Day: 7 July 2025

Asda invests £1.3m to expand electric home delivery fleet

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it will more than double its electric grocery home shopping fleet, taking its fleet to 194 vehicles as the retailer continues to invest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions across its business. Rolling out this month, Asda will invest £1.3m into launching an additional 112 home delivery vans and charging points for its vans at stores across the UK. By September, 21 Asda stores across the UK will operate a fully electric home delivery van fleet. Across these 21 stores, the electric vehicles are expected to make over…

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Proposed repeals of power plant carbon pollution and hazardous air pollutant standards threaten public health and the climate

Stuart Mitchell

Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to repeal two regulations that it finalized last year: the carbon pollution standards existing coal-fired and new gas-fired power plants and the strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal-fired power plants.   “These regressive proposals are bad for public health and bad for climate, all to prop up some of the highest polluting power plants in the nation,” said Shaun Goho, legal director at Clean Air Task Force (CATF). “These standards were put in place for a reason – to fulfill…

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South Africa’s Export Engine at Risk as Biggest Markets go Clean

Stuart Mitchell

South Africa’s trade-oriented economy faces mounting risks as companies decarbonise supply chains and countries begin to impose penalties on carbon-intensive imports. A new report from the Net Zero Tracker, Carbon Competitiveness: South Africa at the Net Zero–Trade Nexus, finds that the country’s coal-dependent power grid — which drives up embodied CO2 emissions (1) — makes it uniquely vulnerable, threatening billions in export revenue and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Key findings: 78% of South Africa’s $135 billion in exports go to countries with net zero targets — supporting 1.2 million…

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Danone launches the Iron Up! program to accelerate its efforts in the fight against Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children

Stuart Mitchell

Danone announces the launch of Iron Up! the first global program of its kind set up to supercharge the company’s efforts to combat iron deficiency in children. Iron deficiency is the leading cause of anemia, a condition affecting more than 40% of children under five globally. Despite its prevalence, iron deficiency anemia remains often undetected and undertreated due to low awareness of its symptoms and causes, insufficient screening, and suboptimal nutrition. “At Danone we are convinced nutrition can make a positive, proven difference to health especially in those early years”…

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Fund Managers Still Drive Twice as Much Investment to Fossil Fuels as Clean Energy

Stuart Mitchell

Global fund managers are driving twice as much capital investment into fossil fuels as they are into low-carbon energy supply, according to new analysis by BloombergNEF (BNEF). For every $1 of capital expenditure attributed to investment funds around the world that backed oil, natural gas or coal assets, just 48 cents went into low-carbon capex, the BNEF analysis showed. The report analyzes almost 70,000 funds and introduces a new method for investors to quantify and measure climate alignment of their portfolios. BNEF’s Energy Supply Fund-Enabled Capex Ratio (ESFR) is a…

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