Month: August 2024

Charity event at Kings Cross highlights global food crisis with #emptyplates

Stuart Mitchell

Hunger campaigners, activists and chefs around the world launched a new campaign last month to highlight the global food crisis. The #emptyplates initiative is organised by Hungry for Action, a coalition of international and UK organisations including World Vision, calling on governments to action a global plan to tackle the deepening crisis. It uses the idea of an empty plate to symbolise the reality for hundreds of millions of people who are going hungry in the world today. A global IPSOS study conducted across 16 countries around the world on…

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JLR To Roll Out FSC-Certified Natural Rubber Tyres Across Its Luxury Vehicles

Stuart Mitchell

JLR has joined forces with global tyre manufacturer Pirelli in a global automotive industry‑first commitment to use FSC‑certified natural rubber tyres across its range of modern luxury vehicles.  The luxury car manufacturer will be the first to adopt FSC‑certified tyres at scale, transitioning all tyres from Pirelli across its entire portfolio, debuting on the new Range Rover Electric. The commitment will amount to over 250,000 FSC‑certified tyres per year.  The collaboration between JLR and Pirelli represents a significant step in increasingly sustainable tyre production and adoption, supporting the preservation of…

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Pandora’s net-zero climate goal validated by the Science Based Targets initiative

Stuart Mitchell

The leading corporate climate action organization Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has announced that is has validated Pandora’s target to become a net-zero business by 2040. This validation marks a significant milestone in Pandora’s sustainability journey. It affirms the company’s ambition to decarbonize at the pace and scale required to align with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C.  To reach net-zero, a company must cut emissions by at least 90% across its full value chain and use permanent carbon removal to balance out any residual…

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From learning to action: unveiling new and updated guidance for corporate nature targets

Stuart Mitchell

Science Based Targets Network are excited to announce our main content release of 2024 is now available: You can explore all of our latest corporate guidance online through our new target-setting guide which is also available offline through our just-published corporate manual. Both now serve as the main entry point into our technical methods.  This suite of updated technical guidance and enabling materials marks an important milestone in our journey, made possible by the fruitful learning experience of our trail-blazing target-setting companies and the broader Network’s ongoing support from our NGO partners, companies…

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Rich countries overstating “true value” of climate finance by up to $88 billion, says Oxfam

Stuart Mitchell

“Real” financial effort by rich countries to provide climate finance to lower-income countries is less than a third of what the reported figure seems to suggest Rich countries have again effectively short-changed low- and middle-income countries as part of international climate change negotiations by as much as $88 billion in 2022 according to new figures from Oxfam. Wealthy countries say they mobilized nearly $116 billion in climate finance in 2022 ―for the first time surpassing the $100 billion a year they had originally promised to reach by 2020, to help…

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