Sustainability and Justice in the High Seas
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
The widely reported protests against the Jaitapur nuclear power plant seem to have created an international ripple with Germany's second largest bank, Commerzbank, deciding to pull out of this venture. Commerzbank, in an email sent to the NGO Greenpeace has cited reasons of "sustainability and reputational risk" for no longer wanting to be part of a project which is being set up with French col
Is the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society more important for environment minister Jairam Ramesh than the endangered Olive Ridley turtles, a species that enjoys the same legal protection as the tiger?
A bold move by eight Pacific island nations to preserve the world's last large stocks of tuna is expected to face strong resistance at a meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) near Honolulu, Hawaii.
Approval Deferred Due To Insufficient Impact Details Of Its Captive Port At Jatadhari IN A move that could further delay South Korean steel giant Posco
Environmental activist group Greenpeace sued Dow Chemical on Monday, accusing the largest U.S.
<p>Over the course of 2010 we've seen international climate negotiations stalling. But at the same time we!ve seen many encouraging developments on climate action on a national level. More and more countries are recognising climate change as a real threat. A recent poll, for example, revealed that two thirds of Chinese people see climate change as one of the biggest global challenges.
The attempt by some non-governmental organisations and activists to impose a straitjacket on CSR, reflecting their priorities, is misguided and must be rejected, says Jagdish Bhagwati INCREASINGLY, corporations are under pressure, often from activist non-governmental organisations, to take on specific corporate social responsibility (CSR) obligations.
While Wipro and HCL have topped in the just released Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics for launching green products, Toshiba and Microsoft lag for failure to keep their promise. The gap between companies that are making progress in weeding our toxic chemicals, improving energy efficiency and enabling consumers to recycle their products and the rest has also increased.
Ontario Syncrude, the largest operator of oil sands projects in Canada, was ordered to pay $2.92 million on October 22 for causing the deaths of 1,603 ducks. The company was convicted in June by an Alberta court for failing to deploy scarecrows and loud cannons in April 2008 to prevent the migratory birds from landing on a tailings pond containing oily residue from one of its operations. The
Into dust Residents of Kriusha village, in the western Russian region of Ryazan, search through the remains of their charred homes Five weeks after wildfires began spreading through forests in central and western parts of the country, Russia is still burning.