Month: April 2025

JLR Launches Charitable Foundation To Empower Youth To Reach Their Full Potential

Stuart Mitchell

JLR recently announced the creation of the JLR Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to empowering children and young people to reach their full potential and catalyse positive social and environmental change. JLR is committed to donating millions to the JLR Foundation, pledging up to £2.5 million to support its charitable work in the first year, with plans to increase funding annually as the Foundation grows. The charity will use the funds to award grants to charitable organisations and NGOs that benefit children and young people through initiatives that further their…

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From Barry to Bangor – Joanna Page helps busy families save money by taking food waste off the menu

Stuart Mitchell

New research from Wales Recycles reveals that nearly a quarter of people in Wales (24%) and almost a third (31%) of families with children living at home fall into the category of ‘high food wasters’, largely due to their demanding schedules. Yet, nine in ten agree that everyone has a responsibility to reduce food waste at home. To help busy families in Wales reduce the financial and environmental impact of food waste, Wales Recycles has teamed up with busy mum, actor and presenter Joanna Page, along with Welsh chef and…

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Vietnam’s 2050 Net-Zero Target Represents a $2.4 Trillion Opportunity

Stuart Mitchell

Vietnam can still fulfill its goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 and help limit global warming to well below 2C. But doing so rests on a rapid scale-up of clean power, electric vehicles and, to a lesser extent, carbon capture and storage technology, according to a new report published today by BloombergNEF, Net-Zero Transition: Opportunities for Vietnam. This report builds on the results of BNEF’s flagship New Energy Outlook 2024, presenting two updated climate scenarios: a Net Zero Scenario that maps a path to net-zero emissions globally by 2050,…

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Artists Mount First Amendment Challenge to New Grant Requirements by the National Endowment for the Arts

Stuart Mitchell

Artists and theater groups are challenging a new certification requirement and funding prohibition that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has imposed on grant applications. The NEA now requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” in order to be eligible for funding and blocks any projects that reasonably appear to “promote gender ideology” from getting an award. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Rhode Island, David Cole, and Lynette Labinger, cooperating counsel for the ACLU-RI, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court…

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EcoVadis Joins “Friends of EFRAG” to Accelerate Sustainability Reporting Maturity Across Europe, US, UK, and Japan

Stuart Mitchell

EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, has announced its partnership with the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) as part of the “Friends of EFRAG” group. This collaboration is built on a shared goal to promote consistent, trustworthy, and actionable sustainability reporting across industries, especially across global value chains. Most importantly, this partnership will reinforce interoperability between the EcoVadis rating methodology and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) to simplify sustainability reporting and regulatory compliance.  As a purpose-driven organization under the Loi PACTE, EcoVadis is committed…

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