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COMMENT: German sustainability scheme a "supersized" Accord
2015-06-17 14:03:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
While global trade programmes have stalled this month, the German-led Partnership for Sustainable Textiles has been making quiet headway on its promise to bring about "social, ecological and economic improvements all along the textile supply chain." Indeed, it has turned into a supersized version of the Accord, suggests Mike Flanagan.
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Honda discontinuing Civic Hybrid, Civic natural gas model, Accord plug-in hybrid; new BEV, PHEV models coming
2015-06-15 20:55:36| Green Car Congress
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Bangladesh Accord: Factory safety progressing slowly
2015-05-22 18:47:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Two years after the Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh was set up, the group says it could still take at least another 18 months before corrective action plans are completed for all factories.
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As Obama visits, Nike links trade accord to new hiring
2015-05-08 20:15:06| Footwear - Topix.net
President Obama plans to campaign for a Pacific free-trade zone on Friday by visiting the headquarters of Nike, where executives will announce that they will create 10,000 jobs in the United States if the accord is approved. Nike for years has been used as a case study by opponents of trade liberalization for its reliance on low-wage workers in Asia.
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WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
2015-04-10 05:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a...
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