Month: October 2024

GCF unveils new organisational structure to accelerate climate action

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has unveiled the latest phase of its ambitious reform agenda to enhance efficiency and impact in supporting climate action. The Fund transitions today to a new organisational structure designed to fulfill its promise, potential, and ambition. This transition is part of GCF’s “50 by 30” vision and reform agenda, which aims to efficiently and impactfully manage USD 50 billion in investments by 2030, as announced by GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte at last year’s United Nations General Assembly. Drawing on a decade of programming lessons,…

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Cascale Issues Data-Driven Decarbonisation Roadmap, Rallies Industry on New Era of Business Leadership in Climate, Social Justice

Stuart Mitchell

Global nonprofit alliance Cascale, formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, centered their recent Annual Meeting in Munich on a call to action: Attendees must become bold advocates for change within their organizations and throughout the industry. This was the first Annual Meeting since the organization rebranded in February 2024, and it marks a major milestone in the organization’s evolution. Themed “A New Era of Unified Impact,” the event united over 600 attendees from around the world, who heard from more than 80 global industry experts. The tone was set during the…

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New research establishes how Official sports fan zones attract new visitors and boost footfall to Out of home venues

Stuart Mitchell

According to research carried out during the Olympic Games by Ocean Outdoor and Opinium, one in three visitors interviewed say they made a specific plan to visit one of the official Team GB fan zones presented by Ocean this summer. More than 700 fan zone visitors took part in the study which sets out to measure the visitor experience, the value for landlords, sponsors and brand partners and the importance of the association with Team GB.    The key findings reveal that: Nearly half of those interviewed (47%) said they…

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Think tank launches project to resolve ethical dilemmas in fundraising for schools

Stuart Mitchell

Fundraising think tank Rogare has launched a project to create tools and theories for resolving ethical dilemmas in fundraising for schools. The project is being carried out in Australia and New Zealand in three phases, and will form a foundation for the ethics of school fundraising that will apply in other countries. With an expected completion date of July 2025, it is the second major project that Rogare has conducted outside the USA and UK – after its work with AFP Canada on the Canadian Fundraising Narrative. Project objectives The…

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Executives say sustainability investments are up, new Deloitte research reveals

Stuart Mitchell

Deloitte’s 2024 CxO Sustainability Report: Signs of a shift in business climate action shows that climate change remains a top three issue for global C-suite level business leaders (CxOs), surpassing political uncertainty, competition for talent, and the changing regulatory environment, among others. A key indicator of climate’s staying power on leaders’ agendas is that 85% of CxOs say they have increased investments in sustainability in the past year—up from 75% in 2023—and half have started to implement technology solutions to help achieve climate goals. Now in its third year, the…

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