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Sourcing: More action needed to trace raw materials
2014-02-28 19:15:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
It's one thing for apparel brands and retailers to talk about sustainability and traceability across their supply chains, but another altogether to put it into practice. Indeed, new research reveals that despite the well-documented risk of sourcing forced-labour Uzbek cotton, many firms are still not taking enough steps to prevent its use in their products.
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Worlds action needed now before we sink to the bottom of the ocean.'
2013-12-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Islands Business: Climate change and tourism challenges and opportunities took center stage at yesterdays opening of a three-day summit that brought Micronesian presidents and governors to Saipan. The 19th Micronesian Chief Executives Summit also hope that Guam Governor Eddie B. Calvos recent appointment to the presidential task force on climate preparedness and resilience would bring to the fore the tiny islands huge challenges. One by one, presidents and governors shared their concerns about climate change...
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'Action needed' on homes and savings
2013-11-18 12:48:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The chancellor should raise the tax-free savings allowance and explain how a scheme to help house buyers should end, a bankers' trade body has said.
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IPCC report: Effective policy action needed to arrest climate change
2013-10-07 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The latest report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has marshalled a mass of data, trends and analyses that unequivocally suggest warming of the climate system, albeit in the teeny decimal points of 0.85° C when globally averaged for the period 1880 to 2012. Now, in complex systems, small changes can add up to large effects. The Fifth Assessment Report does take note of extreme weather and climate events and global-scale changes in precipitation patterns witnessed in recent years,...
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CANADA: Urgent action needed on Bangladesh, Loblaw told
2013-05-02 16:43:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Immediate steps must be taken to ensure there is no repeat of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, unions and NGOs have told supermarket chain Loblaw.
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