Day: 20 October 2022

UK travellers remove 1.75m bottles from the ocean by donating to environmental causes through Currensea  

Stuart Mitchell

Charity donations from UK travellers using a money-saving travel card have removed 1.75m plastic bottles from the ocean since 2020. Travellers using the Currensea card, a card that links to existing bank accounts and offers the lowest foreign exchange (FX) fees, can opt to support environmental causes by donating some or all of the savings they make on FX fees when using the card overseas.    Currensea users have also contributed to almost 120,000 trees being planted by donating savings made when using the card.   Working alongside Plastic Bank and Eden…

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Hackers Tackle Water Crisis at Europe’s Biggest Hackathon

Stuart Mitchell

Global water technology company, Xylem, has awarded a team of hackathon participants who developed an innovative app to promote sustainable water consumption. Team WatApp won HackZurich 2022’s Xylem Water Challenge with their social gaming app that helps people make smart water choices in their everyday lives, build long-term water-saving habits, and share their results with friends. Having sponsored the event for the last two years, Xylem continues to challenge teams to solve global water issues with a unique, digital approach. This year, Xylem asked hackathon participants to develop a multi-faceted…

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Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance Progress Report demonstrates advance on decarbonisation targets

Stuart Mitchell

As New York Climate Week gathers momentum, the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance launches its second-ever Progress Report, showing significant membership growth matched by credible intermediate decarbonisation targets. On the Alliance’s third anniversary, the membership stands at six times what it was during its formation in 2019. Now counting 74 institutional investors, the Alliance represents over US$10.6 trillion in assets under management (AUM). According to the Alliance’s Commitment, members have 12 months after joining to publish intermediate targets. This year, 44 members are setting short-term targets, meaning two-thirds of the Alliance’s…

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Grayling CEO Sarah Scholefield appointed PRCA Chair for 2022-2024

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has announced Grayling’s Global CEO Sarah Scholefield MPRCA as its 2022-2024 Chair. Scholefield – whose appointment was confirmed at the Association’s recent AGM – succeeds Rachel Friend MPRCA. Scholefield has been at Grayling for over eight years, having joined in 2014 to lead the strategic direction, coordination, corporate and crisis work for PayPal globally. She was later promoted to CEO of UK and Ireland and is now Global CEO of Grayling and CEO of Accordience – the communications group of agencies. Francis Ingham…

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Average charity donation of £20 a month will be ‘worth less than £15 by 2024’, study finds

Stuart Mitchell

Monthly charity donations of £20 started in 2017 will be worth just £14.90 by 2024 due to inflation, according to projections.  New analysis by Pro Bono Economics (PBE) and the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) also estimates that the £5.7 billion of total donations made to charities in the first six months of 2022 will be worth £500 million less by the end of the year, a reduction of 8.5%.  The falling value of donations due to inflation, which is forecast by the Bank of England to peak at 13% later…

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