Year: 2024

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories

Stuart Mitchell

Disability:IN, the global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business, today announced the winners of its 2024 Inclusion Awards. The annual accolade recognizes outstanding disability inclusion efforts by visionary brands and individuals from among Disability:IN’s more than 500 corporate partners. “Each year we are fortunate to see exemplary disability inclusion efforts from so many worthy companies and individuals. The volume reaffirms that this work continues to become a business imperative for companies around the globe,” said Jill Houghton, president and CEO of Disability:IN. “Our 2024 Inclusion Awards recipients represent…

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New Ceres analysis reveals strong corporate climate action resulting from shareholder proposals

Stuart Mitchell

A new report released recently shows a high volume of corporate climate commitments resulting from shareholder proposals that were filed and withdrawn or received a majority vote in the 2021 U.S. Proxy Season and that most of these commitments have been implemented by the companies. The results highlight a substantial level of follow-through by companies on their promises to address climate-related financial risks and opportunities and responsiveness by companies to the climate-related requests of their shareholders.  From Commitment to Implementation: An Analysis of Corporate Climate Actions from the 2021 Proxy…

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IPA research reveals how much average Brit intends to spend this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

The average British consumer expects to spend almost £600 (£593.90) on core Christmas-related products and activity – including food, gifts, decorations, socialising and travelling – during the 2024 festive period. This is according to the IPA’s annual Christmas-focussed survey of 2,000 UK adults, carried out by Opinium. The IPA Insight report ‘The 2024 Christmas Consumer’ reveals that this expected spend is highest among 35-44s (£723.40) and over 75s (£607.60) and lowest among 65-74s (£486.60) and 55-64s (£489.60). Parents also expect to spend considerably more (£654.40) than non-parents (£397.90). The majority…

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New members to CISL’s Canopy enabling businesses to transform sustainably

Stuart Mitchell

CISL’s innovation team works to catalyse collaborative innovation to accelerate solutions to global challenges, and is pleased to welcome new members to our community. The Canopy is CISL’s global community of impact-driven start ups, entrepreneurs, major companies and investors putting sustainability at the heart of their business models, and advancing solutions to achieve net zero, protect and restore nature, and build inclusive and resilient societies.  We deliver transformational impact working with major companies, entrepreneurs, academics and investors to foster market relevant, sustainability-led innovations in products, business models, sectors and systems. …

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Airbus to boost sustainable aviation fuel production through investment in LanzaJet

Stuart Mitchell

Airbus is investing in LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology company and producer, in line with its ambition to act as a catalyst for the global development of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). This investment will support the development of the Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) pathway, an important step required to produce SAF at scale by enabling LanzaJet to further expand its capability and capacity to scale its proprietary Ethanol to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) process technology. “Sustainable aviation fuels are one of the most important levers available to decarbonise aviation, but their…

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