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UK: Businesses break ranks to lobby against new Heathrow runway
A group of senior business leaders have broken the business consensus in favour of airport expansion to oppose the government's plans for a third runway at Heathrow on environmental grounds.
Switzerland: Credit Suisse to go carbon neutral
Credit Suisse has announced that it aims to make its domestic banking operations carbon neutral during this year.
Swiss Banks sued for involvement in apartheid South Africa
Two Swiss Banks are facing a $50bn class-action lawsuit suggesting that their financial dealings in South Africa prolonged the white-only rule in violation of international law.
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Social responsibility and finance - on the precipice
In a recent article, the BBC's economics editor Robert Peston highlighted the fact that in 2012 the chances are that the economy - punch drunk as it is from the various flavours of debt crisis it has been pummelled with over the course of the year - will be hit by the collapse of a major bank and / or government.
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