Day: 14 November 2025

New King’s Trust Report Finds Ai Set To Transform Over Half Of Jobs Held By Young People In UK

Stuart Mitchell

The King’s Trust has launched the findings of new research commissioned with Public First on the impact of AI on young people’s employment. The new economic modelling and large-scale polling has produced a detailed analysis of how AI is likely to affect young people’s place in the labour market.    The report’s economic modelling finds the impact that AI could have in making the roles young people hold more productive would be worth up to £16 billion to the UK economy. However, the roles held by young people that are at…

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Can North American and EU clothing pass the durability test? WRAP expands global clothing investigation

Stuart Mitchell

With demand for water and land use from clothing production the third largest drain on the EU supplies in 2020 – and the fifth most significant influence on raw material use and greenhouse gas emissions – WRAP has thrown down the gauntlet to the biggest and best EU and US clothing brands to make the most of these resources by designing apparel that lasts longer, and lowers the fashion industry’s enormous environmental footprint.  WRAP is expanding its ground-breaking Durability Accelerator Initiative, focusing on the global catwalk, to test if North…

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BRE joins global partnership to align sustainable building materials

Stuart Mitchell

The Building Research Establishment (BRE), The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), mindful MATERIALS, the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) have today announced a new international partnership to create consistency across rating systems including BREEAM, Green Star, LEED, Living Building Challenge and WELL.  Construction is responsible for more than half of the world’s raw materials extraction. Yet the tools and frameworks used to measure the impacts of building products often differ, creating confusion and duplication for manufacturers,…

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Canada, Singapore and UK Among Countries Most Prepared for Climate Change, BloombergNEF’s New Ranking of Climate Adaptation Preparedness Finds

Stuart Mitchell

BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) new analysis of major economies shows Canada, Singapore and South Korea are leading when it comes to preparedness to adapt to a changing climate, with Saudi Arabia and Russia among the least prepared. Climate-driven damages are increasing worldwide and harming human health, economic development, and regional security. Global losses topped $1.4 trillion last year, almost 10x the total in 2000 according to data from Bloomberg Intelligence. With the world off track to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C warming  goal, future damages can worsen unless economies and societies adapt.…

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World Breaks Renewable Records but Must Move Faster to Hit 2030 Tripling Goal

Stuart Mitchell

The world is falling behind on its renewable energy and efficiency goals despite record progress last year, confirms a new report released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the COP30 Brazilian Presidency, and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) during a pre-COP30 high-level event in Brasília. In 2024, global renewable capacity additions reached an unprecedented 582 GW. Yet this is still not enough to stay on track for the COP28 UAE Consensus target of tripling renewables to 11.2 TW by 2030. Meeting that goal now demands a staggering 1…

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