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Apple introduces the advanced new Apple Watch Series 9

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Apple Watch Series 9 also has a new 4-core Neural Engine that can process machine learning tasks up to twice as fast, when compared with Apple Watch Series 8.

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  • Apple Watch Series 9 also has a new 4-core Neural Engine that can process machine learning tasks up to twice as fast, when compared with Apple Watch Series 8.
  • Select case and band combinations of Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra™ 2, and Apple Watch SE® are Apple’s first-ever carbon neutral products .
  • Three months of Apple Fitness+℠ are included for customers who purchase Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Ultra 2, or a new Apple Watch Series 4 or later.
  • Apple, the Apple logo, Apple Watch, Siri, iPhone, watchOS, Digital Crown, Taptic Engine, HomePod, Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch SE, Apple Store, and Apple Fitness+ are trademarks of Apple.

Apple unveils its first carbon neutral products

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Apple® today announced its first-ever carbon neutral products in the all-new Apple Watch® lineup.

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  • Apple® today announced its first-ever carbon neutral products in the all-new Apple Watch® lineup.
  • In 2020, Apple achieved carbon neutrality for its global corporate operations and announced Apple 2030: a bold strategy to be carbon neutral across its entire value chain by 2030.
  • All manufacturing for the carbon neutral Apple Watch models is powered by 100 percent clean electricity through investments and sourcing by Apple and its suppliers.
  • Apple, the Apple logo, Apple Watch, iPhone, Apple Watch Ultra, MagSafe, iPad, and Mac are trademarks of Apple.

MHI Hosts Successful CO2 Capture Plants User Conference in Bahrain

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

- MHI to promote its latest technologies and performance to government officials and a range of companies and organizations, enhancing the group's presence in the Middle East.

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  • - MHI to promote its latest technologies and performance to government officials and a range of companies and organizations, enhancing the group's presence in the Middle East.
  • TOKYO, June 29, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) held a user conference on May 17-18 in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, mainly for customers who have adopted MHI's carbon dioxide capture technology.
  • It will also enhance the presence of MHI Group in the Middle East by proactively responding to questions from the attendees with a keen interest in the field of CO2 capture.
  • The conference was held jointly with GPIC owing to MHI's record of providing CO2 capture technology for the company's petrochemical plants.

Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Apple® today announced a major acceleration of its work to expand recycled materials across its products, including a new 2025 target to use 100 percent recycled cobalt1 in all Apple-designed batteries.

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  • Apple® today announced a major acceleration of its work to expand recycled materials across its products, including a new 2025 target to use 100 percent recycled cobalt1 in all Apple-designed batteries.
  • Additionally, by 2025, magnets in Apple devices will use entirely recycled rare earth elements, and all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100 percent recycled tin soldering and 100 percent recycled gold plating.
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    By 2025, all Apple-designed batteries will be made with 100 percent recycled cobalt, and magnets in Apple devices will use 100 percent recycled rare earth elements.
  • In 2022, a quarter of all cobalt found in Apple products came from recycled material, up from 13 percent the previous year.

China Medical System (867.HK) S&P Global CSA Score Achieved Significant Improvement, Leading the Industry Globally

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Friday, November 18, 2022

SHENZHEN, CHINA, Nov. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recently, the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (S&P Global CSA) released the 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scores for China Medical System Holdings Limited ("CMS" or the "Group").

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  • SHENZHEN, CHINA, Nov. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recently, the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (S&P Global CSA) released the 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scores for China Medical System Holdings Limited ("CMS" or the "Group").
  • CMS achieved a significant improvement with a score of 53 in 2022 from 36 in 2021, surpassing 92% of the global peers and being significantly ahead of the industry average.
  • S&P Global CSA is the global leading assessment tool of corporate sustainability practices initiated by S&P Global.
  • S&P Global CSA has been regarded, by stakeholders, as one of the most important references for making business or investment decisions.

Apple Helps Suppliers Rapidly Accelerate Renewable Energy Use Around the World

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Apple is constantly working with its global supply chain to accelerate and support its transition to clean energy.

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  • Apple is constantly working with its global supply chain to accelerate and support its transition to clean energy.
  • This includes new commitments from suppliers such as Ruicycle, which will be using clean energy in its closed-loop recycling processes for Apple.
  • In 2018, Apple took an innovative approach to accelerate renewable progress in China with the launch of the China Clean Energy Fund.
  • Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

10 richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall

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Monday, January 17, 2022

Billionaires' wealth has risen more in the 22 months since COVID-19 began than it has in the last 14 years.

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  • Billionaires' wealth has risen more in the 22 months since COVID-19 began than it has in the last 14 years.
  • All this, while still leaving these men $10 billionbetter off than they were before the pandemic.
  • The world's response to the pandemic has unleashed this economic violence particularly acutely across racialized, marginalized and gendered lines.
  • The 252 richest men have more wealth than all one billion women and girls in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined.

