Month: February 2024

Barclays establishes new Energy Transition Group to support clients on the path to net zero

Stuart Mitchell

Barclays has announced that it is establishing a new Energy Transition Group, within its Corporate and Investment Bank. The new group will be responsible for providing strategic advice to clients as they explore potential energy transition opportunities.  “At Barclays, we have long believed the energy transition will effectively re-shape how businesses and the world are thinking about the transition to net-zero,” says Cathal Deasy, Global Co-Head of Investment Banking. “The creation of this new team is a natural evolution and further enables us to better serve as a lead advisor to…

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Compassion Demands Legislators Ban Cages to Underpin Industry Progress Outlined in EggTrack 2023

Stuart Mitchell

Compasson in World Farming has launched EggTrack 2023 which celebrates the continued progress made by food companies towards fulfilling their voluntary commitments on cage-free egg production for laying hens.  With leading food companies, consumer sentiment and robust scientific evidence supporting a cage-free future, Compassion urges policy makers to get on board and introduce legislation to underpin the end of cages. This plea is particularly pertinent to the EU where the European Commission is yet to deliver its promised ban on the use of cages for farmed animals, a measure supported by…

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Refreshed governance for global sustainability standard setter

Stuart Mitchell

Three new members have been appointed to the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), the independent body responsible for developing and setting the GRI Standards.  The GSSB membership is globally diverse and covers five defined constituency groups: business enterprise, investment institutions, labor organizations, mediating institutions, and civil society. This ensures that the GRI Standards, the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards, reflect the needs of a multi-stakeholder audience and are developed in the public good. The new additions to the GSSB are: Rebeca Coriat, Head of Stewardship, Lomboard Ordier Investment…

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Hitachi Digital Services and OneThird Fight Supermarket Food Waste With First-of-its-Kind Digital Solution

Stuart Mitchell

Hitachi Digital Services, the digital consultancy and technology services subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., is supporting food waste prevention specialists OneThird in the development of a breakthrough solution tackling the global food waste crisis. OneThird selected Digital Services from Hitachi Vantara, now a new entity known as Hitachi Digital Services, to combine its Azure cloud and application expertise with their in-depth understanding of sensing and AI technology and together they created a real-time data insights platform to enable a smarter and more flexible food supply chain. The solution enables fresh produce…

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£1m safety net for domestic abuse survivors as SafeLives and NatWest renew crucial frontline fund

Stuart Mitchell

SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good, has announced the three-year renewal of its successful Circle Fund, thanks to a further £1m donation from NatWest. Designed by services and survivors, the Circle Fund provides fast, flexible and impactful grants of up to £500 to answer victims’ individual needs, delivered via a network of frontline services.  Since NatWest’s initial £1m donation in 2020, 137 frontline services across the UK have now accessed the Circle Fund, directly supporting over 4,000 survivors of domestic abuse. This includes specialist services…

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