Month: January 2025

New report finds that improved community engagement for clean infrastructure projects is critical to New England’s energy transition

Stuart Mitchell

A new report released today by Acadia Center and Clean Air Task Force (CATF) reveals that enhanced community engagement for clean energy infrastructure projects is critical to achieving New England’s 2050 decarbonization goals. The report highlights the opportunity to accelerate the region’s clean energy progress by addressing local concerns and better equipping communities to meaningfully participate in siting and approval processes. Drawing from prominent case studies around the region, the report also identifies promising options for developers, communities, and policymakers to improve project planning and engagement, helping reduce the risk…

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Replicating international approaches to retrofit finance could reduce bills in 675,000 UK homes a year

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Finance Institute unveils its latest analysis, ‘Unsecured Green Home Loans: Consumer Protection and Scale in International Markets’, analysing how international innovation and consumer protection can be applied in the UK to accelerate home retrofits required for the decarbonisation of the built environment. The Department for Energy and Net Zero’s next steps for the Warm Homes Plan, announced last week, is welcomed to support retrofitting UK homes, however, provisions needs to be made in the UK for solutions to offer the low-interest loans and grants outlined in the labour…

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Environmental charities and causes working to protect the planet invited to apply for space on Ocean screens

Stuart Mitchell

Ocean has reopened its annual programme, which gives pro bono advertising space to environmental charities and non-profits working to save the planet. Under the Drops in the Ocean initiative, Ocean donates 2% of the Group’s annual reported revenue to environmental charities in the form of advertising value across the company’s extensive UK digital screen network. Organisations and causes associated with preserving land, nature, the oceans, global warming, pollution, sustainability and the climate emergency are invited to tap into the Drops in the Ocean fund to advertise their messages and latest campaigns and promote fundraising…

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Benevity Accelerates Growth and Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

Benevity Inc., the market-leading global provider of corporate social responsibility solutions, recently announced significant innovation and business advancements to its platform and investment in its executive team across security, product, and marketing.  The only platform offering integrated capabilities across community investment, employee giving, volunteering and employee resource groups (ERGs), Benevity recently launched a number of new enhancements, including unified search opportunities, automation of multiple volunteering tasks and adaptive features for user-generated giving opportunities. These updates make Benevity’s Employee Engagement solutions even more intuitive and configurable and enable companies to deliver…

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WFA reveals CMO shortlist for Global Marketer of the Year 2024

Stuart Mitchell

Expert jury selects global marketing leaders from AB InBev, DoorDash, Kraft Heinz, The Walt Disney Company and Cisco as finalists. Voting is now open until 20 January 2025, with the winner announced later that month in partnership with The Drum. The five finalists for WFA’s 2024 Global Marketer of the Year award, celebrating the work of global marketing leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies, have been announced. An expert jury of 18 marketing leaders, led by Mastercard Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and WFA President, Raja Rajamannar, considered…

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