Day: 8 October 2024

Global Water Challenge and Cargill Expand Partnership Across Five Continents to Address Water Challenges

Stuart Mitchell

During World Water Week 2024, Global Water Challenge (GWC) and Cargill announced the expansion of their Cargill Currents partnership platform with a renewed investment of over $5MM USD over three years and new plans to tackle water-related challenges in communities and basins across five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Cargill Currents supports community health and livelihoods, promotes watershed health and advances water security around the world. In its second phase, the partnership platform will build upon these achievements and continue to focus on prioritizing solutions that…

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Ørsted shuts down its last coal-fired heat and power plant

Stuart Mitchell

Ørsted is one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world and the global leader in offshore wind power. Earlier, Ørsted was one of the most coal-intensive energy companies in Europe, but since 2006, the company has reduced its coal consumption significantly through a reduction in the number of heat and power plants as well as conversions to certified sustainable biomass instead of coal. With this, the company will have shut down its last coal-fired heat and power plant, and Ørsted’s entire energy generation will be essentially fossil-free. Ole…

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£9m investment championing the next generation of dementia researchers

Stuart Mitchell

Alzheimer’s Society will be investing £9million into funding three new Doctoral Training Centres designed to support and nurture dementia researchers at the start of their career. Currently only one in five dementia PhD students go on to stay in dementia research often due to underfunding and the challenging nature of academic careers.  The news last week of potential new treatments in dementia highlights again that researchers taking their first steps into the field will be the dementia research leaders of the future. They are critical to maintaining the momentum to…

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Wealthy Britons could give £2.8 billion more to charity each year

Stuart Mitchell

New research reveals that wealthy people in Great Britain say they could give an estimated £2.8 billion more to charity each year, raising the prospect of more than halving the giving gap the country faces relative to world leaders New Zealand and Canada. If that money were donated, health charities and children’s organisations are likely to benefit the most from an influx in giving.  The analysis by Pro Bono Economics (PBE) identifies 5.8 million ‘wealthy’ people in Great Britain – those with assets of £100,000 or more when their main…

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F1 partners with Aggreko to deliver low-carbon power solutions at European races from 2025

Stuart Mitchell

As Formula 1 drives forward with its Net Zero by 2030 goal, it has today announced a multi-year partnership with Aggreko, a world-leading provider of temporary power solutions, to deliver innovative low-carbon energy generation systems at all European Grands Prix from the 2025 season. As part of the deal, Aggreko will become an Official Provider of F1. Aggreko and Formula 1 have been working on this system together since 2023 when they first piloted a centralised power generation compound at the Austrian Grand Prix, which reduced associated carbon emissions by…

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