{"id":75162,"date":"2024-04-20T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T06:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=75162"},"modified":"2024-04-20T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T06:35:50","slug":"labour-has-abandoned-its-environmental-commitments-is-it-any-surprise-that-uk-big-business-is-following-its-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/20\/labour-has-abandoned-its-environmental-commitments-is-it-any-surprise-that-uk-big-business-is-following-its-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour has abandoned its environmental commitments. Is it any surprise that UK big business is following its lead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/apr\/19\/unilever-to-scale-back-environmental-and-social-pledges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian notes<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-4cudl2\">Unilever is to scale back its environmental and social aims, provoking critics to say its board should \u201chang their heads in shame\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-4cudl2\">They added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-4cudl2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On Friday, the London-based firm\u2019s current chief executive appeared to signal a strategic U-turn for the company, which is valued at \u00a394bn on the London Stock Exchange. In an interview with Bloomberg, Hein Schumacher confirmed plans to water down the company\u2019s ethical pledges on a range of issues including plastic usage and pay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There really can be no surprise here. Labour is expected to win the first term of what many will think likely to be at least a two term government this year. They have abandoned their green commitments and budgets. Why wouldn\u2019t business do the same?<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Reeves should take note. Her decisions and smooching around the City have consequences. It is by no means clear that they are good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian notes this morning: Unilever is to scale back its environmental and social aims, provoking critics to say its board should \u201chang their<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/04\/20\/labour-has-abandoned-its-environmental-commitments-is-it-any-surprise-that-uk-big-business-is-following-its-lead\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,108,16,74,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-ethics","category-green-new-deal","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75163,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75162\/revisions\/75163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}