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Levi Strauss takes clean textile pact to four countries
2016-09-05 17:41:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
US jeans giant Levi Strauss is to roll-out a programme to reduce water, energy, chemical use at six textile factories in four major sourcing countries.
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China, US and Europe pledge support for global aviation emissions pact
2016-09-05 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China, the United States and Europe all pledged support on Saturday for a new deal to curb carbon dioxide emissions by airlines which is due to be finalised at a meeting of the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in September and is expected to go into effect from 2021. Aviation was excluded from last December's climate accord in Paris when countries agreed to limit the global average rise in in temperatures to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial...
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U.S., China commit to global climate pact
2016-09-04 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democrat-Gazette: President Barack Obama and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Saturday sealed their nations' participation in last year's Paris climate change agreement, hailing their new era of climate cooperation as the best chance for saving the planet. At a ceremony on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit, Obama and Xi, representing the world's two biggest carbon emitters, delivered a series of documents to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The papers certified that the U.S. and China have taken...
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U.S. states signed pact to keep Exxon climate probe confidential
2016-08-04 06:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A pact that 15 U.S. states signed to jointly investigate Exxon Mobil Corp for allegedly misleading the public about climate change sought to keep prosecutors' deliberations confidential and was broadly written so they could probe other fossil fuel companies. The "Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement" was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world's largest publicly-traded oil and gas company,...
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Bangladesh clean textile pact gets an extension
2016-07-29 16:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Bangladesh Water PaCT (Partnership for Cleaner Textile) initiative has been extended for a further year to help it meet its goals of reducing environmental and related social impacts of textile wet processing.
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