Day: 5 April 2025

Cove UK Leads The Way With Vegetarian Society Accredited Menu Choices

Stuart Mitchell

The award-winning Cove UK has become the first UK holiday park group to receive Vegetarian Society Approved Vegetarian and Vegan trademarks across its menu. A total of 17 dishes have been accredited. They will be available across four of Cove UK’s holiday parks: Seal Bay, West Sussex; Solway, Cumbria; Hunters Quay and Drimsynie in Argyll, Scotland. This move reinforces Cove UK’s commitment to offering high-quality, meat-free dining options, with the trademarks giving guests assurance that these dishes meet strict vegetarian and vegan standards. With consumer demand for meat-free options rising,…

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Global Cost of Renewables to Continue Falling in 2025 as China Extends Manufacturing Lead: BloombergNEF

Stuart Mitchell

The cost of clean power technologies such as wind, solar and battery technologies are expected to fall further by 2-11% in 2025, breaking last year’s record. According to a latest report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF), new wind and solar farms are already undercutting new coal and gas plants on production cost in almost every market globally. Meanwhile, China’s clean technology manufacturing overcapacity has led to rising protectionism in the form of import tariffs by countries to avoid cheap imports upending their own energy markets. Trade barriers could temporarily stall…

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Future Fund Impact Report 2024

Stuart Mitchell

Established in 2017, the Future Fund is a unique Under2 Coalition project that was developed not only for its governments but also by its governments. It relies on annual contributions to facilitate climate action in developing and emerging economies by offering direct funding for capacity-building projects, knowledge sharing and access to global climate events in regional languages. To date, the fund has supported 17 projects, 25 secondments, and 57 travel opportunities for subnational leaders to actively participate on the global stage, including the UN Climate Change Conferences (COPs) and Climate…

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TotalEnergies and RWE join forces on green hydrogen to decarbonize the Leuna refinery

Stuart Mitchell

In line with its 2030 ambition to decarbonize the hydrogen used in its European refineries, TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with the German developer RWE to supply 30,000 tons a year of green hydrogen to the German Leuna refinery for fifteen years, beginning in 2030. The green hydrogen will be produced by a 300 MW electrolyzer, built and operated by RWE in Lingen. Green hydrogen storage will be provided locally. The green hydrogen will be delivered by a 600 km pipeline to the gates of the refinery and will prevent…

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Achieving gender equality in employment rates would take almost two centuries

Stuart Mitchell

Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set out an ambitious agenda for equality, women still face significant barriers in the economy, according to Women and the economy: 30 years after the Beijing Declaration, a new International Labour Organization (ILO) brief released on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Despite employment gaps between women and men narrowing from 27.1 to 23.1 percentage points since 1991, women’s employment rates remain far below men’s, with only 46.4 per cent of working-age women employed in 2024, compared to 69.5 per…

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