The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development and Vodafone urge action to connect 3.4bn people with smartphones by 2030

A major new initiative has been launched by Vodafone Group Plc and ITU, the United Nations’ specialised agency for information and communication technologies, to address the global digital divide, with the aim that an additional 3.4 billion people could have the ability to access and use the internet through a smartphone by 2030. With mobile broadband (4G) networks now covering 82% of the population of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), the mobile usage gap is 6x larger than the mobile coverage gap.2 In line with the Broadband Commission Global Targets…

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Global businesses including Coca-Cola, GSK, & Unilever, pledge to mentor over 600 LGBTQ refugees in the UK

The Tent Partnership for Refugees, a network of over 180 major companies committed to refugees’ economic integration, today launched a mentorship initiative for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) refugees in the UK. Announced at a virtual summit, the event was co-hosted by Stonewall, Europe’s leading LGBTQ equality organization, to mobilize the business community to better prepare LGBTQ refugees to enter the UK workforce. Nineteen major companies in the UK — spanning sectors from financial services, to consumer goods and professional services — have today joined the initiative, announcing…

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One simple message on pack could drive up recycling rates

Recycle Now, the citizen campaign delivered by environmental charity WRAP, believes trials it conducted with Boots and Radox using on-pack messaging to encourage recycling could drive up plastic recycling in millions of households, and help nudge up the UK’s flagging recycling rate. From trials undertaken with both retailer and manufacturer using plastic bathroom bottles, Recycle Now found that the addition of a simply worded prompt to recycle on front of bottle resulted in a significant rise in recycling. This showed a 91% recycling rate for those who received a bottle with…

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FareShare set to receive food from Waitrose distribution centres

The UK’s biggest food charity, FareShare, is set to receive surplus food from two Waitrose distribution centres to help feed people in need across the UK and to help reduce food waste. “In addition to our commitment to help UK households half food waste by 2030, we also continue to research and find innovative new ways to reduce food waste across our own operations. By linking up our largest distribution centres with FareShare’s network, over time we will be able to prevent millions of items of good to eat food…

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En+ Group Sustainability Report Sets Stretching New Targets

En+ Group, the world’s largest producer of low carbon aluminium, has published its 2020 Sustainability Report. The report, which is available on our website at https://enplusgroup.com/en/sustainability/sustainability-report/, details achievements over the 12 months to 31 December 2020, tracks progress of ongoing initiatives and programmes, and sets out our significant short-term sustainability targets and long-term ambitions. In addition to restating En+ Group’s ongoing commitment to continuous ESG performance improvement, the report also outlines two industry leading developments announced in early 2021: the development of the world’s lowest carbon aluminium from inert anode…

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