Lendlease on the road to absolute zero carbon

Lendlease has announced plans to eliminate the use of diesel on its construction sites in Europe and ensure that all the electricity the company procures is from clean renewable sources. The international property and investments group has set itself challenging environmental targets, including a commitment to becoming a 1.5°C aligned company and achieving Absolute Zero Carbon by 2040. The company released its Roadmap to Absolute Zero Carbon, which sets out how the business will achieve those targets in Europe. Sustainability has always been at the heart of Lendlease’s approach to…

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Tesco launches first sustainability-linked bond of €750m

Tesco has launched a bond that, for the first time, is linked to the Company’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Tesco was the first business globally to set a zero-carbon goal in 2009 and later the first FTSE 100 Company to set science-based carbon reduction targets on a 1.5-degree trajectory. The launch of our first sustainability-linked bond further demonstrates the strength of our commitment to reduce our impact on the environment and become a net zero carbon business in the UK by 2035. The €750m bond with a 0.375%…

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Amazon Teams Up with Pharrell Williams’ YELLOW and Georgia Tech to Launch New Music Remix Competition to Inspire Students to Pursue Computer Science

Amazon, Pharrell Williams’ education equity nonprofit YELLOW, and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a new educational collaboration called “Your Voice is Power” to encourage middle and high school students to share their voice on equity while learning to code new music remixes. The “Your Voice is Power” collaboration includes five teaching modules with lesson plans that teach coding while kick-starting meaningful conversations among students and their teachers about the importance of racial justice. This collaboration concludes with a competition for students to share their own voices through remixing Pharrell’s…

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Amnesty and FA launch guide for increasing refugee women’s participation in football

Amnesty International UK, in partnership with the English Football Association, have launched a free guide and online training series which aims to increase refugee women’s participation in grassroots football. The guide will help coaches, clubs and their foundations, county FAs, and others to set up football sessions with and for refugee women and girls in their community. A number of football clubs across the country currently run free weekly football sessions with refugees to support fitness, help people feel part of the local community and reduce social isolation. But these sessions are often targeted at men and…

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Asda to provide 7,000 Dell laptops to help schools tackle digital exclusion

Asda has announced that it is working with Dell Technologies to provide 7,000 laptops to schools across the UK to help those children who are at risk of falling behind in their education because they do not have the technology to take part in online lessons during lockdown. The supermarket has formed a partnership with technology provider Dell and is investing £2.0m so that every Asda store in the UK can donate at least 10 laptops to a school in need in their local community. Each laptop comes with a…

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