Month: June 2024

‘All Varieties’ campaign celebrates diversity and inclusion across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The Out of Home industry celebrates the labels that help people express their individuality and define their place in the world with the All Varieties campaign.   Running from June to July to coincide with Pride 2024, the campaign features new public artwork by renowned artist, Martin Firrell, and highlights the diversity of labels such as ‘they/them,’ ‘gay,’ ‘straight,’ ‘non-binary,’ and ‘trans.’  All Varieties embraces a wide range of identities, including gender non-conforming and experimental pronouns like ‘ze/zir,’ as well as historically significant labels like ‘femme’ and ‘dyke.’ Digital gallery…

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Surging investment in manufacturing of clean energy technologies is supporting economic growth

Stuart Mitchell

Global manufacturing capacity for solar PV today already meets what is needed this decade on a net zero pathway, and capacity for batteries is close, new report finds Booming investment in the manufacturing of clean energy technologies, especially solar PV and batteries, is becoming a powerful economic driver globally, creating new industrial and employment opportunities, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.  In a first-of-its-kind analysis, Advancing Clean Technology Manufacturing finds that global investment in the manufacturing of five key clean energy technologies – solar PV, wind,…

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Commission and national consumer protection authorities starts action against 20 airlines for misleading greenwashing practices

Stuart Mitchell

Following an alert from the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the European Commission and EU consumer authorities (Network of Consumer Protection Cooperation – CPC – Authorities) sent letters to 20 airlines identifying several types of potentially misleading green claims and inviting them to bring their practices in line with EU consumer law within 30 days. The CPC network, led by the Belgian Directorate General for Economic Inspection, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, the Norwegian Consumer Authority and the Spanish Directorate General of Consumer Affairs, focused on claims made by…

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The climate impact of fertilisers – and ShareAction’s challenge to Europe’s biggest fertiliser company

Stuart Mitchell

ShareAction has worked with investors of Europe’s largest fertiliser company to trigger an important shareholder vote on whether the company should take stronger action to reduce its huge carbon emissions. But does fertiliser, the kind you’d use in flowerbeds and farmers spread on their crops, really have that much of an impact on climate change? And how could this vote – or ‘resolution’ – change anything? ‘Filing a resolution’ allows investors to escalate a particular issue to the company directors and other shareholders – who can all then vote on…

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IFRS Foundation and EFRAG publish interoperability guidance

Stuart Mitchell

The IFRS Foundation and EFRAG have published guidance material to illustrate the high level of alignment achieved between the International Sustainability Standards Board’s IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (ISSB Standards) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and how a company can apply both sets of standards, including detailed analysis of the alignment in climate-related disclosures. Having first worked during the development of the ISSB Standards and ESRS to deliver a high degree of alignment, today’s publication now provides practical support that explains how companies can efficiently comply with both sets…

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