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Digital technology, green finance in vogue among fashion’s sustainability trendsetters

GreenBiz

For example, blockchain platform Provenance helps trace and certify supply chains to enable ethical procurement decisions. Just last year, The Carlyle Group made its first foray into the industry by acquiring a stake in Jeanologia, and Permira acquired a majority stake in the ethical fashion brand Reformation.

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Re-cooperativising the Co-op Bank? Shaun Fensom of Save Our Bank

Low Impact

Most people know us as ‘Save our Bank’ but there’s a formal organisation called the Customer Union for Ethical Banking – itself a co-op. To make sure the bank keeps to its ethical principles, which are very strong, and the Co-op Bank has held them longer than any other bank. It all went rather pear-shaped in 2013.

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Geopolitical uncertainty, trade restrictions and divergence on AI ‘biggest risks’ to growth for global companies

Envirotec Magazine

AI Governance Gaps: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force across industries, with investment in AI increasing more than fivefold between 2013 and 2023. Ethical and responsible AI deployment is crucial to maintain trust among stakeholders.

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Comic Relief gets serious about tackling the climate emergency

Business Green

Comic Relief faced a storm of criticism in 2013 when it emerged it was investing in arms and tobacco companies. Since then it has prioritised ethical investment, stating in last year's report that the organisation recognises "the importance of investing responsibly and sustainably".

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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: Incorporating Sustainability Into The Built Environment

Green Business Bureau

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 26(5), 999–1014. The anatomy of human destructiveness. Greenwich, CT. [2] 2] Wilson, E. Harvard University Press. [3] 3] Clowney, D. Biophilia as an Environmental Virtue. 4] Calabrese, E. F., & Dommert, A. Biophilia and the practice of Biophilic Design.

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COP26 Hires Law Firm That Defended Fossil Fuel Giants Over Environmental Disasters

DeSmogBlog

In 2013, DLA Piper defended ExxonMobil over an alleged 2006 gas leak in Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1989 it defended Occidental Chemicals Corporation over the historic burying of toxic waste in Love Canal, Niagara Falls — considered one of the biggest corporate environmental disasters in history. billion ($2.16 billion ($1.65 billion ($2.4

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: What’s the Difference?

Green Business Bureau

Both corporate sustainability and CSR help companies run in a way that allows them to be ethically profitable, but never at the expense of others. His book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman advocates the ethics and responsiveness of business to societal stakeholders. There are subtle differences between the two concepts.