Month: June 2022

Triodos Bank to optimise its structure to further increase positive impact

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank has announced its intention to optimise its resources and deliver increased impact for the bank’s customers and investors. Jeroen Rijpkema, Chief Executive Officer of Triodos Bank: “Triodos Bank started as a small bank with the mission to use money for positive change. In the past 42 years, we have grown into a medium-sized bank active in five European countries. While our mission to create positive impact remained unchanged, the financial landscape has changed and requires us to evolve with it. To remain a frontrunner in sustainable finance, we…

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Greenpeace, The Women’s Institute and The Muslim Council of Britain join a global coalition to demand the five top plastic polluters switch to reusable packaging for World Refill Day

Stuart Mitchell

A coalition of over 400 global organisations, including Greenpeace, The Women’s Institute and The Muslim Council of Britain have joined forces on World Refill Day to demand that the five companies named as the biggest plastic polluters commit to tackling plastic pollution through ‘transparent, ambitious and accountable reuse and refill systems’ in an open letter. The letter coordinated by environmental not-for-profit City to Sea, calls on the 5 biggest plastic polluters; Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle, Unilever, and Procter & Gamble to tackle their plastic pollution impact by switching from single-use to affordable and accessible refillable and reusable packaging. In the…

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ASA – Keeping Food Advertising Standards High

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Keeping Food Advertising Standards High. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. News that government will delay until 2024 restrictions on the advertising of ‘less healthy’ food and soft drink products won’t leave a vacuum of regulation. Very far from it – the UK has longstanding, strict rules controlling their media placement, audience targeting and creative content…

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Kuehne + Nagel Partners With IAG Cargo To Reduce Its Supply Chain Emissions Through Use Of 8 Million Litres Of First UK Produced Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Stuart Mitchell

Kuehne+Nagel to reduce emissions by purchasing eight million litres of sustainable aviation fuel. The delivery will be over 2022 and will remove approximately 18,300 tonnes of CO2, which is the equivalent of 150 British Airways flights between London and New York. The SAF, manufactured from sustainable waste feedstocks, will be sourced from Phillips 66 Limited’s Humber Refinery in Lincolnshire, England – the first to produce SAF at scale in the UK. IAG was the first European airline group to commit to 10% of its fuel to be SAF by 2030.…

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GSK’s Voltarol partners with Channel 4 and GAY TIMES for ‘More Than Movement’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Voltarol has announced the launch of its new campaign ‘More than Movement’ to promote the brand in partnership with Channel 4 and GAY TIMES. Brokered by Publicis Media’s platformGSK and Publicis Media Content, the partnership will feature a bespoke film, commissioned by Channel 4 and produced by GAY TIMES. Voltarol and Publicis Media are now in the third year of their partnership with GAY TIMES. The addition of Channel 4 signals a continued determination to increase the positive diversity and representation of the LGBTQ+ community, and other diverse audiences, in…

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