Quelques mois après la tenue à Kinshasa des Etats généraux des Mines, l’Etat congolais a toujours du mal à cerner les contours d’un secteur qui semble lui échapper. Des analyses fiables parlent des pertes annuelles évaluées à des milliards de…
Les organisations non gouvernementales du secteur forestier sont montées au créneau pour rappeler à l’administration congolaise chargée de l’environnement, conservation de la nature que les conséquences incalculables à l’environnement sont à prévoir si les foràªts sont mal gérées et détruites…
Pressure is expected to mount on retailers and food manufacturers selling products containing palm oil from plantations that contribute to rainforest deforestation, after Unilever yesterday announced plans to only use palm oil that has been certified as environmentally sustainable. The…
Should poor governments be allowed to break drug patents for humanitarian reasons? That question is front-and-center at a major public health conference sponsored by the World Health Organization that started on 28 April in Geneva. Top-notch policy experts from around…
BHP Billiton has incurred the wrath of campaigners who are now planning a series of demonstrations against the company for its backing of the Beijing Olympics. The mining giant is one of a handful of major corporate sponsors of the…
C’est un divorce retentissant, mais surtout aux conséquences insoupà§onnées qui risque d’àªtre prononcé dès ce début de semaine, entre le gouvernement congolais et le groupe britannique Tullow Oil Plc à la faveur de la réunion du conseil des ministres. A…
Most of us now understand that pollution from cars causes global warming. So, we also know that driving cleaner cars — like Toyota’s low-emission, 48 miles-per-gallon (mpg) Prius hybrid — means less global warming pollution. Unfortunately, the overall truth about…
PROTESTERS — some dressed as orang-utans — claimed success last night in a campaign to highlight the destruction of the rainforests after storming Unilever’s soap factory in Wirral. Around 60 members of Greenpeace had stormed into the Port Sunlight factory…
The United Methodist Church announced this week that it had achieved “positive results” in its negotiations with large construction manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. to review use of its equipment and examine its ties to Israeli military forces. The Protestant church body,…
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 1st Quarter of 2008. The main results across sectors are: > Unilever,…
