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Ethical Insight Issue 94 | 17 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008

A fortnightly review of corporate responsibility news and analysis

  Climate change and environment

Australia 17/07/2008
Govt. proposes trading scheme for energy, transport, waste and fugitive emissions
US 23/07/2008
US/Canada Western Climate Initiative prepares emissions trading system for 2010
Canada 28/07/2008
Greenpeace activists break into Syncrude site in oil sands expansion protest
Global 30/07/2008
Natural hazards update - US, Ukraine, Romania, Japan, South Korea, Guatemala...
Map of issue 94 articles in the Climate change and environment category

  Corporate governance

US 17/07/2008
SIRAN: 86 of S&P 100 companies report on sustainability, up from 58 in 2005
Mongolia 17/07/2008
World Bank provides US$9.3m to fund reforms to mining regulation and taxation
Germany 29/07/2008
Siemens sues 11 former executives over bribery scandal that has cost firm €1.6bn
Map of issue 94 articles in the Corporate governance category

  Conflict and political risk

Sudan 28/07/2008
Darfur Consortium: UNAMID not providing adequate protection to Darfur civilians
Nigeria 29/07/2008
MEND claims Shell oil pipeline attacks as output drops below half of OPEC quota
Map of issue 94 articles in the Conflict and political risk category

  SRI and finance

US 17/07/2008
Renaissance launches Green IPO index of alternative/clean energy companies
Bahrain 22/07/2008
AAOIFI to develop CSR standard for adoption by Islamic finance institutions
UAE 22/07/2008
GE joins Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund in zero-carbon Masdar City investment
UK 24/07/2008
CDP issues guidelines to improve carbon management information disclosure
Map of issue 94 articles in the SRI and finance category

  Labour and human rights

Myanmar 24/07/2008
WPF relief flights approach end as UN urges government to deliver political reform
India 25/07/2008
Vedanta to pay 5% of annual profits in compensation for impacts of bauxite mine
UK 29/07/2008
AI: Beijing has failed to meet human rights commitments made ahead of Olympics
Rwanda 29/07/2008
Employees complain of poor working conditions at RWACOM plastics factory
Map of issue 94 articles in the Labour and human rights category

  Development

Indonesia 29/07/2008
Grameen/Bakrie/Qualcomm extend wireless Village Phone Programme to Indonesia
Myanmar 29/07/2008
UN: distortions in Burmese official exchange rate cut 25% from value of aid
Map of issue 94 articles in the Development category

  Science, technology and health

US 17/07/2008
Clinton Foundation and Chinese/Indian bring down prices for ACT malaria drugs
Kenya 18/07/2008
NGOs file lawsuit against government over 20,000-hectare sugarcane biofuel project
France 18/07/2008
Officials say un-enriched uranium spills present minimal risk to human health
Lesotho 23/07/2008
NGO: companies/govt. should do more to tackle TB among migrant mining workers
Map of issue 94 articles in the Science, technology and health category

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