Only 65% of UK firms have plan to cut emissions to net zero, study shows

Post-Brexit uncertainty partly blamed for low rate with just half of companies surveyed measuring their carbon footprintJust 65% of UK businesses have a plan to reduce their emissions to net zero by the 2050 deadline, the largest ever industry survey h…

EU approves watered-down human rights and supply chain law

Revised corporate sustainability directive, first agreed in December, draws criticism from environmental campaignersEU countries have slashed the scope of a law to make companies hunt down human rights abuse and environmental harm in their supply chain…

Better prices are not enough: good procurement practices are essential to ending povertyand deforestation in cocoa value chains, reveals new paper [Promoted content]

Poverty and inequality are at the root of many of the human rights and the environmental issues in the global cocoa value chain. At the producer level poverty leaves those at the beginning of this chain with few choices. It forces them to rely on their…