Month: January 2024

Export credit agencies supporting billions in global trade form net-zero alliance

Stuart Mitchell

Eight leading export credit agencies, in partnership with the Innovation and Knowledge Hub at the University of Oxford, Future of Climate Cooperation, and the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) recently launched the UN-convened Net-Zero Export Credit Agencies Alliance (NZECA), the first net-zero alliance comprising public finance institutions globally. In working to deliver net-zero economies by 2050, the NZECA will help decarbonise global trade and facilitate joint action from public and private finance.  The five founding members, together with the three affiliate members, come from geographically diverse regions including…

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Sylvera partners with the Singapore government and opens regional hub

Stuart Mitchell

Sylvera, a leading carbon data provider, is working with the Singapore Government to facilitate high-quality carbon credits to be used towards its goals under the Paris Agreement. The news comes as the company opens an office in Singapore to support its growth in the market and the region’s thriving carbon trading ecosystem.  Despite being agreed since 2015, most countries signed onto the Paris Agreement are not on track to meet their goals eight years later. Purchasing carbon credits, which fund projects around the world like protecting rainforests from deforestation, is…

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New Report Highlights Decarbonisation Progress Of Global Cement Industry

Stuart Mitchell

The extensive work being carried out by the world’s cement and concrete industry and its leading industry body, the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), to cut CO₂ emissions, is set out in a newly published report, launched at CO28 in Dubai. Development of carbon capture and storage, increasing use of alternative energy and the adoption of new materials and technology, are among the levers being used to cut emissions. Concrete is the second most used substance on earth after water and vital for much of our modern infrastructure. In…

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Child Accident Prevention Trust win national Hero Award for child saving campaigns

Stuart Mitchell

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) has received the Product Safety Award at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) annual Hero Awards ceremony which celebrates outstanding achievements in consumer protection in the UK. The Hero Awards were hosted on 22 November by CTSI and Yvonne Fovargue MP in the House of Commons and recognised individuals and groups that have done outstanding work this year to protect consumers and support honest businesses. CAPT engages in a range of campaigns to raise awareness around child safety. Their button battery project resulted in…

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Clear Channel Confirmed As The Creative Shootout’s Out Of Home Media Partner

Stuart Mitchell

Clear Channel UK has been confirmed as The Creative Shootout’s 2024 official Out of Home media partner, joining other big names like The Guardian, in supporting the UK’s leading done in a day creative-for-good awards, with £100,000 of media inventory.   Clear Channel, one of the UK’s largest Out of Home media and infrastructure companies, will offer the inventory prize for this year’s winning campaign, that will be staged by the winning agency for Charity of the Year, Carers UK, later in 2024. The partnership will see the winning campaign from…

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