Day: 25 November 2019

Volvo Cars to radically reduce carbon emissions as part of new ambitious climate plan

Stuart Mitchell

Volvo Cars has launched one of the most ambitious plans in the automotive industry, aiming to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40 per cent between 2018 and 2025. This is the first, tangible step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition of becoming a climate-neutral company by 2040. The plan represents concrete actions in line with the global Paris climate agreement of 2015, which seeks to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Volvo Cars’ 2040 ambitions go beyond addressing tailpipe emissions through all-out electrification, another area…

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FCA announces future work on climate change and green finance

Stuart Mitchell

The FCA has published a feedback statement setting out its proposals to improve climate change disclosures by issuers and information to consumers on green financial products and services. The Statement identifies a number of priorities, which will provide a foundation for the FCA’s future work on climate change and green finance. These include issuers’ climate change disclosures, regulated firms’ integration of climate change risk and opportunities into their decision-making and consumers’ access to green financial products and services. Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA said: ‘We have an important…

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Realia Marketing MD announced as PRCA MarComms Group Chairman

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) is pleased to announce Paul Williamson CMPRCA, Managing Director, Realia Marketing as inaugural Chairman for the newly founded PRCA MarComms Group. The Group’s objectives will be to raise standards in the Marketing Communications industry. This Group will be collegiate, drawing on the expertise and experience of the industry’s brightest minds to create the agenda. And that agenda will provide unique support at all levels – from seasoned agency CEOs and Marketing Directors, to the next generation of marketing professionals. Paul Williamson CMPRCA, Managing…

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John Lewis Partnership to stop selling Christmas crackers with plastic toys inside

Stuart Mitchell

John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners have announced that this will be the last Christmas when they sell Christmas crackers with plastic toys inside. Instead crackers will be filled with toys made from recyclable materials such as metal and paper games, and decorated with techniques such as embossing, rather than plastic glitter.  The decision has been made as part of the Partnership’s plans to cut down on single use plastic products.  This year John Lewis & Partners is selling three own brand designs of ‘fill your own’ crackers,…

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Christmas Comes early to Charities on the Making a Difference Card Platform

Stuart Mitchell

With the recent release of their two newest features, Video and Audio messages and Website embedding, charities across the UK now have the opportunity to gain greater donations from the sales of Personalised Greeting Cards and 3D E-Cards – just in time for Christmas thanks to services provided by Making A Difference Cards. And these gifts are wrapped up beautifully in the fact that Making A Difference Cards makes no charge for these services- Yes they are FREE- and they take No Commission from donations made. Donors can now create…

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