Day: 6 September 2023

Alibaba: Seven in Ten Consumers Are Willing To Make Changes To Tackle Environmental Issues

Stuart Mitchell

A vast majority (73%) of consumers want to live more sustainable lifestyles, particularly among those living in emerging Asian markets (87%), but inconvenience and high costs are cited as main stumbling blocks to the adoption of sustainable lifestyles, finds the latest independent research commissioned by Alibaba Group. The research, titled “The Sustainability Trends Report 2023”, polled more than 14,000 consumers from 14 markets across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It finds that convenience (53%) and affordability (33%) are critical for driving behavioral changes on consumer sustainability and businesses can…

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World’s Largest Asset Managers Far Off Track to Meet Own 2050 Net Zero Commitments

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s largest asset managers are far off track to meet their own 2050 net zero commitments, according to a new study released by FinanceMap recently. The analysis finds that the world’s largest asset managers have not improved their climate performance over the past two years and in some cases have reversed positive trends, despite most having set net zero by 2050 targets through initiatives such as the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM). FinanceMap’s Asset Managers and Climate Change 2023 report scores 45 of the largest asset management companies based…

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JustGiving to revolutionise fundraising with the integration of Generative AI

Stuart Mitchell

JustGiving is set to become the first UK leading fundraising platform to offer generative AI technology to help people create compelling fundraising pages in a matter of seconds. This groundbreaking development is expected to benefit more than 20,000 charities by enabling fundraisers to quickly and easily create and share their personal stories. On JustGiving, more than 850,000 fundraising pages were created last year and of these, around one third (35%) of fundraisers chose to use the platform’s pre-written content instead of writing their own individual stories. Research conducted by JustGiving…

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New roadmap launches long-term effort to make $125 billion sector sustainable

Stuart Mitchell

Members of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) taskforce have unveiled a roadmap to scale up biodegradable alternatives to polymers in liquid formulations (PLFs) while improving circular infrastructure. Below is the announcement from their website: Millions of everyday household products could be made more sustainable in just seven years as we launch our roadmap to make key ingredients biodegradable. A new report, The PLFs Revolution: Our 2040 roadmap for sustainable polymers in liquid formulations, provides a blueprint for how we can achieve the industry-wide change needed to make polymers in liquid…

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New hospital laundry system could help phase out single-use PPE

Stuart Mitchell

Circular economy experts have made it easier for hospitals to use reusable forms of PPE with the development of a new ‘modular laundry system’. St Michael’s Hospital in Hayle, Cornwall, is the first to process its reusable facemasks, surgical gowns, operating theatre drapes and other PPE items through the new laundry system, which is located in the Newham business district in Truro. It was developed by sustainable medical textiles firm Revolution-Zero led by Dr Tom Dawson, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Business School, and funded through…

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