ExCeL London to dish up millions of lower carbon meals

ExCeL London, together with its long-standing catering partner Levy UK + Ireland, have announced a new partnership with food environmental data experts, Foodsteps, to help reduce the embodied carbon emissions in the millions of dishes its in-house team of chefs create and serve every year. Levy, the sports and entertainment arm of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has been ExCeL’s catering partner since the Royal Docks venue first opened in 2000, and has been putting food and drink at the heart of its 400 events and four million annual visitors…

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Fairtrade Foundation marks 30 Year Anniversary with an urgent call for action

The Fairtrade Foundation has recently published its 30th Anniversary Report, celebrating decades of transformative impact in ensuring that fair prices are paid to producers and farmers in lower income countries Read the report: Growing Our Movement For Change   The report also issues a call to action for businesses, campaigners and whichever party or parties forms the next UK government, following the general election, to address extreme climate challenges and promote fair trade practices. Continuing commitments from businesses have played a crucial role in helping farmers to invest Premium funds…

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Tetra Pak reveals 20% greenhouse gas emissions reduction across value chain since 2019

Tetra Pak has launched its 25th Sustainability Report, which tracks the progress the company has made against its sustainability agenda. It focuses on five interdependent areas: food systems, circularity, climate, nature and social sustainability. Launching on the United Nations’ World Environment Day on 5 June, the company’s Sustainability Report FY233 shows a 20% reduction in value chain4 GHG emissions and a 47% reduction in GHG emissions across its own operations since 2019. The latter puts Tetra Pak on track to meet its target of net zero GHG emissions in its own operations…

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Dentsu’s LGBTQ+ Pride solidarity campaign backed by major brands for fourth year running

dentsu is marking the successful launch of its LGBTQ+ Pride solidarity campaign ‘dentsu and Friends’ in London, now in its fourth year. Kicking off at the start of June, the campaign was devised by dentsu in collaboration with Co-op, Holland & Barrett, Santander, Mastercard, Wickes, and more, to stand against the hate faced by the LGBTQ+ community. Dentsu has secured advertising space with OOH leader JCDecaux to feature the ‘dentsu & Friends’ pride flag on billboards across the UK. The design is now on display throughout London, for an estimated…

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New report finds gap between leaders and laggards on methane emissions widens, underscores importance of new regulations

Ceres and Clean Air Task Force, with analysis from ERM, recently released the fourth annual report, Benchmarking Methane and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Oil and Natural Gas Production in the United States, which analyzes the production-based emissions of the largest oil and gas producers in the United States for 2022 and includes trends for 2015-2022. It finds dramatic variation in producer performance and a downward trend in overall reported sectoral methane emissions. This downward trend can in part be attributed to state and federal regulations that have been enacted…

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