Workers in some of the world’s biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change pushes temperatures up, a report found on Sunday, a problem multinational retailers and brands will have …
Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder Privinvest on Tuesday was refused permission to appeal against Mozambique’s victory in a London lawsuit over the decade-old “tuna bond” scandal. The southeast African country sued Privinvest and its now late owner Iskandar Safa, alleging they paid bribes …
The European Parliament’s biggest political group is mounting a campaign to weaken the EU’s main policies for cutting CO2 emissions from cars, a draft position paper seen by Reuters showed. The demands from the center-right European People’s Party (EPP), due …
A contractor hired by Facebook’s parent company Meta dismissed threats to content moderators by Ethiopian rebels angered by their work, according to new evidence filed in a case challenging the dismissal of dozens of moderators in Kenya. Last year 185 …
Shell Plc and Greenpeace reached an out-of-court settlement over a legal dispute that centered on climate activists boarding and occupying a Shell offshore vessel in the U.K. North Sea for 13 days. The London-based oil giant was claiming damages from …
Drivers who have had their car declared a total loss are noticeably impacted by how carriers communicate them. That’s according to survey of U.S. policyholders that shows drivers’ emotional state and their overall satisfaction with their carrier are affected by …
Some of the elderly residents of seven Louisiana nursing homes who were sent in 2021 to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse are being offered shares of a nearly $9 million settlement after they sued. Retired state …
After emerging from an unusually active hurricane season with market-beating returns, catastrophe bonds are rapidly adding investors. Despite the increase in extreme weather — 2024 marked the ninth straight season in which the Atlantic basin suffered above-average storm activity — …
Tesla aims to start its robotaxi service with a company-owned fleet backed up by human teleoperators for safety, Deutsche Bank said in a note after a meeting with the company’s head of investor relations. The electric vehicle maker still is …
States such as California are certainly experiencing a more ferocious wildfire season this year than a relatively quiet 2023. Combined CAL FIRE and U.S. Forest Service figures record over 1 million acres burnt in California this year, way above the …