Social enterprise brings hope and work to people with disabilities
TWO-and-a-half million Brits are expected to be unemployed this year, and there is concern about how disabled people especially will fare in the pandemic...
SMEs head online to counter lockdown — and find surprise benefits
SMALL UK businesses are moving the bulk of their services online as the sector takes tentative steps towards recovery.
Small Business Britain and BT Skills...
International debate on sustainable development at InterEcoForum
MARBELLA recently hosted the InterEcoForum, addressing sustainability, with presentations from 20 speakers from Spain, Russia, Greece, Latvia and Switzerland.
The two-day meeting looked at Sustainable...
Don’t demolish, retrofit: Buildings key to net zero in UK
THE UK’s net zero efforts have so far been defined by industry bodies calling for government action — but retrofitting buildings could be the...
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...
Commodity prices likely to rise further in 2018: World Bank
Oil prices to average $56 a barrel in 2018, up from 2017 average of $53/bbl
Oil prices are forecast to rise to $56 a barrel...
Cluck sakes! KFC’s brave new stand on intensive production
THERE is no “nice” way to kill a creature for its flesh, but KFC has at least taken a first step towards a more...
North America: Canada – Political Upset Ushers in New Era
Around this time last year, a Canadian TV station ran a poll and found that most of the population thought the country’s politics grey...
Mobile use ‘seed to irreversible climate change’
What links the world’s first mobile phone call, made 50 years ago, to climate change? JOHN MACK answers that one…
WHEN Martin Cooper made the...
IFC: Corporate Governance Practices in the European Union
For the first time, European Commission Directive 2006/46/EC required all listed companies to produce a corporate governance statement in their annual report to shareholders....
