Month: October 2025

Amazon’s You Buy. We Donate campaign returns to help customers donate hygiene products to families in need

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon’s You Buy. We Donate campaign is returning to help end hygiene poverty in the UK. From now until 12 November, for every two eligible products purchased by customers on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon and its supplier partners—including Colgate, Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena, and Sanex—will donate a third item at no additional cost to shoppers via the Multibank charity. What is a Multibank? Find out how Amazon is helping get surplus goods to those in need Amazon and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown are setting up donation hubs that distribute essential goods to families…

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Green tech boosted as UK finance institutions pilot sustainability innovations

Stuart Mitchell

Financial sector unites to help drive the sector’s journey to net zero. Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group, Coventry Building Society, Skipton Building Society and Leeds Building Society (all members of the Sustainable Business Consortium) collaborate to scale innovation in sustainability at pace Wates to act as the catalyst to help the sector achieve its net-zero ambitions faster Recently, a group of five UK banks and building societies named nine sustainability innovations they will be piloting across their estates: Winners: Coltraco Ultrasonics – Portascanner AIRTIGHT (handheld airtightness testing device) Smartcool – Panoramic Power (energy management)…

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First Minister performs official opening of new Energy Transition Skills Hub

Stuart Mitchell

Scotland’s largest Energy Transition Skills Hub, boasting a state-of-the-art welding academy, advanced manufacturing zone and future technology digital training suites, was officially opened in Aberdeen last month by First Minister John Swinney MSP. The brand new £10 million facility, on the site of a dilapidated former dairy, is the transformational anchor project of the Skills Campus in the city’s Energy Transition Zone and will support 1,000 people into jobs with a focus on energy transition in the first five years of its operation. Last month’s event marks the official handover…

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Canon Celebrates Young Champions Driving Global Sustainability at 2025 Global Good Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Canon Europe Middle East & Africa, a world-leading imaging company, has announced the winners of the Canon Young Champion of the Year category at the 2025 Global Good Awards. The Canon Young Champion of the Year category is the only dedicated youth title at the Global Good Awards, an event that celebrates businesses, NGOs, charities and social enterprises globally for their pioneering work in purpose-driven sustainability and ethical leadership. The category recognises young leaders who are driving positive change across all areas of sustainability, inspiring action from others through their…

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Urgent action needed by retailers to prevent further nature and biodiversity loss

Stuart Mitchell

Retailers must urgently address the accelerating loss of nature and biodiversity or they risk jeopardising supply chain resilience, according to a new report by the British Retail Consortium (BRC).  These warnings come as this flagship report, “Planning for Nature” reveals that three quarters (76%) of retailers have no targets on protecting nature. The report marks the beginning of the industry’s journey in halting and reversing nature loss by 2030 and achieving full recovery by 2050.  But it unveils the scale of the challenge ahead. Half of retailers (52%) are yet to make…

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