Day: 26 January 2024

Green job adverts fall by 26%, but are slightly more resilient than other roles in a cooling labour market

Stuart Mitchell

The number of green jobs advertised in the UK has fallen from the record levels recorded in 2022, albeit at a smaller rate than the decline seen in the UK’s job market overall, finds PwC’s latest Green Jobs Barometer.  High interest rates and a challenging economic backdrop have seen the number of total advertised roles fall by 29%, while the number of green jobs fell by 26%. This degree of resilience of green jobs has seen their share of the UK labour market increase to 2.3% (up from 2.2% in…

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Global annual finance flows of $7 trillion fueling climate, biodiversity, and land degradation crises

Stuart Mitchell

Close to $7 trillion is invested globally each year in activities that have a direct negative impact on nature from both public and private sector sources – equivalent to roughly 7 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – according to the latest State of Finance for Nature report released today at COP28 by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners. The report finds that in 2022, investments in nature-based solutions totaled approximately $200 billion, but finance flows to activities directly harming nature were more than 30 times larger.…

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Cannes Lions announces seven nonprofits have received donations through the Sustainable Development Goals Lions’ entry fees

Stuart Mitchell

Cannes Lions has announced that the entry fees from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Lions 2023, totaling €267,065, have been donated to seven Lion-winning charities, including a donation made in memory of Dan Wieden to Caldera Arts, the arts and environmental charity he founded with his family.  Launched in 2018, in partnership with the United Nations, the SDG Lions celebrate creative work that actively supports the advancement of the Goals. Each Lion-winning nonprofit actively supports these ambitions, and the donations made through award entries go towards supporting vital projects worldwide,…

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Cynicism from within tarnishes UK plc ESG efforts

Stuart Mitchell

Cynicism about UK businesses and their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives runs deep amongst employees. Research finds that there is a deep disconnect between what companies do and how they communicate progress, leaving many employees unconvinced.   One in three believe that their organisation is ‘all talk and no action’ when it comes to environmental (32%) and social initiatives (37%)  Two in five (43%) describe their employer’s environmental efforts as nothing more than a tick-box exercise with 37% saying the same about social diversity and inclusion programmes  One in four (22%) think…

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Episode 16 of CIPR’s Engage Podcast out now; PR in the Age of AI

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ (CIPR) Engage podcast returns with a new episode reflecting on artificial intelligence’s origins and its impact on the future of public relations.  Episode 16 – PR in the Age of AI – comes one year after the launch of ChatGPT. Host Andrew Bruce Smith, marks the natural language processing tool’s first birthday by looking at the unprecedented technological advances in AI and examining how future developments will impact PR’s landscape.  This episode explores both the practical and ethical aspects PR and comms teams have to…

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