Day: 9 December 2021

UK industry leaders unite to cut deforestation- and conversion-linked soy from supply chains by 2025

Stuart Mitchell

UK industry leaders from 27 major businesses – all of the biggest UK grocery retailers (including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Iceland), some of the largest meat producers (including Avara Foods, 2 Sisters Food Group, Cranswick, Pilgrim’s UK), and food service companies and brands (such as Danone UK and Ireland, Nestle UK and Ireland, Nando’s, KFC UK and Ireland and McDonald’s UK and Ireland) united in signing the UK Soy Manifesto. This commits them to cutting deforestation and habitat destruction out of UK soy supply chains as…

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The Tesco PLC Pension Scheme and the Tesco Retirement Savings Plan commit to target Net Zero by 2050

Stuart Mitchell

The Tesco Plc Pension Scheme and the Tesco Retirement Savings Plan will aim for the investments in both schemes to be net-zero by no later than 2050. Combined, the two pensions schemes have over 345,000 members and assets of over £24bn. Tesco and the trustees of their pension schemes regularly review these investments to make sure they meet their top priority of helping this money grow as much as possible, while keeping it safe. An important part of being able to do this is to invest responsibly. Ruston Smith Chair…

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‘Bodyright’ campaign launched, to end rise in gender-based violence online

Stuart Mitchell

“It’s time for technology companies and policymakers to take digital violence seriously”, said UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem -“right now”.   The bodyright campaign highlights that corporate logos and copyrighted IP are more highly valued and better protected online than images of human bodies, which are often uploaded to the Internet without consent, and used maliciously.   The ⓑ symbol – which can be added to any image directly via Instagram stories using stickers, or by downloading it from the webpage – aims to hold policymakers, companies, and individuals to account while simultaneously driving the message that women, girls, racial and ethnic minorities, the LGBTQ+ community, and other marginalized groups are valued and will not be violated online.  The new frontier …

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Deutsche Bank launches new Ocean Resilience Philanthropy Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Deutsche Bank has announced the launch of the Deutsche Bank Ocean Resilience Philanthropy Fund, a new global philanthropic fund dedicated to ocean conservation and coastal resilience. This is the first philanthropic fund of its kind set up by a financial institution, giving clients and other stakeholders the opportunity to support ocean conservation efforts though a dedicated framework to facilitate donations. Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of the International Private Bank and CEO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Claudio de Sanctis said, “We are committed to supporting ocean conservation and…

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National campaign launches new PSAs based on real stories that inspire parents to consider adopting teens in foster care

Stuart Mitchell

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), AdoptUSKids, and the Ad Council has launched a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) that encourage prospective parents to adopt teens from foster care. The new PSAs, created pro bono by advertising agency Barbarian, are inspired by true stories of teens adopted from foster care to highlight how rewarding of an experience it is for both parents and teens. “The launch of the new PSAs continues the campaign’s powerful work of sharing true and…

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