Day: 20 May 2025

Amid uncertainty, global tax leaders are doubling down on transparency and digitalization, while sustainability’s impact grows: New Deloitte survey

Stuart Mitchell

As tax policy evolves on the global stage, Deloitte’s 2025 Global Tax Policy Survey gathered insights from more than 1,100 tax and finance executives across 28 countries, uncovering critical insights into the evolving landscape. The survey, now in its 12th year, revealed transparency and reporting and digitalization as enduring key priorities, while sustainability policy is having a growing impact on organizations amid ongoing regulatory uncertainty. “As they grapple with widespread uncertainty, global organizations are focusing on what they can control as the tax function undergoes significant policy shifts with the…

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Media price inflation trending towards long-term averages

Stuart Mitchell

The latest edition of Outlook, WFA’s global poll of media price inflation forecasts, suggests low-to-mid single digit inflation across all major regions. Globally, prices are expected to have risen by 4.0% year on year in 2024 and this will be followed by a further 4.1% increase in 2025. The new numbers are consistent with long-term averages, but will have a major impact on brand planning for the year ahead. One caveat is that this round of forecasts was collected shortly after the unveiling of the new US economic policy –…

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Just Earth: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) host launch event for Tony Juniper’s new book

Stuart Mitchell

CISL and CCI recently hosted an event to celebrate the launch of Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet, the latest book by Tony Juniper CBE.   Just Earth shows how inequality underpin the biodiversity and climate crises which are ravaging our planet – and the crises cannot be solved unless society deals with the unfairness and injustice faced by our most vulnerable communities.  Tony Juniper, Chair of Natural England and CISL Fellow, began by explaining how he came to write the book: “[Carbon emissions] have been…

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Biomass, a satellite to look inside the world’s forests like never before

Stuart Mitchell

Most of us learned in school that trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) during photosynthesis, store carbon in their cells, and release oxygen into the atmosphere. This process plays a significant role in the carbon cycle and helps regulate the Earth’s climate. However large-scale data on the amount of carbon stored in the world’s forests and how they are changing over time is not readily available.  This is where ESA’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite, built by Airbus, comes in. Set to launch in the coming days, this mission aims to fill…

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Patagonia honors explorer, conservationist with newest retail location in Argentina

Stuart Mitchell

Outdoor apparel company Patagonia’s newest retail location in Argentina is part store, part museum: Completed in 1916, the building was once home to explorer, mountaineer and environmentalist Emilio Frey and his wife, Rosa Schumacher. The 6-acre property was put on sale in 2014 after Nelly Schumacher’s passing. Since then, Frey’s descendants had been looking for a buyer that would conserve the home, known as Los Cipreses or Casa Frey, and honor Frey’s legacy as an advocate for nature and director of South America’s first national park. “This land inspired me…

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