Month: January 2025

Policy momentum behind critical minerals recycling gathering pace but greater uptake required

Stuart Mitchell

First-of-its-kind IEA report shows scaling up critical minerals recycling can deliver major benefits for energy security, diversification and emissions reductions. A surge in new policies and facilities to support the recycling of critical minerals, the essential raw materials that go into clean energy technologies, could significantly reduce potential strains on supply as countries pursue energy transitions. The report, Recycling of Critical Minerals: strategies to scale up recycling and urban mining, shows that the growth in new mining supply for critical minerals could be brought down by between 25-40% by mid-century…

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EcoVadis’ Coupa Connector Empowers Procurement Teams to Embed Sustainability into Every Purchasing Decision

Stuart Mitchell

EcoVadis, the globally trusted sustainability intelligence platform, announced today it will offer a Coupa Connector in the Coupa App Marketplace. The Coupa Connector seamlessly synchronizes EcoVadis sustainability ratings and risk profile data with each supplier’s Coupa profile, so buyers can make strategic purchasing and supplier relationship management decisions based on a supplier’s sustainability risk, performance, and maturity.  A study of buyers and suppliers across the world shows that digital integration is a proven accelerator of sustainability-enhanced decisions, value, and impact. Programs with high integration are three to four times more…

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Effie Awards Unveils Global Multi-Region Winners for 2024

Stuart Mitchell

The Effie Awards has recently unveiled the winners of this year’s Global Multi-Region Awards. Two Golds, two Silvers, and a Bronze were awarded to projects demonstrating marketing effectiveness from far and wide. Every continent is represented among the markets, which span countries from Sierra Leone to Japan, Germany to Brazil, Australia to the US. Following the final round of judging in New York last week, the finalists have been whittled down to five winners: GOLD:– Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Publicis Groupe, and La Fondation Publicis’ ‘Working with Cancer Pledge’…

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UNEP’s Intergovernmental Council for Buildings and Climate launches at COP29

Stuart Mitchell

The UNEP-hosted Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) announced the establishment of the Intergovernmental Council for Buildings and Climate (ICBC) today in Baku.  Launched at the Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change at COP29, with UNEP’s GlobalABC as its secretariat, the ICBC is a significant step toward implementing the Chaillot Declaration. The ministerial declaration is a collaborative global policy framework launched in March 2024 – and endorsed by more than 70 countries – that engages stakeholders across the buildings sector in climate action.   Responsible for 37 per…

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Triodos Bank commits to financing €500 million in nature-based solutions

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank recently announced its commitment to provide at least EUR 500 million in investments, loans and contributions to the nature-based solutions sector by the end of 2030 as part of its biodiversity targets. This initiative underscores Triodos Bank’s dedication to addressing the urgent need for nature restoration and conservation, removal of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and providing societal benefits. The importance of nature-based solutions  Nature-based solutions involve working with nature to address societal challenges, providing benefits for human well-being, biodiversity and the climate. They encompass conservation, restoration, and…

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