Month: January 2022

Vodafone hits 125,000 milestone in its ambition to connect one million people living in digital poverty by the end of 2022

Stuart Mitchell

Vodafone has announced it has connected more than 125,000 people living in digital poverty in the UK. To mark the milestone, radio host and TV presenter Roman Kemp has visited some of the organisations and people impacted to highlight why tackling digital exclusion is so vital. In the UK, 1.5m households, or approximately 6% of the population, are living without internet access. Vodafone has committed to connecting one million people living in digital exclusion by the end of 2022. Vodafone has reached the 125,000 milestone through a range of initiatives,…

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Volunteering charity TimeBank announces closure

Stuart Mitchell

Volunteering charity TimeBank has announced that it will close from January 31, 2022. The charity says that since the pandemic, it has struggled to maintain adequate levels of funding for its volunteer-led mentoring and social action projects. It says recognising this has enabled it to plan for closure in a responsible way, with least impact to its staff, volunteers and beneficiaries. TimeBank chair Stuart Crotaz says: “Charities like ours are the grassroots of civil society. However they have been hit by falling revenues and the shift from grant funding to…

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Morrisons Works with Food and Drink Suppliers to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

Stuart Mitchell

Morrisons is working with its own-brand suppliers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as part of its commitment to lower the amount of carbon emitted in its wider supply chain. Own-brand suppliers will be encouraged to reduce the greenhouse emissions associated with the sourcing, manufacture and transportation of their products. By working together, Morrisons hopes to achieve a 30 per cent reduction in supply chain Scope 3 carbon emissions by 2030. Morrisons will initially offer 400 of its own-brand suppliers access to a new industry-leading software platform called Manufacture 2030. The…

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ArcelorMittal publishes second group climate action report

Stuart Mitchell

ArcelorMittal has published its second group climate action report, following the first group report published in May 2019 and the European climate action report published in May 2020. In the new report, ArcelorMittal has for the first time announced a 2030 global carbon emissions intensity reduction target of 25%. It has also increased its European 2030 carbon emissions intensity reduction target to 35% from 30% previously announced. All targets are on a scope 1 and 2 basis. The Company had previously announced a net zero by 2050 ambition in September…

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EY announces achievement of carbon negative status

Stuart Mitchell

The EY organization has become carbon negative, a major and significant step toward achieving the EY carbon ambition of becoming net zero by 2025. Becoming carbon negative means the EY organization is now reducing its total emissions and offsetting and removing more carbon than it emits. To achieve this carbon ambition, the EY organization has set an aggressive target to significantly reduce its emissions by 40% by 2025 through seven key actions. This represents one of the most ambitious decarbonization plans not just in professional services, but across global industry. …

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