Month: February 2024

HRC Foundation Releases First-Ever Report Detailing Steps for Businesses to Become LGBTQ+ Allies in Action

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released its first-ever Corporate Citizenship Report, The LGBTQ+ Corporate Citizen: A Framework for Emerging Best Practices in Allyship. The new report offers guidance to companies that want to invest in closing the ally gap. The ally gap acknowledges that LGBTQ+ allyship is a journey and describes the space between the intent to be an LGBTQ+ ally and the actions needed to get there. HRC Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Report…

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New IPA report reveals evidence that marketing is an investment

Stuart Mitchell

Eighty percent of today’s investment analysts examine marketing expenditure in the companies they cover. More analysts also cite the strength of a company’s brands and marketing as an important factor for their appraisal of stock exchange listed businesses than the quality of their leadership or record of technological innovation. Yet when businesses are under-performing, marketing budgets are some of the first to be cut. The resulting reductions in marketing expenditure are often viewed in financial markets as a positive short-term cost saving with less attention paid to their impact on…

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Barclays focuses capital and resources on supporting energy companies to decarbonise

Stuart Mitchell

Barclays recently published a revised Climate Change Statement to progress its climate strategy and continues its focus on clients actively engaged in the energy transition. Following Barclays’ commitment to finance $1trillion of Sustainable and Transition Finance by 2030, Barclays also releases a Transition Finance Framework to support us to meet that target and facilitate the transition finance needed to decarbonise high-emitting sectors. The updated Climate Change Statement outlines: No project finance, or other direct finance to energy clients, for upstream oil and gas expansion projects or related infrastructure. Restrictions for…

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This parking building is made using decommissioned wind turbines

Stuart Mitchell

In a new high-tech neighbourhood in Lund in Southern Sweden, turbine blades from a decommissioned wind farm will become a very visible part of the façade of an eco-friendly multistorey car park. Wind turbine blades are made to deliver electricity and withstand tough weather for decades. Much like when building an aeroplane, composite materials are used. Materials such as glass fibre, carbon fibre, epoxy resin, balsa wood, metals and various fillers are pressed tightly together in layers, making the blades extremely durable but difficult to recycle. When the city of…

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Lynx gains PETA approval and joins Beauty Without Bunnies list

Stuart Mitchell

Lynx is the latest Unilever brand to gain approval from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The accreditation means Lynx joins more than 20 Unilever brands on the animal protection organisation’s global Beauty Without Bunnies programme, renowned for its rigorous high standards. It’s independent recognition that Lynx does not conduct or commission any animal tests on ingredients or finished products, and that the brand pledges not to do so in the future. The business case for non-animal testing Unilever has used and developed alternatives to animal testing for…

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