Nike has agreed to pay USD1 million to about 4,500 workers at a PT Nikomas plant in Indonesia as compensation in a dispute over unpaid overtime. The workers' union claimed that 593,468 hours of overtime went unpaid over the last two years.
Sportswear giant NIKE last week raised the sustainability stakes for similar global brands by announcing an action plan to eliminate hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 2020.
Greenpeace has published a new report, Dirty Laundry, that profiles the problem of toxic water pollution resulting from the release of hazardous chemicals by the textile industry in China.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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