Month: May 2023

Ceres calls on all investors to follow NYC’s lead in issuing climate action plans

Stuart Mitchell

The New York City Comptroller has laid out a comprehensive plan to achieve its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, recognizing that commitment must be met by action and that the risks to the pension beneficiaries of New York City are too high to delay implementation, according to the sustainability non-profit Ceres.  “Every investor should develop investor climate action plans with concrete steps they’ll take to address climate risks and opportunities. New York City has done so,” said Kirsten Snow Spalding, vice president of the Ceres Investor Network…

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The Estée Lauder Companies Shares “The Beauty of Green Chemistry” to Inspire Sustainability in Product Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has a long history of innovating through the lens of sustainability and is dedicated to inspiring others to do the same. As part of these efforts, ELC previously released its unique green chemistry methodology, which is used throughout the product formulation process to assess and measure the sustainability of ingredients and formulas using green chemistry principles. ELC’s formulators in labs worldwide continue to use this tool to guide innovation for greener alternatives and to assess new product launches across ELC’s in-house portfolio of prestige beauty…

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Goodnites® Announces National Campaign and Partnership with the Autism Society of America to Raise Awareness and Provide Solutions for Bedwetting Needs of Families with Neurodivergent Children

Stuart Mitchell

Goodnites, the #1 bedwetting underwear1 brand, announced a new partnership with the Autism Society of America, America’s largest and oldest grassroots Autism organization, to educate, support, and provide solutions for families of children with Autism who are in need of a longer-term bedwetting solution. Since inventing the absorbent bedwetting underwear category in 1994, Goodnites has been committed to empowering users to have a dry night’s sleep and wake up awesome! Its bedwetting underwear is designed to provide children ages 3 to 17 a dry night’s sleep with 35% fewer leaks2. While…

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First world record for 2024 TCS London Marathon Ballot

Stuart Mitchell

For the first time in history, more than half a million people have applied for a marathon as 578,374 hopefuls from the UK and across the globe enter the ballot for the 2024 TCS London Marathon, setting a new world record. The previous world record total of 457,861 applications was set pre-pandemic in 2019 by applicants for the 2020 London Marathon. The total number of UK applications for 2024 was 457,105, of which 242,119 were applications from men (52.9% of the total), 212,179 from women (46.4% of the total) and…

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Legacy giving up 43% in the past decade

Stuart Mitchell

Remember a Charity’s latest consumer benchmarking study, carried out by independent research firm OKO, shows that legacy giving has risen by 43% over the past decade, with 20% of UK charity supporters aged 40+ now saying they have left a charitable gift in their Will, compared with 14% in 2013. The study* surveys more than 2,000 charity donors aged 40+ to track legacy giving attitudes and behaviour year-on-year, and found that one in five supporters said they had already included a charity in their Will (20%), with just over one…

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