Day: 31 March 2025

Six charities prepare national Drops in the Ocean OOH campaigns

Stuart Mitchell

Conservation, education and protection are at the heart of Ocean Outdoor’s annual environmental fund Drops in the Ocean, which returns for 2025 with six important environmental partners. All of the beneficiaries chosen to share advertising space across Ocean’s UK portfolio to promote their work and build public support this year are UK based but are international leaders in their fields. They are campaigning against the effects of factory farming on animals, communities and the environment; protecting wildlife and their habitats, sharks and the overfishing of threatened marine species; working to…

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Charity plays a message from migrant parents across Westminster ahead of Child Poverty Strategy deadline

Stuart Mitchell

Campaigners from award-winning migrant and refugee rights charity Praxis screened a video on a van in various locations in Westminster last month to make migrant voices heard on child poverty. The action took place as the deadline for submitting evidence to the Child Poverty Taskforce approached.  The video played on loop around Westminster, parking outside the Department for Education, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Home Office – the departments with the power to make changes to protect migrant children from poverty.  A shocking 1/3 of children living…

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​​End the fossil fuel age for a secure and prosperous future

Stuart Mitchell

The country’s climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), present a new pathway to a decarbonised UK. The CCC sets out how to achieve this by 2050, and what decisions need to be made in the coming years to ensure success. We model that we must reduce emissions by 87% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2040 – and show how this is feasible. Our findings are: Electrification makes up 60% of emissions reductions by 2040. This includes decarbonising the grid and replacing fossil fuelled cars and heating systems with electric…

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Transformational change needed to address supermarkets’ farm to fork climate impact, with only four of top 10 setting Net Zero targets

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s ten largest supermarkets are all making progress on reducing the climate impact of their own operations, but transformational change and increased collaboration in the sector is needed to address the 90% of emissions linked with their supply chains, according to a new report from the Carbon Trust. ‘Big changes in store: How can the global supermarket sector accelerate to Net Zero?‘ takes stock of Net Zero progress of the world’s top 10 biggest supermarkets by revenue. Using the Carbon Trust’s Net Zero Sector Assessment tool, it looks at…

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UNICEF names Khaby Lame as a Goodwill Ambassador

Stuart Mitchell

Global content creator Khaby Lame has been announced as UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. The appointment – made at an event in Lame’s birth country Senegal – follows a four-day visit to meet children and young people who are driving positive change in their communities. “It’s a true honour to be appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and be part of an organisation that puts children’s rights front and centre every day,” said Lame. “From my own experience as a child fearing poverty, struggling to find my passion at school, and…

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