Day: 14 August 2022

Cheetos® And Bad Bunny To Help Fans Leave Their Mark In U.S. Hispanic Communities With Launch Of $500,000 Deja tu Huella Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Cheetos and global recording artist Bad Bunny are at it again: teaming up for the third consecutive year to support Hispanic communities across the U.S. and Puerto Rico through the Deja tu Huella (Leave Your Mark) campaign. Since 2020, the Deja tu Huella campaign has recognized Hispanic communities and called on fans to leave their mark on all they do. This year, the Deja tu Huella notion will be brought to life with the launch of the $500,000 Deja tu Huella Fund. Cheetos and Bad Bunny kicked off year three…

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Greenhouse gas emissions vary dramatically across U.S. oil and gas companies, according to updated analysis

Stuart Mitchell

Analysis from Ceres and Clean Air Task Force benchmarking the relative emissions intensity and total reported methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide emissions of more than 300 U.S. oil and gas producers finds dramatic variations between companies and basins. In the second year of this analysis, the highest emitting oil and gas companies had a methane emissions intensity nearly 24 times that of the lowest emitting companies according to the most recently available data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  The second annual report, Benchmarking Methane and other GHG Emissions of…

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INTOG offshore wind leasing opens, aiming to encourage innovation and decarbonise North Sea

Stuart Mitchell

Crown Estate Scotland – the body which manages seabed leasing for offshore renewables – has recently, 10 August, opened the Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) offshore wind leasing process. A two-week registration window opens today, followed later this month by the opening of the application window.  This pioneering leasing round will help meet the emissions reduction targets agreed last year between government and industry in the North Sea Transition Deal and will help position offshore wind as a primary feature of the energy transition.  Offshore wind developers are…

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70% of 10-Year-Olds now in Learning Poverty, Unable to Read and Understand a Simple Text

Stuart Mitchell

As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70% of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written text, according to a new report published by the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, UK government Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), USAID, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This rate was 57% before the pandemic, but now the learning crisis has deepened. This generation of students now risks losing $21 trillion…

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CAP – A tasty reminder about the rules for HFSS product ads

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: A tasty reminder about the rules for HFSS product ads. 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. In May 2022, we reminded the industry that despite the Government delaying its new restrictions on the advertising of ‘less healthy’ food and soft drink products, there were still plenty of significant protective measures set out in the CAP and…

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