Day: 15 August 2023

Zero Carbon Forum to launch Marketplace, a new directory to connect and showcase innovative sustainable suppliers to hospitality and brewing operators

Stuart Mitchell

Zero Carbon Forum is set to launch Marketplace, a ‘first of its kind’ new services directory designed to connect innovative supply chain businesses with brewing and hospitality operators to help them reach net zero faster.    Marketplace is open for applications and will provide a ‘one stop shop’ for hospitality and brewing operators to source the essential products and services they need to help radically reduce their carbon emissions. The new platform will feature a product and services directory to allow users to segment by the most relevant emissions area such…

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bp expands investment in bioenergy, collaborating with US biofuels developer WasteFuel

Stuart Mitchell

bp expanded its investment in bioenergy today as bp ventures committed $10 million, leading the Series B investment round, in WasteFuel, a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels, such as bio-methanol.  Globally, solid waste production totals about 2 billion metric tons annually and is expected to increase to 3.4 billion metric tons by 20501.  WasteFuel’s deployment of anaerobic digestion and methanol production technologies will convert municipal and agricultural waste into viable lower emission alternatives to traditional…

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13 million people enjoy better social protection through improved financing

Stuart Mitchell

Thirteen million people in 24 countries have benefited from increased access to improved social protection systems through an innovative programme on sustainable financing. Sustainably financing social protection systems covers the way that governments mobilize, allocate and manage public resources to ensure they are viable in the long run. The programme, on Improving synergies between social protection and public finance management  (SP&PFM), aims to strengthen the design and financing of national social protection systems and so improve the lives of millions of women, men and children. The programme – funded by…

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CAP – Make the grade with your back-to-school campaigns

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Make the grade with your back-to-school campaigns. 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. The back-to-school season is big business, prompting a flurry of spending as parents and carers stock up on school uniforms, lunch boxes and stationery supplies.  This, of course, presents the perfect opportunity for advertisers to run a number of different promotions. The…

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IPA Summer Honours List recognises 11 ad industry greats

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA is celebrating 11 outstanding individuals for their instrumental work in accelerating the success of the ad agency business in its annual Summer Honours List. Representing some of adland’s best and brightest, they will be bestowed an IPA Fellowship (FIPA) or Honorary Fellowship (Hon. FIPA) – for individuals not with an IPA member agency – for their outstanding careers, through which they have driven the industry forward, working with the IPA across everything from effectiveness and media to talent and diversity. 2023 IPA Summer Honours List Receiving a Fellowship or…

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