Day: 2 February 2024

Independent Age launches £2.8m grants fund to boost advice services for older people in priority areas across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

National charity Independent Age has launched a £2.8 million grants fund to help advice-based organisations reach and support more older people. The funding will be allocated to organisations in a number of areas of higher deprivation where a significant number of older people live.    England •        Bradford •        Liverpool & Knowsley •        London – the boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney •        West Midlands – specifically the areas of Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton Scotland •        Fife •        Glasgow City •        South Lanarkshire •        North Lanarkshire Wales •        Cardiff and…

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Global forum closes with over $2.2bn in pledges to improve lives of refugees and hosts

Stuart Mitchell

The second Global Refugee Forum (GRF), which brought the international community together in solidarity, closed after three days with a range of pledges to improve the lives of the world’s refugees and the countries and communities that host them. The Forum – co-hosted by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and Switzerland and co-convened by Colombia, France, Japan, Jordan and Uganda – took place from 13-15 December in Geneva, Switzerland. It was attended by over 4,200 participants from 168 countries, including five heads of state or government, ministers, heads of international…

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An emerging green skills gap in the Financial Service sector risks Net Zero goals

Stuart Mitchell

The demand for green finance jobs is on the rise but significant regional disparities exist across the UK. The Aldersgate Group has supported PwC in the development of this new report investigating the green skills gap in the finance sector. The UK financial services sector faces an emerging green skills gap and is not moving fast enough to close it, jeopardising the UK’s Net Zero goals, according to the latest report by PwC in its Green Jobs Barometer series. The report, in collaboration with Financial Services Skills Commission (FSSC) and…

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ING takes next steps on energy financing after COP28

Stuart Mitchell

ING announced in December it is taking the next steps in our energy approach, phasing out the financing of upstream oil and gas activities by 2040 and aiming to triple new financing for renewable energy by 2025. These steps, updating our Terra approach, come after governments at COP28 agreed to transition away from fossil fuels and triple renewable energy capacity. Steven van Rijswijk, CEO of ING said: “Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges. The world needs energy, but still too much of that is coming from fossil…

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New UK levy to level carbon pricing

Stuart Mitchell

The UK is to implement a new import carbon pricing mechanism by 2027 to support the decarbonisation drive. imports of iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics and cement from overseas will face a comparable carbon price to those goods produced in the UK reduces the risk of ‘carbon leakage’, avoiding emissions being displaced to other countries because they have a lower or no carbon price Goods imported into the UK from countries with a lower or no carbon price will have to pay a levy by 2027, ensuring products from overseas face…

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