Month: May 2022

edie publishes new business guide on hydrogen for net-zero strategies

Stuart Mitchell

edie has published a new Explains guide, detailing all the key business considerations, challenges and opportunities in integrating hydrogen solutions into existing or impending decarbonisation strategies. Hydrogen is being viewed as a potential solution to carbon-intensive markets, sectors and practices. This new guide explores all the key considerations and how they apply to businesses. Hydrogen can be produced using a variety of measures and sources, namely natural gas, biomass, nuclear, fossil fuels and renewables. As such, it makes it an attractive fuel proposition for industries like electricity generation and transportation.…

Read More

Mastercard expands the Priceless Planet Coalition’s forest restoration effort

Stuart Mitchell

Mastercard is expanding the reforestation work of the Priceless Planet Coalition to include 15 new restoration projects, for a total of 18 globally. These projects will help accelerate progress toward the Coalition’s goal of restoring 100 million trees. Consumer desire to support initiatives that drive positive change for the environment is growing around the world; according to the Mastercard Economics Institute, consumer donations to environmentally focused charities grew 48.4% globally in 2022 when compared to pre-pandemic 2019 levels, overall outpacing donation growth to other organizations. The project portfolio of the…

Read More

Wiped Out! Boots is banning all plastic-based wet wipes

Stuart Mitchell

A large proportion of the 11 billion wet wipes used in the UK every year still contain some form of plastic1 and evidence suggests they are the cause of over nine in ten of the blockages in UK sewers2.* Boots is one of the biggest sellers of wet wipes in the UK with over 140 different lines stocked across skincare, beauty, baby, tissue and health care categories. It is one of the leading sellers of beauty face wipes, representing up to 15% of all face wipes sold across the UK.…

Read More

Mendix and Atos expand global partnership to drive efficient, digital decarbonization across every industry with enterprise low-code

Stuart Mitchell

Mendix, a Siemens business and global leader in enterprise application development, and Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced that they have signed an expanded partnership agreement to empower Atos to leverage the Mendix low-code platform to drive hyper-automation and decarbonization in enterprises. This partnership with Mendix enhances the longstanding, trusted partnership between Atos and Siemens, cementing Atos’ commitment to providing world-class, low-code solutions for global businesses. At launch, the agreement will give Atos the license to sell Mendix low-code platform in multiple regions where Atos has a…

Read More

Unilever and ISS join ILO’s Global Business and Disability Network

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever is the latest enterprise to join the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Global Business and Disability Network  (GBDN). The move follows that of ISS – the Danish facility management services company – which joined the network in March 2022. Thirty-three multinational enterprises are now part of GBDN, which provides peer-to-peer support and exchanges on good corporate disability inclusion practices, worldwide. Network members come from a range of industry sectors and include eight international non-business entities with disability expertise, as well as the International Disability Alliance. By signing the ILO GBDN…

Read More