Month: July 2024

Google launch new coalition to scale nature-based carbon removal

Stuart Mitchell

Google have announced that they’re co-founding Symbiosis, a new coalition of corporate buyers committed to following the latest science to scale high-quality, nature-based carbon removal. Nature-based carbon removal projects, like the restoration of trees and mangroves in damaged ecosystems, are an important tool to mitigate climate change and a scalable way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But nature is complex and dynamic, and it’s full of interdependent ecological and economic systems. This means the climate impact of these projects can be hard to measure and verify, which in…

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GARM & Ad Net Zero announce global framework to measure media’s carbon emisisons

Stuart Mitchell

Ad Net Zero (ANZ) has published the first iteration of its Global Media Sustainability Framework – a series of voluntary industry standards to improve consistent, comparable measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from digital, television, print, audio, outdoor and cinema channels. The new framework has been supported by a collection of the world’s largest advertisers, as well as the world’s 6 largest advertising holding companies, major media owners, tech companies and trade bodies, many of whom have contributed to its development (listed below). The framework is the outcome of a 12-month,…

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Freeport East welcomes million-pound funding for international green hydrogen project

Stuart Mitchell

Freeport East has welcomed significant investment in an international green hydrogen project to drive decarbonisation in the maritime sector. The Hydrogen Zero Emission Maritime (HyZEM) project will receive £1.44 million from Innovate UK and a similar sum from Australia’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. HyZEM focuses on developing low-carbon green hydrogen technology for high powered workboats. The partnership was facilitated by Freeport East and includes leading UK and Australian businesses specialising in green hydrogen storage and propulsion technologies. The goal is to reduce the risks of…

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The One Club Reveals 2024 Global Creative College Rankings

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity has announced the 2024 Global Creative College Rankings, based on results of winning schools and students from around the world in the recent Young Ones Student Awards competition. Based on cumulative points for all awards won by a school’s students this year, Brigham Young University Provo was crowned Young Ones 2024 School of the Year.   The top 20 schools in the 2024 Global Creative College Rankings are as follows: 1. Brigham Young University Provo  2. Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Ludwigsburg 3. ArtCenter College of Design Pasadena…

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XPO Logistics set to compete in 2024 Big Logistics Diversity Challenge in Nottinghamshire for fourth year in a row

Stuart Mitchell

XPO, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, is entering a team of 10 colleagues to participate in the Big Logistics Diversity Challenge taking place at Newark Showground in Nottinghamshire on Thursday, 20 June. This is the fourth year in a row that the company has participated in the high-energy event, which brings together teams from logistics companies to participate in mental and physical team-building events in support of inclusion and diversity. Towards the end of the day, teams with the highest scores will be…

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