Month: August 2023

Ocean Outdoor’s 2023 digital creative competition opens with a £500,000 prize fund

Stuart Mitchell

Entries are now invited for Ocean’s annual digital creative competition which fosters bold, original ideas in premium digital out of home (DOOH). This year a £500,000 prize fund is available for six winning concepts which will be chosen by a panel of independent expert judges drawn from across the industry. Previous winners over the past 14 years have gone on to win six prestigious Cannes Lions. There are two free to enter award categories – one for brands and a second for charities. Agencies, brands and creatives are invited to…

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UK companies making “positive steps” on diversity, but new study finds that gender parity has stalled and age, sexual orientation and socio-economic status are lagging

Stuart Mitchell

A new study has found that many of the UK’s largest companies have increased their focus on diversity and inclusion, but factors such as age, socio-economic status and sexual orientation are still lagging behind, and progress has stalled on gender parity. Companies including Alfa, Barclays, Britvic, Havas, KPMG, Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions, Pfizer, Royal Mail, Xpert HR, Verizon, and Yahoo took part in The DIAL Global Diversity Review 2023 – an annual study of diversity, inclusion, belonging and equity (DIBE) in large UK companies. The report highlighted positive progress in…

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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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