Month: January 2022

Hulu, Kiswe Onboard To Stream Portions Of Unprecedented Global Media Initiative By Legendary Producer Tony Hollingsworth – The Listen Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

The Listen Campaign, along with its founder and renowned producer Tony Hollingsworth, announced the addition of Hulu and Kiswe as streaming partners. The Listen Campaign is the annual initiative that galvanizes more than 150 creative artists, brands, media and community of 35 million over a decade to help seed the world with evidence-based solutions of replicable and scalable projects to improve vulnerable and disadvantaged children’s lives. “Powerful streaming platforms Hulu and Kiswe are instrumental to allowing a mass audience to listen to the problems faced by 1 billion vulnerable and…

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University teams win funding from Sodexo for community projects

Stuart Mitchell

Students from 10 universities across the UK have participated in a Dragon’s Den-style competition organised by Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation in partnership with social enterprise and education charity, Enactus UK. The first competition, which ran from January to July 2021, required each team to devise community projects to support Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation’s mission to alleviate hunger, promote good nutrition and improve wellbeing.  The projects needed to have clear aims and objectives which included long-term sustainability and a clear impact on beneficiaries and project reach. Each team was required to…

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Marketers’ Digital Skills Stagnate And Decline During The Pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

New research published by the training body Target Internet, in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), reveals that digital marketing skills have stagnated or declined during the pandemic.  The report finds that unlike many other sectors – which saw digital skills accelerated by the pandemic – the majority of digital marketing skills stagnated or declined between 2020 and 2021. This decline has occurred across almost all sectors, and at all job levels, with skills in Analytics & Data falling the most (-6%), followed by Content Marketing (-4%) and…

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LGT and Climeworks close one of the largest-ever direct air capture agreements – the financial services industry at the forefront of carbon removal

Stuart Mitchell

Recent developments, such as new initiatives launched during COP26 or the release of the new SBTi Net Zero Standard, prove that high-quality carbon removal must be an essential component of net zero roadmaps in addition to emissions reduction efforts. LGT, the world’s largest family-owned private banking and asset management group, has just signed a ten-year carbon removal agreement with Climeworks to remove 9’000 tons of CO₂ from the air – the largest-ever direct air capture agreement signed by a bank. LGT’s purchase is the third ten-year agreement for Climeworks within…

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Nest and UBS Asset Management call time on unresponsive energy companies

Stuart Mitchell

The pensions scheme Nest and UBS Asset Management (UBS AM) have sent a clear signal they expect companies to engage with shareholders around climate change, particularly energy companies which have an important role in the transition to the low carbon economy. Due to lack of progress in managing climate change risk, UBS AM removed (divested) its holdings in five energy companies: Exxon Mobil, Imperial Oil, Kepco, Marathon Oil and Power Assets. UBS AM has applied these exclusions across its suite of Climate Aware funds, including the one it manages for…

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