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USA: 61+ NGOs call on business leaders to speak out against Trump's travel restrictions at Strategic & Policy Forum
Author: Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable, Institute for Human Rights and Business, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility & 61 organizations
"ICAR, IHRB, ICCR, and Co-signers Submit Letter to Business Leaders on President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum", 2 Feb 2017...
Fortune 100 companies respond to Trump's travel ban
Author: Tory Newmyer, David Morris, Madeline Farber & Lucinda Shen, Fortune (USA)
“23 Huge Companies That Have Responded to President Trump’s Immigration Ban”, 31 January 2017...
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- Related companies: 21st Century Fox Alphabet Amazon.com American Express Apple Bank of America Cisco Systems Citigroup Coca-Cola FedEx Ford General Electric General Motors Goldman Sachs Google (part of Alphabet) Hewlett Packard Enterprise IBM J.P. Morgan (part of JPMorgan Chase) JPMorgan Chase Merck Microsoft Morgan Stanley Nike Procter & Gamble Wells Fargo
USA: Tech companies' CEOs take lead in denouncing Trump's immigration orders, other sectors largely stay silent
Author: Devika Krishna Kumar & Ross Kerber, Reuters (UK)
"RPT-Trump travel ban stirs faint corporate outcry beyond Silicon Valley", 30 Jan 2017...
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- Related companies: Allergan Apple Bank of America Blackstone Boeing Citigroup ExxonMobil Facebook Ford General Electric General Motors Goldman Sachs Google (part of Alphabet) JPMorgan Chase Morgan Stanley Nike Starbucks Tesla Motors Uber Wells Fargo
Author: 20 Minutes et AFP (France)
« Décret anti-immigration: Starbucks, Uber et d'autes grandes entreprises américaines répondent à Trump », 30 janvier 2017...
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- Related in-depth areas: USA: Trump administration actions on business & human rights
- Related companies: Apple General Electric General Motors JPMorgan Chase Lyft Starbucks Tesla Motors Twitter Uber
China: Graphite production for lithium-ion batteries causes severe environmental pollution; complaints by villagers are suppressed
Author: Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post
“In your phone, in their air - A trace of graphite is in consumer tech. In these Chinese villages, it’s everywhere.”, 2 October 2016...
Negative effects of lithium mining on indigenous communities in Chile & Argentina exposed by Washington Post investigation; includes company statements
Author: Todd C. Frankel & Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post
“Tossed aside in the ‘white gold’ rush: Indigenous people are left poor as tech world takes lithium from under their feet”, 19 December 2016...
- Related stories: Tracking human rights violations & environmental impacts in lithium batteries supply chains in China, DRC & So. America
- Related companies: Amazon.com Apple FMC General Motors LG Chem LG Electronics (part of LG Corp.) Panasonic Samsung Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) Tesla Motors Toyota
USA: Companies continue to reduce emissions despite appointment of climate sceptic to lead Environmental Protection Agency
Author: Bradley Olson & Cassandra Sweet, Wall Street Journal (USA)
"Companies on Climate: Trump or No, Still Cutting Emissions," 8 Dec 2016...
USA: Corporate Equality Index scores record number of companies full marks for having inclusive policies for LGBT workers
Author: Janes Hartley, Ambassadeur des Etats-Unis d’Amérique en France et à Monaco, dans Huffington Post (France)
« Les entreprises américaines ouvrent la voie dans la lutte contre le changement climatique », 4 novembre 2016...
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Company disclosure of water management strategies exemplifies importance of water security for climate action
Author: Carbon Disclosure Project
"Thirsty business: Why water is vital to climate action, 2016 Annual Report of Corporate Water Disclosure", Nov 2016...
- Related in-depth areas: Mitigation
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