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...I and my colleagues suggest we need a system that ensures fair compensation by those countries and corporations consuming meat, timber and other commodities at the expense of the biodiversity and ecosystems...
...Design throughout is Nordic post-apocalypse chic for the one per cent: comfy minimalism framed in heavy cross-laminated timber and low lighting suggest a hygge space station....
...“[The] shift towards market fundamentalism and increasingly powerful transnational corporations”, the researchers write, “has created a pathological system in which commercial actors are increasingly enabled...
...Much of the tangled steel rebar, hunks of concrete, and aluminium, stone, timber and glass from buildings demolished across the capital is destined for recycling plants, where it will be crushed into tiny...
...Jess Christman wants to expand his timber business in the Scottish Highlands but is worried that rising interest rates will hinder his investment plans....
...Militants have burnt buses, churches and schools, attacked lorries and stolen timber. Like his ancestors, Juan Cayul Queipul, 64, has spent his entire life in this mountainous area....
...The living space’s central feature is a quarry-tiled cube housing a fireplace; beside it, a suspended timber staircase leads to the upper floor....
...The attic has been converted into a modern office, but gnarly, 130-year-old timber beams have been left in a sea of blond wood....
...But now governments and corporations worldwide are pushing to expand its use in bigger public buildings, homes and offices....
...I find another convert after driving past the 350-acre site where bike trails and sustainable timber buildings are taking shape on the new campus which Walmart will move to next year....
...The current one, built out of concrete and steel, replaced a 19th-century stone-arched bridge, which in turn superseded a medieval structure, going all the way back to timber bridges built by the Romans....
...“Every sizeable corporation in the world has made a commitment to net zero,” Ali says of a string of carbon emissions pledges, some more credible than others, by companies from Shell to British Airways and...
...The prices of key materials, such as timber, steel and concrete, are up by 60-80 per cent in the year to July, according to figures from the Business Department....
...The Chinese buy oil, shrimp, bananas, cut flowers, cacao and timber from Ecuador....
...Brussels to corporations: clean up your supply chains It’s an awkward time for Brussels to be chuntering on about exporting its values around the world through trade: as my colleagues describe, the EU has...
...(Patrick Temple-West and Kristen Talman) A $40bn public corporation sees benefit in public benefit corporations Delaware is home to more US companies than any other state, and since 2013 it has let them...
...Decades of corporate greed and state mismanagement had fuelled an unsustainable cycle of extraction, with entire forests felled for timber and cleared for farmland....
...Most of the leading corporations trading in them have resolved to end deforestation in their supply chains. Some progress has been made, but deforestation continues....
...In 1962, he set up Electronic Data Systems Corporation. Its principal business was the computerisation of medical insurance records....
...Neighbouring states, such as Mississippi, offer more financial support, he said, but Arkansas has natural resources, including cotton and timber, which helped to bring in investments in textiles and paper...
...development plans, Mexico wants to build a tourist, passenger and freight train around the Yucatán Peninsular and a cargo train across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and plant 1m hectares of trees for fruit and timber...
...“It is government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.” I drive five hours across some of America’s most breathtaking scenery to meet Mike Weaver....
...China is absorbing the archipelago’s exports of timber, minerals, fish and palm oil and providing the Solomons with everything from cooking pots to roofing iron to plastic toys....
...Many say they buy Nigerian raw materials, such as timber and marble, which they then export to buyers in China or Europe in exchange for Chinese renminbi....
...Share prices for the two largest Canadian lumber corporations, Canfor Corporation and West Fraser Timber Co Ltd, and Weyerhaeuser Co, the largest US producer, have all hit record highs this month....
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