Day: 9 August 2022

Greggs Launches First Eco-Shop To Trial Sustainable In-Store Initiatives

Stuart Mitchell

Greggs, a leading UK food-on-the-go retailer, announces it has opened its first Eco-Shop, providing a test bed for future in-store sustainability initiatives. New ‘shop of the future’ format will test ideas and technologies aimed at reducing environmental impact of operations The new Eco-Shop, which has opened at Great Billing, Northampton, is a brand new and bespoke format where Greggs will test innovative solutions and initiatives aimed at delivering real progress in reducing the environmental impact of the company’s operations. Successful new ideas and technologies will then be rolled out across…

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bp and thyssenkrupp Steel work together to advance the decarbonisation of steel production

Stuart Mitchell

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition.   thyssenkrupp Steel accounts for 2.5 percent of CO2 emissions in Germany, mainly at the Duisburg site where the main emitters, the blast furnaces, are operated. By replacing the coal-fired blast furnaces with direct reduction plants where iron ore is reduced with low-carbon hydrogen, thyssenkrupp Steel intends to make steel production climate-neutral…

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The Carbon Trust leads consortium taking on collaboration and knowledge sharing across Heat Pump Ready

Stuart Mitchell

Heat pumps are a key solution for decarbonising homes and will be critical for meeting the UK’s commitment to achieve Net Zero by 2050. The Heat Pump Ready Programme, funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP), is designed to support the development and demonstration of heat pump technologies and tools, and the solutions needed to accelerate high-density, cost-effective deployment of heat pumps in domestic housing.  The Carbon Trust, in a consortium with Ipsos and Technopolis, with additional support on technical input and dissemination from a range of organisations, will…

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Uber leaks reveal “easily exploitable” lobbying rules says CIPR

Stuart Mitchell

A report in the Guardian – ‘Osborne, Hancock and other ministers did not declare secret Uber meetings’ – reveal leaked documents that expose the “easily exploitable” lobbying rules in the UK, according to the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). The article shows that meetings with ministers held between 2014 and 2016 were not declared, despite the presence of consultant lobbyists at some of the meetings. The Transparency of Lobbying, non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act (2014) legislates that oral, written or electronic communications sent personally to a Minister…

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Addressing conspiracy theories through education: UNESCO guidance for teachers

Stuart Mitchell

Conspiracy theories thrive in troubled times with serious real-world impacts. In the horrific mass murder recently targeting African-Americans in the U.S. city of Buffalo, the alleged suspect invoked the false “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which purports there is a plot to replace people of European ancestry, driving an international white supremacist narrative founded on racism, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred.   Education can play a central role in building the resilience, knowledge and analytical skills needed to “pre-bunk” and debunk conspiracy theory narratives, including through media and information literacy. To strengthen…

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