Parcel delivery firm DPD has donated to leading independent conservation organisation WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) to support the charity’s ground-breaking seagrass restoration project – Seagrass Ocean Rescue, a collaboration with Swansea University and Project Seagrass. The Project aims to help restore 15% of seagrass meadows across the UK by 2030, to capture and store hundreds of tonnes of carbon each year and help play a role in the UK reaching its net zero targets. Globally seagrass has been found to be more effective at absorbing and storing carbon…
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Britvic and The Rivers Trust strengthen water stewardship partnership with two wetland restoration projects in Great Britain
Britvic is helping to prevent flooding and restore biodiversity with two new water stewardship projects in partnership with The Rivers Trust. Britvic will be supporting the projects with £125,000 which, over the course of three years, will see experts and volunteers undertake river and wetland restoration near two of Britvic’s factories in Leeds and Beckton. The Chellow Dene and Wanstead Park wetland projects are crucial to improving biodiversity, water quality and mitigating flood risk. Alex Adam, Deputy Director of Strategic Development and Water Stewardship at The Rivers Trust, said: “The…
Read MoreThe SBTi launches the world’s first standard method to cover land-related emissions and removals
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the global body enabling businesses to set emissions reduction targets in line with science, today launches the world’s first standard method for companies to set science-based targets that include land-based emission reductions and removals. The Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) Science Based Target Setting Guidance provides businesses in land-intensive sectors such as food, agriculture and forestry with the tools to play their part in preventing the catastrophic impacts of climate change. This sector represents nearly a quarter (22%) of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,…
Read MoreeasyJet invests in latest aircraft technology to achieve permanent carbon emission reductions across its entire fleet
easyJet has announced a multi-million-pound fleet-wide investment into the latest aircraft software which will help the airline to achieve substantial and permanent carbon emission reductions in the short-term by enabling the optimisation of aircraft descents. The fleet-wide introduction of Descent Profile Optimisation (DPO) alongside the Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) on all compatible aircraft will deliver fuel and therefore carbon reductions, as well as noise reductions for aircraft also equipped with CDA. By this time next year, once the retrofit is completed, easyJet will have the largest fleet of DPO and…
Read MoreDiversity conference champions inclusion change in the workplace
Diversity in Action is back. The diversity conference spearheaded by A Leader Like Me founders Advita Patel and Priya Bates is shaping up to be bigger than ever. This year’s conference features an incredible line-up of speakers who are driving change in organizations across the world. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from industry experts who will share stories, strategies and their own learnings on key topics like leadership, values, trust and inclusion. Ruchika Tulshyan, author of Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging…
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