Year: 2019

‘Fake Views’ film from Operation Black Vote encourages voter registration

Stuart Mitchell

Operation Black Vote (OBV) has released a campaign that uses real quotes from politicians to urgently encourage Britain’s disenfranchised youth, particularly Black and Minority Ethnic youth to register to vote. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi London the hard-hitting awareness campaign highlights some of the controversial words uttered by politicians.The campaign depicts the notion that politicians represent those who vote for them, and therefore, encourages BAME and minority communities to vote so they are fairly represented in Parliament.  The forthcoming election is broadly seen as one of the most important political events in…

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Dove makes industry-leading global plastic commitment

Stuart Mitchell

Dove, one of the largest and best-loved beauty brands in the world, unveils new initiatives to accelerate the global beauty industry’s progress to address plastic waste. Through a combination of alternative packaging materials, recycled plastic and investing in refill technology, Dove is driving a movement to create a new value for plastics and reduce the volume of plastic it produces. As one of the biggest known reduction plans of its kind in the beauty industry, the amount of virgin plastic Dove will save globally per year would be enough to…

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Unilever joins Evenbreak with commitment to improve workplace inclusion for people with disabilities

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has announced it will now advertise all available job vacancies in the UK and Ireland on Evenbreak, a specialist job site run by and for people with disabilities.   Whilst the World Health Organisation estimates there are over a billion people currently living with disabilities, in the business world today only 4% of businesses are focused on making offerings inclusive of disability. Unilever, which has an ambition to become the number one employer of choice for people with disabilities, is committed to adapting recruitment processes and the workplace environment…

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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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