Alliance Data Releases 2020 ESG Performance Report; Provides Update on Three-Year Sustainability Goals

 Alliance Data Systems Corporation a leading global provider of data-driven marketing, loyalty and payment solutions, today released its 2020 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Performance Report. The report showcases progress the Company made against three-year sustainability goals set in 2017, and key findings from its second stakeholder perception survey, or materiality assessment, which will guide the next phase of Alliance Data’s evolving ESG strategy. “Alliance Data continues to take a principled approach to operating as a responsible global organization, and delivering value to our key stakeholders, including shareholders, associates, customers…

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Boardman report “a step in the right direction” but fails to address key transparency concerns

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has rejected the conclusion of the Boardman Review that requiring everyone seeking to influence public policy to place themselves on a register would be an undue burden. The report says this “may have the have the result of silencing those who would wish occasionally to contribute to a public debate, but are concerned that it might require them to register”. The second part of the Boardman review into the UK’s lobbying regulations – commissioned by the Prime Minister and published yesterday evening – calls for former…

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PRCA Climate Misinformation Strategy Group welcomes CMA’s Green Code

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) Climate Misinformation Strategy Group has welcomed the Competition and Markets Authority’s new Green Claims Code, designed to help organisations remain legally compliant when making environmental claims.  The Code – which is particularly relevant to communications professionals – requires all environmental claims to be truthful, unambiguous, and transparent. It also compels organisations to include all relevant information relating to a claim. The Code has been developed in response to increasing consumer demand for products and services that protect the environment. PRCA Climate Misinformation Strategy…

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UN Women unveils new feminist roadmap for economic recovery and transformation

UN Women have published a feminist plan for economic recovery and transformation learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and previous crises: “Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice.” As the world faces the choice between doubling down on the mistakes of the past or seizing the opportunity to do things differently, in the first UN plan of its kind, the new flagship report draws on the latest data, analysis and input from more than 100 global experts to provide a vision and concrete pathways for putting gender equality,…

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British Library and the National Trust announce new partnership to uncover hidden links between collections

The British Library and the National Trust have announced a new partnership to increase public knowledge about how their collections have intertwined through the centuries. The partnership launches initially with two new doctoral fellowships set up to uncover lost connections between the Library’s collections and National Trust properties. More broadly, it is an opportunity for both organisations to develop a new strand of collaboration, working together on areas of strategic importance and engaging the public with how their collections connect with each other in unexpected ways. Research themes for the…

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