Pour accompagner FinanCités dans son développement, BNP Paribas s’est engagé à souscrire à hauteur d’un montant maximum de 1 million d’euros à son capital, rejoignant ainsi d’autres établissements financiers qui font déjà partie des actionnaires fondateurs de FinanCités. Le protocole d’accord signé par BNP Paribas prévoit par ailleurs que le groupe participe au Conseil de [...]

The Cadbury Cocoa Partnership initiative is now active in 100 Ghanaian communities, Chief Executive Officer of Cadbury plc, Todd Stitzer, has said in Accra. Mr Stitzer was in the country last week to check on progress made since the launch of the cocoa partnership last year.The ₤45-million Cadbury Cocoa Partnership is meant to help improve [...]

Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions _ including whether it’s a real disease at all. Key components of the industry-funded buzz over the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia are grants _ more [...]

People in developing countries run health risks from pharmaceutical companies testing drugs on them for the Western market. An Indian research report published today again shows several pharmaceutical companies’ disregard for ethical rules. ‘The Indian Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights has examined, among other things, the way GlaxoSmithKline tested a breast cancer drug [...]

2009 started with a lot of new green chemical offerings ranging from the cleaning industry, to automobile and construction. Here are some of the selected ones mostly in the plastic arena. Hint: If you want your newly launched green chemicals/technology to be included in my monthly list, pls. email the press release to me at [...]

The word came last spring at a climate change conference here. Unilever, the world’s largest buyer of palm oil, would publicly call for a moratorium on deforestation by Indonesian growers of the coveted oil used in food, soaps, detergents, cosmetics and biofuel. The expansion of oil palm plantations is slowly destroying Kalimantan, the Indonesian side [...]