Month: June 2024

Digital games can have a positive impact on children’s well-being

Stuart Mitchell

Digital games can contribute to and support the well-being of children if they are designed with the needs of children in mind, according to new research from UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. The study shows that well-designed digital play experiences can allow children to experience a sense of control, have freedom of choice and experience mastery and feelings of achievement. They can also help children to regulate their emotions, feel connected to others, and find joy in creating and exploring as well as acting on new…

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Carbon Clean achieves fabrication milestone on FlagshipONE with the project’s first carbon capture unit module

Stuart Mitchell

Carbon Clean, a leader in revolutionising carbon capture solutions, has achieved a fabrication milestone on Ørsted’s FlagshipONE project, Europe’s largest commercial-scale eMethanol facility under construction. The first equipment has been mounted on the structural steel of the first module, marking the start of the module assembly process. Once operational, Carbon Clean’s technology will be capable of capturing 70,000 tonnes of biogenic CO2 per year for Ørsted’s facility in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Carbon Clean’s CaptureX semi-modular technology for this project is being fabricated at Schwartz Hautmont’s site at the Port of Tarragona…

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New education partnerships for CISL announced

Stuart Mitchell

CISL is delighted to announce two exciting new partnerships with organisations delivering sector-leading sustainability education.   For over three decades, CISL has drawn upon leading academics, practitioners and innovators to help inform business strategy and inspire action through education. Through these partnerships we aim to continue inspiring global action towards sustainability leadership, drawing on innovative, engaging, and accessible new developments in the education landscape.   WeESG WeESG provide leading training and advisory services for sustainable finance. WeESG’s mission is to empower the global finance sector to successfully embrace sustainable finance.…

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Media Smart & Advertising Association Publish Political Advertising Guide

Stuart Mitchell

Media Smart, the advertising and media industry’s education programme, has partnered with the Advertising Association, the UK advertising industry trade body, to publish ‘What’s the deal with political advertising?’. The new 10-point guide aims to help people, especially young people preparing to vote for the first time, understand ads they may see ahead of this year’s local, mayoral, and general elections. It comes as data from UK advertising thinktank, Credos, shows 44% of people are concerned about political advertising, with people significantly less likely to trust political advertising (29%) than…

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Coalition Of Local And International Groups Launch Fundraising Campaign To Protect ‘Yosemite Of South America’ Forever

Stuart Mitchell

Led by Chilean NGO Puelo Patagonia, the campaign Conserva Puchegüín is working urgently to raise $78 million to purchase and protect 325,000 acres in Chilean Patagonia.   The campaign has two years to raise the money needed to protect the Cochamó Valley, also known as the “Yosemite of South America” by rock climbers around the globe. The area features thousand-meter granite walls, glacier-crowned peaks, rivers, plunging waterfalls and massive groves of alerce trees, plus endangered and endemic species, and many small communities with traditional ways of life. Puelo Patagonia and The Nature…

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