A new survey has revealed that an increasing amount of seasonal foods use sustainably produced ingredients. However, some companies are still using palm oil that contributes...
Investors are being told to stay away from a palm oil company whose founder is one of the bosses of an illegal logging firm in Indonesia....
Wilmar, the world’s biggest palm oil company, has launched a new ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ policy in order to improve its sustainability credentials. The...
Paul Polman, chief executive of the consumer goods group Unilever, has become the first sitting CEO of a major multinational company to be awarded the WWF...
Lush produces fresh handmade cosmetics, with little or no packaging, and follows ethical principles that defend the environment, people and animals. It was 1994 when Mark...
Investors are increasingly concerned about the security and ethics within companies’ supply chains, with requests for corporate information through CDP’s forests programme more than doubling in...
Anglo-Dutch consumer goods firm Unilever has announced that by the end of 2014, any palm oil in its products will be traceable in order to determine...
A number of organisations have launched the European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC), in order to invite states to source woods from sustainable plantations and tackle deforestation....
High street bank HSBC has been accused of “bankrolling the destruction of rainforests” that are essential for the survival of orangutans and other endangered species. The...
Halloween is a big business. In the UK between 2001 and 2010, retailers reported an astronomical rise in Halloween-related spending, from £12m to £280m. This year,...
Top beauty firms have been criticised by environmental campaigners over the use of unsustainable palm oil as a key ingredient in their products. A survey by...
Apart from being popular in Chinese cuisine, seaweed has another quality that may be useful in everyday life: as a source of clean energy. Attempts to...
Singapore’s pollution standards index has reached the hazardous level of 371, because of the illegal burning of forests in nearby Indonesia. Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien...
A judge is considering rejecting a deal that would open HSBC up to criminal prosecution in court, prison for executives, massive fines and no freedom to...
Friends of the Earth has claimed that two high street banks are funding a palm oil company involved in land grabbing activities in Uganda, violating environmental...