cities
Daily Media Briefing
May 07, 2020- Splits emerge over investor response to Total's net zero pledge
- Amazon executive “quit in dismay” at sacking of climate activists
- New study finds pollution causing birth defects in children of DRC cobalt miners
- Unilever calls on government and corporates to end 'business as usual'
- World cannot return to 'business as usual' after Covid-19, say mayors
Daily Media Briefing
April 30, 2020- Coronavirus: NGOs call on insurers to respond to coronavirus pandemic through net-zero transition packages
- Coronavirus: Air France coronavirus bailout package to demand steep emissions cuts
- Indonesia eyes sustainability certification for oil palm smallholders
- HSBC closes door on new coal projects
- Flexible working will be norm after lockdown, say Barclays and WPP bosses