Norges Bank has divested from a major traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) company in the wake of EIA’s major exposé Investing in Extinction, which found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 products. The bank cited an ‘unacceptable risk’ of Tianjin Pharmaceutical Da Re Tang Group Corp […]
The 69th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in Lima, Peru, where some countries will be pushing for the creation of a new whale sanctuary and others for a return to commercial whaling. Contracting governments to the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling will meet for five days to discuss a […]
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Norges Bank has excluded four major traditional Chinese medicine firms from the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global for posing an “unacceptable risk” of contributing to severe environmental damage