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Greens pledge new environmental protection laws and independent watchdog
2016-06-06 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Greens want to create a tougher independent environmental watchdog and a new set of environment laws for Australia. They said the current system is failing because it is too easily exploited by powerful miners and developers. The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, said the Greens will push in the next parliament to establish an independent statutory national environment protection authority (NEPA), modelled on the EPA in the United States. He said the new NEPA would enforce Australias...
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Web giants pledge to tackle online hate
2016-05-31 14:28:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Microsoft, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pledge to remove hate speech within 24 hours, as they back an EU code of conduct.
Iran secures major South Korean textile investment pledge
2016-05-27 18:58:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
South Korean spandex-manufacturer TK Chemical Corp, an affiliate of the SM Group conglomerate, has confirmed to just-style that it will build a 10,000-tonne-a-year spandex plant with an initial investment of KRW80bn (US$69m) in Iran.
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Six international brands join forest-free viscose pledge
2016-05-24 17:24:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Six international brands and retailers including Tesco, Esprit, KappAhl and New Look have joined a commitment to stop sourcing the raw material for their viscose and rayon textiles from ancient and endangered forests.
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Norway awards new Arctic oil licences days after drilling pledge
2016-05-16 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The US and five Nordic states will take a precautionary approach to oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, they agreed on Friday. A joint statement emphasised their commitment to international climate goals, which analysts warn are incompatible with costly Arctic exploration. Following a similar commitment by Canada in April, it leaves Russia as the only Arctic nation not signed up to science-based standards. Governments agreed in Paris last December to hold global warming well below 2C....
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