'Crucial and urgent': Why companies have mobilised behind the push to 'green' the Companies Act

Cecilia Keating
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'Crucial and urgent': Why companies have mobilised behind the push to 'green' the Companies Act

More than 1,000 firms have come together today to call on government to embed environmental and social responsibility in UK company law - BusinessGreen catches up with the Better Business Act campaign on its first anniversary

It has been one year since a coalition of businesses united behind a push to reform UK company law to ensure companies are made legally responsible for improving outcomes for the environment, workers,...

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