Month: February 2021

VF Corporation Partners With Pattrn® to Launch New “Sustainable Solutions” Digital Media Series

Stuart Mitchell

VF Corporation, one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies, has announced that it has partnered with Pattrn®, sister brand to The Weather Channel, to launch a new digital media series that highlights the company’s innovative solutions to address climate change. The new series  launched February 9, 2021, on all Pattrn social media channels.  The five-part series showcases the pioneering work happening across VF and its family of brands, including the Vans®, The North Face® and Icebreaker® brands, and covers topics such as the importance of traceability and transparency in global supply chains, sustainable packaging,…

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Science Based Targets initiative validates Ferrero’s climate goals

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of the five-year anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement on December 12, Ferrero announced that the independent Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has validated Ferrero’s climate goals, which the company released earlier this year: By 2030, Ferrero aims to halve all emissions from its owned operations (Scope 1 and 2) and commits to reducing emissions by 43% for each tonne of product produced across all scopes. Both targets use 2018 as a base year. The SBTi has also approved that Ferrero’s target on reducing emissions from its owned…

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The great diversity divide: Rest of the UK lags significantly behind London workplaces on making diversity & inclusion a priority

Stuart Mitchell

New research from networking group People Like Us and Censuswide explores the impact the Black Lives Matter movement has had on the UK workforce. The research reveals a divided national response to the protests with two-thirds (67%) of London professionals saying that they feel Diversity & inclusion (D&I) are a higher priority for their company since the movement came into the spotlight in 2020; however, this falls to well under a third of workers outside London. Over a third (35%) of the workforce agree that the momentum of diversity has…

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Gold Series from Pantene teams up with Black Minds Matter and Project Embrace in campaign to end discrimination against Afro hair in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

A new study released by Pantene reveals the discrimination against Afro hair in the UK is widespread, with at least 93% of Black people with Afro hair having experienced microaggressions related to their hair. Of those surveyed, nearly half (46%) reported the type of microaggression they had experienced was uninvited hair touching, while only 7% of people without Afro hair were able to identify common microaggressions. The Gold Series from Pantene ‘My Hair Won’t Be Silenced’ campaign aims to increase awareness of hair discrimination and common microaggressions in the UK to…

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£84 million green aviation technology boost

Stuart Mitchell

Three pioneering projects have been supported to power zero-emissions flights and unlock up to 4,750 jobs across the UK. They will use alternative energy sources of hydrogen or electricity to reduce the aerospace industry’s reliance on polluting fossil fuels. They have been supported with £84.6 million of funding through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) programme. Winners were selected by: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ATI Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Funded projects The three projects receiving funding are: GKN Aerospace-led project H2GEAR will receive…

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