Day: 20 September 2024

Hubbub launches new ‘Community Nature Network’ to connect, grow and fund community green spaces

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub has launched its first ever ‘Community Nature Network’ to help community-led green spaces thrive and bring nature closer to people and people closer to nature. The Community Nature Network, supported by funding from the Wates Family Enterprise Trust and the Bentley Environmental Foundation, will offer funding opportunities, free resources, guidance and peer to peer support to community groups who wish to establish new green spaces or improve existing ones. The network is free to join from today and is open to any publicly-accessible community-led green space. The…

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Under2 Coalition announces three new Future Fund projects

Stuart Mitchell

Climate Group has selected three powerful local projects in Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia to support under the Future Fund project this year. In a highly competitive field, these projects stood out for their long term impact and scalability – potentially helping governments across the network to learn from their example and increase their ambition. The three successful projects will take place in: Acre, Brazil: Analytical diagnosis of the impact of floods on the socially vulnerable population of the State of Acre through an online platform. Data acquisition/survey to create a visualization…

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Number of youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET) a cause for concern, despite falling jobless rate

Stuart Mitchell

The global labour market outlook for young people has improved in the last four years, and the upward trend is expected to continue for two more, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report. However, the report, titled Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024 (GET for Youth), cautions that the number of 15- to 24-year-olds who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) is concerning, and that the post-COVID 19 pandemic employment recovery has not been universal. Young people in certain regions and many young women are not…

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102% growth in the number of companies with science-based targets fuelled by growth in Asia

Stuart Mitchell

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the corporate climate action organization, reaffirmed its continued global growth today, announcing that the total number of companies with science-based targets increased by 102% during 2023 alone compared to all previous years, fuelled in part by strong growth in Asia. 113% more companies set targets during 2023 than in 2022, according to the SBTi Monitoring Report 2023. Companies with validated science-based targets or commitments to set targets reached 39% penetration of global market cap in 2023, 2 percentage points higher than in 2022, according…

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Significant Data Gaps Found in Research on Indigenous Peoples and Media

Stuart Mitchell

The results of an extensive literature review conducted by UNESCO and researchers from Griffith University in Australia, which included Indigenous academics, concluded that no prior study has examined the intersection of media and Indigenous Peoples on a global scale. This underscores a significant gap in evidence for policy and decision makers, including UNESCO, regarding Indigenous Peoples’ opportunities to express their views and opinions, access public information and media content equally, and establish and manage their own media.  The literature review analyzed 394 sources from all over the world in which: …

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