Lufthansa will launch the world’s first scheduled commercial passenger flights using bio-fuel in the first half of 2011. An A321 using IAE engines will fly between Hamburg and Frankfurt using a 50-50 bio-fuel/conventional fuel blend. The daily flights will begin…
Several of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies said they plan to tighten screening of physicians who promote their drugs after ProPublica reported last month that more than 250 of them had been sanctioned for misconduct. Eli Lilly and Co. said…
Telefonica is launching Nokia's green handsets, announced earlier this year, and now adapted exclusively for Spanish operator, Movistar, reports Ian Scales. The phones offer a range of 'sustainable' tweaks -Â ecological applications, less packaging, a high-efficiency phone charger and a…
Une association représentant des citoyens congolais a déposé aujourd’hui auprès d’un tribunal de Montréal une requàªte pour autorisation d’exercer un recours collectif contre la compagnie canadienne Anvil Mining Limited. Il est allégué que cette compagnie, en fournissant une assistance logistique,…
Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) (JSE, NYSE, NASDAQ Dubai: GFI) today held its AGM and a subsequent general meeting to vote on the black economic empowerment transactions, detailed in a statement on 5 August 2010. All the resolutions listed in…
New technology for extracting water from potatoes is being trialled by food giants PepsiCo, which owns the crisp manufacturer Walkers. They are perfecting a process to capture water released from the potatoes as they are cooked into crisps before using…
L’Association Africaine de défense des Droits de l’Homme, ASADHO en sigle, dénonce le l’accord conclu par le Gouvernement congolais avec les multinationales Freeport et Lundin Holding dans le cadre de la Joint -Venture Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM). En effet, depuis…
Pensioenfonds PNO Media, the €3bn industry-wide pension fund for the Dutch media sector, has excluded US supermarket giant Wal-Mart from its investment universe because of labour law violations. “After careful consideration we have decided to add Wal-Mart to the PNO…
There are plenty of revelations in the annual sustainability report recently released by Toyota. By and large, the company is as ecologically-minded as a multi-national corporation can be, but as we've touched on before, not everything is as squeaky clean…
Six pharmaceutical companies and several governments have pledged more than $150m in medicines and funding over five years to tackle some of the most neglected diseases. The debilitating illnesses — including leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and sleeping sickness — affect 1bn…
