Month: November 2024

New guidance to help businesses get ahead of the curve with nature-related impact reporting

Stuart Mitchell

One year on from the release of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures’ recommendations, more than 400 organisations – including 63 from the UK – have committed to begin reporting on nature-related issues. And just two weeks ahead of the COP16 global biodiversity summit, new guidance from IEMA will help simplify the process, allowing small businesses to adapt to making nature-related disclosures. The new guidance document, Business Actions on TNFD: A primer on roles and reporting using the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures Framework, has been published by IEMA as…

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Energy sector taskforce unites to tackle Radio Teleswitch challenge

Stuart Mitchell

Energy suppliers and other stakeholders have committed to working together to replace 800,000 Radio Teleswitch (RTS) meters across the United Kingdom before the service is switched off next summer.  The agreement follows a summit, organised by the energy regulator Ofgem, gathering suppliers and stakeholders including Energy UK and Citizens Advice to find a joint solution to the challenge of migrating households from the ageing technology before the service ends on 30 June 2025.  The RTS system, which uses long wave radio signals to tell some electricity meters to switch between on…

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Ethical Hydration brand One Water wins at 2024 Frontier Awards

Stuart Mitchell

The winners of the landmark 40th Frontier Awards were announced at a glittering gala event held last month at the iconic Carlton, Cannes. One Water and World Duty Free, a subsidiary of global travel experience player, Avolta, picked up the People & Planet Award: Sustainability. The award was for an annual sales initiative that One Water runs every year with World Duty Free. For every bottle of One Water sold, a donation is made to The One Foundation, funding clean water projects all around the world.  Top-sellers in stores ‘win’…

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Baby Boomers’ shift to digital content accelerates but brands are failing to keep up

Stuart Mitchell

Baby Boomers are the world’s wealthiest generation, however, brands are failing to keep up with their increasingly digital media habits, according to WARC Media’s latest Global Advertising Trends report, ‘Baby Boomers’ big digital shift’, released recently. Baby Boomers, defined for this report as adults born between 1946 and 1964, i.e. those aged between 60 and 78 today, do not spend ever-greater amounts of time on social platforms. Instead, older generations are switching from offline versions of content media to their online extensions – be it connected TV or online press.…

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The extent of the UK’s low digital confidence revealed amid ongoing cost-of-living crisis

Stuart Mitchell

ew research from Good Things Foundation has revealed a nationwide lack of confidence in using the internet to manage money, navigate the job market and stay safe online amid the ongoing cost of living crisis. This confidence gap is particularly pronounced for the one in twenty Brits (5%) who don’t have any access to broadband, highlighting the impact of the digital divide.  In response, Good Things Foundation is urging Brits to refer friends and family facing digital exclusion to its pioneering Learn My Way courses, aimed at bridging this gap…

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