Day: 30 November 2023

Ethical Marketing Podcast – 12 – Stuart talks to Jamie Barnard, CEO of Compliant

Stuart Mitchell

Welcome to our latest podcast , in this episode Stuart chats to Jamie Barnard, CEO of Compliant, a SaaS technology company that helps advertisers, agencies and publishers simplify data compliance across the media supply chain. About our guest: Jamie plays a key role in the vanguard shaping emerging regulations that impact performance marketing and digital innovation.  He is one of the industry’s most vocal advocates for responsible media, and is recognised internationally as an expert in law, privacy and public policy.   Jamie is a popular speaker on the global…

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IRENA Global Atlas Upgrade Enhances Understanding of Countries’ Renewables Potential

Stuart Mitchell

Since its inception ten years ago, the IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy has been the hub for open-source renewable resource assessment and data sharing. The new version 4.1 marks a significant milestone with substantial upgrade in capabilities and functionalities. Building upon its previous version 4.0, the Global Atlas 4.1 enhances users’ experience with a more diverse and comprehensive range of datasets, which resulted from a strong collaboration within the resource data and assessment community. The new version offers historical meteorological reanalysis data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…

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Public donations to UK charities were down £4.4bn in first year of pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

UK charities suffered a dramatic drop in donations at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, prompting the sector’s first income decline since 2012, new research shows. The new UK Civil Society Almanac 2023 from the National Council for Voluntary Organisation (NCVO) looks at the financial year 2020/21, which began shortly after the UK’s first national lockdown. The sector’s income for the year dropped by 3% to £56.9bn, of which 46% (£26.4bn) came from public donations. In 2019/20, public donations had been £4.4bn higher. For 2020/21, the next largest source of…

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Octopus Energy signs up to Armed Forces Covenant

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Energy Group has signed the Armed Forces Covenant and received the Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. The award recognises Octopus for being friendly to the armed forces and open to employing reservists and veterans who may be wounded, injured or sick. Octopus founder Greg Jackson today showed Vice Admiral Andy Kyte, Chief of Defence Logistics and Support, around Octopus’s HQ in London to meet team members who served in the armed forces or had partners who served. The energy supplier has jobs available for military veterans…

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M&S Food launches the first 100% paper, plastic-free and easily recyclable takeaway coffee cup on the high street

Stuart Mitchell

M&S Food has launched a new paper fibre coffee cup becoming the first major high street coffee retailer to offer its delicious coffee and all hot drinks in 100% paper, plastic-free and easily recyclable coffee cups and lids for customers. The brand new and exclusive cup is new to market and available from today across twenty sites including M&S Cafés, vended coffee points, Marketplaces within its Foodhalls such as Stratford City, London, Leeds White Rose and Cheshunt, and will be rolling out to every M&S Café in the coming months.…

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