Six Lion-winning charities to receive donations from the Cannes Lions Sustainable Development Goals Lions 

LIONS has announced that all funds generated from the 2020/2021 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Lions will be donated to the six charities who won an SDG last year. Each charity will receive an equal percentage of the €271,488 generated by the award, which last year received 736 entries.  Philip Thomas, Chairman, LIONS, said: “The SDG Lions were launched in partnership with the United Nations, with a clear goal of highlighting how creativity can address the significant challenges of communicating the importance of the Goals, and engaging the world with their…

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CWU Launches New National Anti-Domestic Abuse Partnership with NCDV

Effective immediately, Britain’s 200,000 member-strong Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced the launch of a new working partnership with leading domestic abuse legal protection organisation, NCDV. The partnership was formally initiated by the unanimous carriage of Motion 13A at the Union’s Annual Conference 2022 in Bournemouth on Sunday 24th April 2022. NCDV (National Centre for Domestic Violence) is a 70-strong not-for-profit, community interest company, based in Guildford, which helps victims and survivors of domestic abuse access rapid legal protection, principally in the shape of Non Molestation and other Court Orders.…

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OCBC Bank And Metaverse Green Exchange To Develop New Green Financing Solutions With Tokenised Carbon Credits 

OCBC Bank and MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a digital green exchange licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, have announced a strategic partnership to develop new green financing solutions aimed at accelerating large corporates’ journey to carbon neutrality.  Scheduled to be launched later this year, these financing solutions will include tokenised carbon credits in the form of MVGX’s Carbon Neutrality Tokens (CNT™s), for large corporates to offset their carbon emissions, simplifying their path to carbon neutrality. An independent party will verify the expected carbon emissions from projects utilising these financing solutions,…

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Corporations Unite to Mobilize Supply Chains

Guidehouse, a leading global provider of strategic consulting services, today announced the addition of nine global brands to the Supplier Leadership on Climate Transition (Supplier LoCT), a consortium created to accelerate action throughout the supply chain in the march toward net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Established in April 2021, Supplier LoCT has gained significant momentum in the past year expanding its business leadership from three founding members – Mars, Incorporated, PepsiCo, and McCormick & Company – to 12 corporations with the addition of Atlantic Packaging, The Coca-Cola Company, The Estée…

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Kimberly-Clark Announces Partnership With the Arbor Day Foundation to Plant 1.5 Million Trees by 2030

Kimberly-Clark has committed to planting 1.5 million new trees through 2030 with the Arbor Day Foundation as part of a new partnership. With a shared goal of supporting the world’s forests, the trees will be planted in U.S. and Canadian forests of greatest need. As a kickoff to the partnership and in celebration of Kimberly-Clark’s 150th anniversary and the 150th Arbor Day celebration, Kimberly-Clark and the Arbor Day Foundation will plant one tree for each Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook post during the week of April 22-29 that uses #ArborDay, up…

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