The redbrick offices, just north of Hamburg’s River Elbe and a few floors below Carlsberg’s German headquarters, are an unexpectedly low-key setting for a food…
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UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’
A UN-led panel of nearly 100 countries is to draw up new guidelines to prevent some of the environmental damage and human rights abuses associated…
View More UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’Barclaycard change could mean much higher interest for some customers
Some Barclaycard customers who only make the minimum repayment each month will take an extra decade to clear their debt and pay hundreds of pounds…
View More Barclaycard change could mean much higher interest for some customers‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third
The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists has increased by more than a third at UN talks to agree the first global treaty…
View More ‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a thirdCar insurance firms agree to crack down on ‘poverty premium’
Insurers have promised to clean up their act after coming under fire over the “poverty premium”, whereby customers who cannot afford to pay for car…
View More Car insurance firms agree to crack down on ‘poverty premium’Leading UK lenders raise fixed-rate mortgage deals amid ‘market uncertainty’
At least five leading lenders increased rates on their fixed mortgage deals on Tuesday in response to “market uncertainty”, adding to pressure on homebuyers and…
View More Leading UK lenders raise fixed-rate mortgage deals amid ‘market uncertainty’‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat
The water industry regulator has spent £26.7m on business consultants in the past five years, including several companies that have simultaneously worked for private water…
View More ‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat‘Every penny has a purpose’: the rise of zero-based budgeting
Each month 20,000 people tune in to watch 27-year-old Beth Fuller work out how to spend her salary. For a year and a half she…
View More ‘Every penny has a purpose’: the rise of zero-based budgeting‘Dirty secret’: insiders say UK water firms knowingly break sewage laws
Whistleblowers say UK water companies are knowingly failing to treat legally required amounts of sewage, and that some treatment works are manipulating wastewater systems to…
View More ‘Dirty secret’: insiders say UK water firms knowingly break sewage lawsUK supermarkets accused of misleading labelling on origins of food products
“Misleading” and “inconsistent” labels make it hard for shoppers to know where their food comes from, the consumer champion Which? has said, as it found…
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