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News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO CEO Beverley Postma resigns

...When she accepted the role at RSPO, she said that the job is “not without challenges”, but added that the approach of the RSPO—bringing together stakeholder groups with varied interests—is “the best w...

18 May 2021

RSPO CEO Beverley Postma resigns

News / Manufacturing

Tiny clothes fibres are washing into the oceans. What can garment makers do about the problem?

...ther. When I started out, there was a lot of focus on the social aspects of the fashion industry—child labour and the working hours of employees. Then environmental groups started pulling samples from...

28 Jan 2021

Tiny clothes fibres are washing into the oceans. What can garment makers do about the problem?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Firms can no longer shirk from reporting on the S in ESG

...their supply chains, ridding them of ESG breaches. The world’s biggest investors are increasingly scrutinising how the firms they fund perform in this aspect. The Norwegian Pension Fund, the second-la...

18 Mar 2022

Firms can no longer shirk from reporting on the S in ESG

migrant worker, who works in a textile loom India

News / Policy & Finance

Indian garment workers cover bosses' lockdown losses

...their own losses. But workers in the garment hubs of Bengaluru in southern Karnataka told their union leaders that they were given a couple of options when factories reopened. They could forgo half th...

26 Oct 2020

Indian garment workers cover bosses' lockdown losses

News / Cities

Eco-friendly Eid—the Indonesian women on a mission to plant trees

...the use of plastics during the Islamic fasting month. "It is explained in the Koran that it is important to do good in the month of Ramadan," Rahma Susanti, head of the LLHPB in West Kalimantan provin...

14 May 2021

Eco-friendly Eid—the Indonesian women on a mission to plant trees

Press Releases / DNV

DNV provides technical due diligence for leading Australian bus electrification project

...the JV on the project’s commercial operation and contracts, the grid connection process (including the need for it to be capable of meeting the complex requirements of the bus depot’s char...

2 Nov 2021

DNV provides technical due diligence for leading Australian bus electrification project

News / Policy & Finance

China’s plans for gigantic Brahmaputra dam strains relations with India further

...ther rivers and together they become the Brahmaputra. At that point, the Siang contributes about 30 per cent of the water of the Brahmaputra. Other large tributaries join the Brahmaputra along the Ass...

8 Dec 2020

China’s plans for gigantic Brahmaputra dam strains relations with India further

News / Waste

As world goes under plastic waste, UN to hammer out global treaty

...the food chain and even into the atmosphere where it may be influencing climate change. “Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere, from the remote shores of the Arctic to the deepest parts of the...

4 Feb 2022

As world goes under plastic waste, UN to hammer out global treaty

News / Policy & Finance

COP26 climate talks 'difficult' without promised finance, says UN fund head

...therwise they may jeopardise November's critical negotiations to limit global warming, said the head of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund. The call by Yannick Glemarec comes as about 50 climate ministe...

1 Oct 2021

COP26 climate talks 'difficult' without promised finance, says UN fund head

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