Day: 30 July 2025

New CATF analysis reveals energy poverty metrics fail to capture true costs for African households

Stuart Mitchell

A new paper from Clean Air Task Force (CATF), also published in Energy Economics, reveals that standard methods of measuring energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa significantly understate the true burden faced by households by failing to account for the high costs of coping with unreliable electricity – using Benin as a case study to illustrate these broader regional dynamics.   “These hidden costs are crushing families’ budgets,” said Prudence Dato, Lead Energy Economist at CATF. “Millions of people who appear to be out of energy poverty based on their electricity bills are,…

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Record-breaking Green Climate Fund Board meeting approves USD 1.225 billion for new projects, reforms accreditation model and invites bids to host regional presence

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board recently approved a record volume of climate finance for developing countries, green-lighting 17 new projects for climate action around the world. The USD 1.225 billion total is the largest amount approved at a single Board meeting, during a year in which the Fund is scaling up its activities in response to the global demands for climate finance. GCF now has a portfolio of 314 projects amounting to USD 18 billion in GCF resources, USD 67 billion including co-financing.  The projects will bring urgently needed…

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Greenpeace and elvis assemble high profile activists for nationwide billboard protest

Stuart Mitchell

‘They can’t arrest this billboard’ harnesses “safety” of OOH spaces to call for restoration of the public’s democratic right to protest The right to protest powers democracy. It’s behind many of the biggest leaps forward society has seen. In recent years however, people’s freedom to join peaceful demonstrations has been quietly eroded. New research published on 3rd July by Greenpeace shows an almost ten-fold rise in the number of arrests in London for conspiracy to cause public nuisance since 2019, but out of more than 600 arrests made, only 18…

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Deloitte Global and Global Fashion Agenda publish Fashion Impact Toolkit to help build resilience across textile sector’s value chain

Stuart Mitchell

The textile industry continues to face growing regulatory and market pressures to shift toward more sustainable and inclusive production models. Launched at the June Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2025, the Fashion Impact Toolkit provides an impact inventory and framework to help textile companies navigate sustainability  challenges. This interactive resource is designed for companies across the complex textile value chain, from raw material producers and retailers to recyclers and remanufacturers, and is applicable across major sub-sectors, including high-street fashion, luxury, footwear, sportswear, and textile manufacturing. It can serve as a…

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Fairtrade adds Türkiye to its list of producer countries

Stuart Mitchell

Fairtrade is pleased to announce that Türkiye is now a Fairtrade producer country, which means it has been added to the list of countries where raw materials for certified products can be sourced in Western Asia.    In March 2025, the Fairtrade International Board of Directors approved the expansion of the Fairtrade Geographical Scope Policy of Producer Certification to include Türkiye following numerous requests from member organisations to source hazelnuts.   To begin the process, Fairtrade Germany conducted a thorough analysis, in which they  evaluated Türkiye’s income per capita using data from…

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