Day: 17 September 2020

UK supermarkets can halve throwaway plastic by 2025 by reducing plastic across 54 grocery categories

Stuart Mitchell

The report from Greenpeace models how the UK supermarkets could make significant reductions to the amount of plastic they produce by focusing their attention on the packaging for ​54 grocery categories​. ​The analysis also shows that ​changing the packaging for just 13 categories of popular groceries, like fizzy drinks, fruit and vegetables, and household detergents, supermarkets could reduce plastic by approximately 35%, remove 45 billion pieces of supermarket plastic, and more than 300,000 tonnes of plastic. This is the equivalent weight of 7,000 supermarket delivery lorries, that if lined up…

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Ingka Group increases its sustainability investments by EUR 600 million over coming 12 months

Stuart Mitchell

Ingka Group will accelerate its investments to further enable the transition to reach the IKEA overall commitment to become climate positive by 2030. Over the coming year, the company has committed to invest EUR 600 million more into companies, solutions and its own operations to enable the transition to a net zero carbon economy. This increases its overall investments into sustainability to EUR 3.8 billion.    Since 2009 Ingka Group1, through its investment arm Ingka Investments2, has continued to invest in innovative companies that support its sustainability goals, including achieving…

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The VELUX Group commits to capture its historical carbon footprint and become Lifetime Carbon Neutral in partnership with WWF

Stuart Mitchell

The VELUX Group has announced its new concept and commitment to become Lifetime Carbon Neutral by its 100th anniversary in 2041. This commitment will see the world’s leading roof window manufacturer’s historical carbon footprint – 5.6 million tonnes of CO2 (scope 1 and 2ii) emitted since it was founded in 1941 – captured in forest conservation projects run by WWF (the World Wide Fund for Nature). Looking to the future, the VELUX Group also commits to dramatically cut the carbon emissions of its company and value chain (scope 1, 2 and 3iii) in line with the Paris…

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New AIinPR Ethics Guide: PR needs to be part of AI build-teams as ‘middle-class white coders in Silicon Valley cannot foresee use cases in Blackburn, Baltimore or Bombay’

Stuart Mitchell

The World’s first AI in PR Ethics Guide was published by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)’s AinPR Panel and the Canadian Public Relation Society (CPRS).   Public relations practitioners – as ethical guardians – need a robust understanding of the uses and applications of artificial intelligence. The new guide – ‘Ethics Guide to Artificial Intelligence in PR‘ – argues they should be part of all AI build and deployment teams, posing the tough ethical questions which technology AI specialists and senior management may not consider.   The guide is designed to support…

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COVID-19 set to take $400 billion from global battle against poverty by 2021

Stuart Mitchell

Developing countries will have at least $400 billion less to spend on sustainable development including access to safe water, healthcare and education during this year and next due to the impact of COVID-19, according to a new report from End Water Poverty and WaterAid.    With less than a decade to go to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to eradicate extreme poverty, progress will stall – and in many cases reverse – when faced with the dual crises of COVID-19 and climate change, unless urgent action is taken.   Domestic resources…

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