Day: 19 October 2018

Shell announces methane emissions intensity target for oil and gas assets

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) have announced a target to maintain methane emissions intensity below 0.2% by 2025. This target covers all oil and gas assets for which Shell is the operator. “This methane target complements Shell’s ambition to cut the Net Carbon Footprint of our energy products by around half by 2050, which we announced in November 2017,” said Maarten Wetselaar, Shell’s Integrated Gas & New Energies Director. “It is a further demonstration of our continued focus on tackling greenhouse gas emissions. Such efforts are a critical part of…

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HP and Girl Rising Celebrate International Day of the Girl with 12 Stories of Empowerment from Around the Globe

Stuart Mitchell

In honor of International Day of the Girl, HP and Girl Rising, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating poverty by providing education to girls, are celebrating 12 stories of female empowerment gathered from around the globe as part of the first ever Girl Rising Creative Challenge. Introduced on International Women’s Day in March, the challenge was a call-to-action to highlight storytelling that has the power to change the world. More than 880 stories were submitted from people in 110 countries who entered essays, videos, art and more about how they, or…

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Film director Shekhar Kapur and actor Parminder Nagra launch animation with WaterAid on impact of water crisis on girls

Stuart Mitchell

Acclaimed Indian film director Shekhar Kapur has collaborated with international charity WaterAid to create a short animation, Brides of the Well, adapted from a story written by Shekhar to highlight how the global water crisis affects women and girls. Narrated by Bend It Like Beckham and ER star, Parminder Nagra, the film tells the story of Saraswati and Paras; two teenagers living in Punjab, northern India, who are forced into child marriage and a life of servitude, centred round walking long distances to collect water for their aging husbands. It…

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Girls Will Be … Whatever They Want To Be

Stuart Mitchell

Creative agency Wongdoody and its in-house marketing consultancy June Cleaver Is Dead (JCID) have teamed with global network for women SheSays to ask: You’ve likely (and unfortunately) heard the phrase “Boys will be boys and girls will be girls”. So to honor International Day of the Girl and flip the narrative, we asked girls to tell us what “Girls will be” in their own words. We wanted to celebrate the sense of power and possibility that girls are learning to embrace around the world, and to inspire those who are…

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Aardman animation shines light on mental health worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

The Academy Award®-winning studio that made Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit has created a film to underline how mental ill health is a global issue, affecting everyone, everywhere. The thought-provoking animation by Aardman is set inside a head-shaped printer’s tray filled with bits and bobs, such as little figures hugging, a coin jar, a spinning globe, and a person ready at the end of a phone line. As the narrator, Stephen Fry, talks about different aspects of the global scale of mental health, the camera zooms in on…

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