Day: 13 July 2024

Xylem Scales Sustainability Impacts with New Water Stewardship Commitments

Stuart Mitchell

Global water technology leader Xylem is expanding its sustainability commitments with new 2030 water stewardship goals, following the company’s combination with Evoqua. Xylem’s 2030 goals include enabling its customers to reduce global water demand by at least 2 billion cubic meters, reducing the company’s own water intensity by 30%, and gaining visibility into the water intensity of its supply chain through water stewardship reporting and practices. The commitments are captured in Xylem’s 2023 Sustainability Report, which also details the company’s progress to advance water security. Since 2019, Xylem technology has…

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Sodexo volunteers chalk up over 1,400 reading sessions through platinum partnership with Chapter One

Stuart Mitchell

The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation is a platinum partner to Chapter One, a charity aimed at improving educational outcomes, addressing a root cause of food insecurity. This National Volunteers Week (3-9 June) Sodexo is recognising around 140 employees and young family members who have supported Chapter One this academic year. Since September 2023, 105 of Sodexo’s employees have chalked up over 1,400 30-minute reading sessions with children aged 5-8 across 15 schools in: Bradford, Doncaster, East Sussex, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Middlesbrough. By the end of the academic year this…

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WACL partners with Snap, YouTube and Pinterest to launch important campaign calling for better representation of all women in advertising

Stuart Mitchell

Women in Advertising, Communications and Leadership (WACL), in collaboration with influencer marketing agency Billion Dollar Boy, recently launched a critically important new creative campaign as part of its ongoing Represent Me initiative. The purpose of the campaign is to amplify WACL’s purpose, which is to accelerate gender equality in our industry.  There is an increasing body of evidence from multiple sources, including IPSOS’s A Woman’s Worth, System 1’s Feeling Seen and the Geena Davis Institute, that shows that women still do not feel accurately represented in advertising. Even though, as the findings of the Unstereotype Alliance State of the…

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Designit joins the fight against hate speech with new project

Stuart Mitchell

A booklet providing people in Norway with tips and practical advice on speaking out against hate speech has been created by Designit, the Wipro-owned global experience innovation company, together with Amnesty International, the Norwegian Human Rights Institution (NIM) and diversity, inclusion and mentoring experts Catalysts. Distributed to public sector organisations – such as schools and local authorities – as well as the private sector, the booklets are part of the ‘Silence Hurts’ campaign in Norway. The campaign was launched following research from Amnesty, Catalysts and NIM that showed that 56%…

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Screwfix halves direct carbon emissions and commits £1,000,000 to increase refurb programme

Stuart Mitchell

Screwfix, the UK’s leading trade retailer has reduced its direct carbon emissions (scope 1 and 2) by 50% since 2021/22, even after taking into account growth from 790 stores to more than 900 stores.   In 2021, Screwfix’s direct carbon emissions measured more than 23,000 tonnes, in 2022 it was 18,900 tonnes, and by the end of 2023 it had decreased to less than 11,000 tonnes.   The fall in direct carbon is driven by a move away from fossil fuel heating to air source heat pumps (which use cleaner electricity) in…

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