Apple Charges Forward to 2030 Carbon Neutral Goal, Adding 9 Gigawatts of Clean Power and Doubling Supplier Commitments

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

In total, 175 Apple suppliers will transition to using renewable energy, and the company and its suppliers will bring online more than 9 gigawatts of clean power around the world.

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  • In total, 175 Apple suppliers will transition to using renewable energy, and the company and its suppliers will bring online more than 9 gigawatts of clean power around the world.
  • The company added 10 new projects for its first-of-a-kind Power for Impact initiative to bring clean energy solutions to communities around the world.
  • While Apple is already carbon neutral across its global operations, by 2030, every Apple device sold will have a net-zero climate impact.
  • Apple, the Apple logo, Power for Impact, iPhone, and MacBook Pro are trademarks of Apple.

LG Display Highlights its ESG Management in Sustainability Report for 2021

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Friday, August 13, 2021

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug.13,2021 /PRNewswire/ --LG Display, the world's leading innovator of display technologies, highlights its ESG management by outlining the company's ESG activities and achievements in pursuit of a greener planet in its Sustainability Report for 2021.

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  • SEOUL, South Korea, Aug.13,2021 /PRNewswire/ --LG Display, the world's leading innovator of display technologies, highlights its ESG management by outlining the company's ESG activities and achievements in pursuit of a greener planet in its Sustainability Report for 2021.
  • LG Display also maintained its status as an excellent company for 3 straight years since 2018 for its excellence in environmental impact management.
  • As the world's leading display company, LG Display is focused on constantly innovating and improving the value and quality of its products.
  • This year's LG Display Sustainability Report was published in a total of four languages Korean, Chinese, English and Vietnamese.

Deportation of foreign national offenders

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Thursday, January 2, 2020

House of Commons LibraryDeportation of foreign national offenders This Commons Library briefing paper provides an overview of the Home Secretary's powers to deport foreign criminals from the UK, related Government policy and Parliamentary and external scrutiny of the efficiency of current procedures.Powers to deport foreign criminalsPeople who are not British citizens are liable to deportation from the UK if the Home Secretary deems their deportation to be conducive to the public good.

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House of Commons Library

Deportation of foreign national offenders


    This Commons Library briefing paper provides an overview of the Home Secretary's powers to deport foreign criminals from the UK, related Government policy and Parliamentary and external scrutiny of the efficiency of current procedures.

Powers to deport foreign criminals

    • People who are not British citizens are liable to deportation from the UK if the Home Secretary deems their deportation to be conducive to the public good.
    • The UK Borders Act 2007 made provision for the automatic deportation of foreign criminals.
    • The Home Secretary must make a deportation order in respect of a foreign criminal unless certain exceptions apply (e.g.where deportation would contravene the UKs obligations under the Refugee and Human Rights Conventions).
    • The timeframe for the changes to be implemented will depend on the type of exit the UK has from the EU.

Appeals

    • The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 sets out the considerations to which tribunals and courts must have regard when hearing an appeal by a foreign national offender against a deportation order.
    • In July 2017 the Supreme Court found the deport first, appeal later rules to be unfair and unlawful.
    • Originally applied only to foreign national offenders facing deportation from the UK, the approach was extended in 2016 so that any appellant challenging an immigration decision (other than in asylum cases) could be required to leave the UK.

Operation Nexus

    • Operation Nexus is a joint operation between the Home Offices Immigration Enforcement Directorate and several police forces.
    • Described as a means of more effectively tackling offending by foreign nationals, its focus was said to be on identifying highharm offenders.
    • An unsuccessful legal challenge was brought by the AIRE Centre in 2017, and their subsequent appeal was dismissed in 2018.

Deportation with assurances

    • As both the Refugee and Human Rights conventions prohibit deportation when there is a real risk of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the receiving state, the UK has pursued a policy of deportation with assurances [DWA] in the cases of foreign nationals suspected of terrorism.
    • The policy has been criticised by both human rights advocates and by those who feel the strict conditions imposed by the European Court of Human Rights infringe upon British sovereignty.
    • His report, co-authored with Clive Walker QC, professor emeritus of criminal justice studies at Leeds University, was published in July 2017.

Scrutiny

    • The Home Affairs Select Committee criticised the Home Offices decision to set targets for deportation in their 2018 report into the Windrush Generation.
    • In its June 2016 report on the work of the Immigration Directorates, the Home Affairs Committee focussed on efforts to deport foreign national offenders with EU citizenship, concluding that the Government should have done better.
    • In its response the Home Office argued that the number of foreign national offenders removed from the UK in 2015-16 was the highest since records began.
    • The Committee noted in 2015 that over a third of failed deportations were within HomeOffice control.