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Italian Pig Farmers Urge Institutions to 'Adopt' Pigs to Protect Ham
2013-12-06 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ITALY - Italian pig farmers from all regions gathered before Parliament on Thursday (5 December), calling for institutions to "adopt" pigs in an attempt to protect Italian prosciutto, which, in the last five years, has been imitated in foreign countries.
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Green investors urge companies to clean up palm oil industry
2013-12-05 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A coalition of investors and asset managers is urging stakeholders in the palm oil industry to adopt policies that exclude deforestation and human rights violations from their supply chains. The call, coordinated by Green Century Capital Management, was issued in the form of letters sent to 40 major palm oil producers, financiers and buyers. "Fueling deforestation is bad business for any company seeking to position itself as a responsible, sophisticated global player," said Lucia von Reusner...
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ITALY: Officials urge funding for factory safety checks
2013-12-03 15:39:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Local authorities in the Tuscan city of Prato have called on the Italian government to help finance more safety checks on local Chinese-run clothing and textile factories following the deadly factory fire that killed seven Chinese workers.
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AUDIO: Stay with Co-op, campaigners urge
2013-11-22 17:19:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The campaign group Save Our Bank is calling for the Co-op Bank to retain its ethical values, and for customers not to leave.
Green groups urge rich states to stop blocking climate loss mechanism
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A group of 120 environment and development groups delivered an open letter to ministers at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday, urging the establishment of an international mechanism on climate-induced loss and damage in Warsaw, as some rich nations continued to block the step. A lack of international ambition to cut greenhouse gas emissions and low levels of climate finance mean that vulnerable communities, ecosystems and countries "face increasing loss and damage due to climate change impacts on an...
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