Results for Technology & Innovation

Daily Media Briefing
March 12, 2014- Body Shop removes all products from Chinese duty free stores
- Climate Chief warns battle to curb warming is becoming harder
- Biomass to power thousands of Cornish homes
- Audi’s traffic light technology has potential to cut CO2 emissions
- New partnership to brighten cities and improve mobile broadband connectivity

Daily Media Briefing
March 07, 2014- Global companies ranked on palm oil commitments
- China-US climate cooperation raises hopes for global deal according to UN
- Climate change could mean more malaria in Africa
- Sweden suspends aid to Uganda over anti-gay law
- UK and China seal £20 million clean tech deal

Daily Media Briefing
February 21, 2014- Denmark commits to setting carbon targets every five years
- European Commission launches legal action against Britain over deadly air pollution
- Olympic sponsors’ social media “buzz” dominated by gay rights issues
- Google’s mapping power harnessed to combat global deforestation
- Older workers feel bias from employers

Daily Media Briefing
February 12, 2014- Jewellers and retailers commit to ‘No dirty gold’ campaign
- Plans to protect World Cup workers unveiled
- Tata urged to give tea plantation workers way out of share scheme
- Buenos Aires honoured for sustainable transport improvements
- Chinese vanishing ink could see need for mountains of paper disappear

Daily Media Briefing
February 05, 2014- IKEA more than doubles use of sustainable cotton in products
- Fair Trade Schools to launch in US
- Call for UK bank staff to sign up for code of conduct
- Palau bans commercial fishing in favour of tourism and conservation
- Smartphone game aims to aid cancer cure

Daily Media Briefing
January 23, 2014- Rexam and Carlsberg team up in new sustainability initiative
- Unilever joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation as a Global Partner
- Japan ponders quotas for women in politics
- Pensions opt out should be scrapped
- UK government confirms that lottery consultation will go ahead

Daily Media Briefing
January 17, 2014- Water security now ranks as one of the greatest risks to civilisation
- Proportion of women on FTSE 100 boards tops 20 percent
- Britain tops table of worst climate change offenders
- BP study predicts greenhouse emissions will rise almost a third by 2020
- Google unveils smart contact lens

Daily Media Briefing 17th December
December 17, 2013 Transparency International releases 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index; GSK to stop paying doctors to promote drugs; £1.3bn invested in UK clean energy infrastructure in 2013; First female head of Lloyd’s of London pledges diversity drive; Plastic bottle waste used to help fight MRSA Read more >
Daily Media Briefing 11th December
December 11, 2013 Fossil fuel companies under fire as Shanghai pollution soars; Call for companies to offer higher pay before calling on immigrants; General Motors chooses first female CEO of any global automaker; Cost savings fear if greenhouse gas targets are scaled back; Leonardo DiCaprio forms racing team to speed up sales of electric cars Read more >