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Three football clubs 'shamed' for underpaying staff

2017-12-08 12:22:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Three Scottish teams are among 28 employers who failed to pay staff the minimum wage.

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Named and shamed: the top funds blocking climate action

2016-09-06 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Environmental issues like climate change "have real and quantifiable financial impacts," Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said in a letter to business chiefs in May. Fink praised shareholder activists, saying they often had better strategies for dealing with long-term risk than company boards. Why then did the world`s biggest fund of its kind, with US$4.7 billion of assets under management, side with ExxonMobil at its AGM against a proposal to do just that? "It is real hypocrisy," said Julian Poulter,...

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Firms named and shamed over failure to pay minimum wage

2016-08-11 18:54:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The government names almost 200 companies - including two football clubs - who have failed to pay the minimum wage to employees.

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Mexico just shamed the rest of the world with its climate plan

2015-03-30 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Mexico is the first developing country to formally make its climate action pledge ahead of U.N. negotiations to be held in Paris later this year. And its plan is actually pretty ambitious, analysts say. Mexico on Friday said it intends to have its greenhouse gas emissions peak by 2026 and then begin to decline. It will cut its black carbon emissions -- particulate pollution generated by burning fuels like wood and diesel -- in half by 2030. The net effect is that, by 2030, Mexicos emissions...

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