Day: 19 February 2024

Fairtrade Impact Map: delivering greater impact for farmers, workers, businesses and consumers

Stuart Mitchell

Fairtrade International recently unveiled an updated and revamped digital mapping platform. Intended as a tool for advocacy, for communicating and engaging with commercial partners, as well as for internal Fairtrade learning, the Impact Map represents a major step forward for transparency and openness around both the organisation’s achievements and challenges. The Impact Map is a free-to-use, publicly-accessible interactive map which contains more than 100 Fairtrade projects and commissioned studies around the world, with detailed information on all time-limited, impact-oriented Fairtrade engagements. Featured projects include those externally funded by institutional donors,…

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Tetra Pak and Absolicon launch module for renewable thermal supply to power UHT equipment line

Stuart Mitchell

Tetra Pak has announced a collaboration with Absolicon, a Swedish solar thermal company, to offer a standardised solution for industrial equipment powered by renewable thermal energy (heat)1. Absolicon has designed a scalable solar thermal module that can be integrated with current and new UHT lines and enable a range of decarbonisation options, including a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions2, based on the customer requirement and location. Tetra Pak’s UHT processing line for high temperature sterilisation of dairy products is the first solution to be offered together with a scalable solar…

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Kellogg’s launches Money Matters report to help families unlock benefits

Stuart Mitchell

Kellogg’s and GMPA launched a report on the pilot Money Matters programme at a roundtable in Parliament hosted by Stretford and Urmston MP, Andrew Western. The report highlights the success of the programme with families receiving tens of thousands of pounds as part of a scheme to match them to benefits they are entitled to but did not claim. A limited pilot of the Money Matters programme helped 104 families. Each received an average of £1,567. Roundtable attendees urged government to go further and support a wider roll out to…

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New Benchmark Analysis of U.S. Utilities Sector Reveals Inconsistent Climate Policy Advocacy

Stuart Mitchell

A new benchmark analysis of 12 of the largest U.S. electric utility companies finds significant inconsistencies between utilities’ public climate commitments and their direct and indirect climate lobbying practices.   The assessment, Toward Consistency: Assessing the Power Sector’s Climate Policy Advocacy, shows that utility companies are heavily involved in climate policy engagement and are taking steps to reach their climate commitments by advocating in support of certain climate policies. However, this progress is undermined by simultaneous advocacy against other climate policies. This analysis is a follow-up to the second Responsible Policy…

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UK marketing budgets revised up to strongest levels in almost a decade

Stuart Mitchell

Total UK marketing budgets were revised up to their strongest level in almost a decade in Q4 2023, according to the latest IPA Bellwether Report. The latest results indicate that despite the intensely challenging backdrop for UK businesses, many companies opted to remain proactive in the market, instead of withdrawing into cost-saving mode. Slightly over one quarter (26.0%) of panellists saw total marketing budgets rise in the fourth quarter of 2023, more than double the proportion registering cuts (11.3%). The resulting net balance of +14.7% was up sharply from +5.3%…

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