Results for Waste
Daily Media Briefing
May 08, 2018- Amazon pauses Seattle expansion in response to proposed tax that would help the homeless
- Walmart takes on Amazon in India with Flipkart deal
- Sainsbury’s drops project to halve food waste
- Report: Textile certification schemes slammed for false promises
- Tourism responsible for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions
Daily Media Briefing
May 03, 2018- Commonwealth Bank admits to losing records for 20 million accounts
- Cambridge Analytica to close following Facebook data controversy
- Barclays unveils new ‘green trade loans’ for businesses
- Hawaii approves ban on sunscreens believed to kill coral reefs
- Wimbledon announces ban on plastic straws for 2018
Daily Media Briefing
May 01, 2018- Report: All countries in the Paris Agreement now have policies to fight climate change
- Unions at Disneyland, California push for vote on living wage
- Tetra Pak to develop paper straws for drinks cartons
- Australia pledges largest single investment to save Great Barrier Reef
- Venezuela stops paying $1 billion debt to Canadian gold miner
Daily Media Briefing
April 30, 2018- Sainsbury’s confirms plans to merge with Asda and cut prices
- US insurers not doing enough on sustainability, new report shows
- Shell joins REDD+ Business Initiative in move to step up deforestation efforts
- Veolia launches online organic waste marketplace
- EU votes to ban bee-harming pesticides
Daily Media Briefing
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
Daily Media Briefing
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
Daily Media Briefing
April 19, 2018- IMF sounds alarm on excessive global borrowing
- Walmart to double charging network for electric vehicles
- P&G to buy German Merck’s consumer health unit for €3.4 billion
- Costa Coffee to recycle equivalent of all its takeaway cups each year
- EU circular economy plans clear major hurdle after MEP approval
Daily Media Briefing
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
Daily Media Briefing
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
Daily Media Briefing
April 12, 2018- New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of “carbon-neutral future”
- Nestle pledges to make all packaging recyclable by 2025 but faces criticism from Greenpeace
- Responsible Mining Index released, industry must improve approach to human rights and environmental protection
- IKEA Singapore gives Malaysian staff extra day of leave to vote in elections
- Argentina accused of caving to Trump by dropping carbon price from G20 talks