The announcement comes as regulators worldwide are increasingly focusing on potentially misleading sustainability claims made by companies, particularly in the fashion and clothing sectors.

The Labor Department says that while businesses may be looking to hiring younger workers in a tight job market, it's important to make sure they are protected.

Latest estimates show that forced labour and forced marriage have increased significantly in the last five years, according to the International Labour Organization, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration.

Republican politicians claim big financial firms are using environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing to try to bankrupt the fossil fuel industry and to advance other purported liberal objectives they couldn't achieve at the ballot box.

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IKEA Tianjin Dongli shopping mall: "zero energy consumption" shopping mall successfully connected to the grid for power generation

APPLE WANTS TO MAKE SMARTPHONES FROM ‘WASTE’

China launches first network for senior talent to help elderly people

Chinese island plans to ban sales of fossil fuel-powered vehicles by 2030

Polystyrene has been turned into a valuable chemical found in seaweed – by exposing it to sunlight.