Chocolate frenzy: don’t bite into the wrong bar, students advise
Dutch university probe highlights one company’s go-ahead policy to avoid cacao from unethical sources
A GROUP of International business management students from the Fontys University...
Balance Between the Need For Palm Oil and Environmental Concerns is...
South east Asia’s palm oil industry is facing tough criticism as many producers refuse to comply with sustainability targets, but are the farmers getting...
IFC: Climate Change – Threat and Opportunity for Private Sector
As world leaders met at the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in...
More holes in the high street: Gap shuts UK and Irish...
FASHION giant Gap is the latest firm to forego bricks and mortar and embrace e-commerce, announcing plans to close its 81 stores in the...
EV News Round-up Summer 2019
By RICHARD THOMAS
IT HAS been a busy year for electric vehicle manufacturers.
Tesla’s Model Y, an SUV based on the Model 3, has been spotted...
Key announcements from Spring Budget that affect entrepreneurs
By SARAH BALCHIN
WITH all the speculation around changes to personal tax in the run up to the Spring Budget, in the end, very little...
No, we’re not taking the mickey: these wee bricks mean business
THE world’s first bio-brick created from human urine has been unveiled at University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Bio-bricks are created through a natural process...
‘Green’ energy overtakes fossil fuels in the UK — but only...
By JASON AGNEW
WITH just half the year gone, the National Grid has confidently predicted that 2019 will be the year when zero-carbon energy overtakes...
Winnie Byanyima: From the Bush to the Global Stage
Oxfam International’s dynamic director Winnie Byanyima possesses a most extraordinary CV. Her career includes working as Uganda’s first female aeronautical engineer, living in the...
SDG6: Covid means access to clean water and sanitation goes down...
Of all the SDGs, few have suffered the impact of Covid-19 as rapidly or profoundly as number six: ‘To ensure availability and sustainable management...
