Results for Waste
Daily Media Briefing
July 28, 2015- American firms pledge USD$140 billion to support Obama's climate action plan
- Facebook and other tech giants expand Internet access to millions in Africa
- Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons
- Recycling project targets industrial waste around Beijing
- FDA wants more detail about sugar on food labels
Daily Media Briefing
July 27, 2015- Pollution from copper mining in Northern Laos destroying local livelihoods
- GSK not-for-profit malaria vaccine given green light
- Argos launches waste-tackling gadget trade-in service
- Aviva commits £2.5 billion to green investments following climate risk report
- Internet companies face 'tax crackdown'
Daily Media Briefing
July 24, 2015- California tech industry searches for ways to cut water use
- P&G to make 230 million bottles a year out of recycled plastic
- UK authorities 'lack resources' to investigate Trafigura over toxic waste
- Survey: Many mothers 'feel discriminated against at work'
- Myanmar sentences 153 Chinese nationals to life for illegal logging
Daily Media Briefing
July 22, 2015- Small scale solar energy subsidies set to end in UK
- World Bank holds first methane emissions auction
- Construction firms receive '3 trees' for sustainable timber progress
- Recession cut US emissions, rather than falling coal use
- 'Social supermarket' unites with surplus charity to tackle food poverty
Daily Media Briefing
July 13, 2015- $50 million IFC funding to improve safety in Bangladesh factories
- UK government scraps zero carbon homes target
- Selfridges stops selling plastic water bottles to save oceans
- Mobile app designed to help save lives with one tap
- Biofuel from station coffee waste
Daily Media Briefing
June 26, 2015- Top consumer brands pledge to halve food waste by 2025
- Bill Gates to double investment in renewable energy projects
- S&P Dow Jones launches new indices for sustainable investors
- France cracks down on Uber service after protests
- Lancashire county council rejects Cuadrilla fracking bid
Daily Media Briefing
June 22, 2015- Report: Aid donors’ flagship investment deal causing hardship and displacement for Tanzanian farmers
- Palm oil giants to investigate company found razing Papuan rainforest
- Clean energy 'creates more jobs than fossil fuels', report claims
- Singapore to produce electricity from water sludge, food waste
- OECD: Large banking sectors fuel inequality and slow growth
Daily Media Briefing
June 04, 2015- Former Shell chairman advocates fossil fuel divestment
- Microsoft turns to gamification to tackle water crisis
- Coca-Cola unveils world's first entirely plant-based PET bottle
- Tesco expands charity food scheme
- Chevron pays record fine in Pennsylvania blast
Can the circular economy work in the developing world?
June 04, 2015 The circular economy is usually discussed in terms of adapting existing linear models in the developing world. Yet the opportunities offered by circular models may be far greater for developing countries, writes Arpita Raksit. Read more >
Daily Media Briefing
June 03, 2015- Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy
- Sepp Blatter to resign as Fifa president amid corruption scandal
- Three quarters of business leaders reckon climate impacts threaten bottom line
- Tax dodging by big firms ‘robs poor countries of billions of dollars a year’
- Construction completed for UK’s first food waste AD plant