Day: 1 December 2025

Recording-breaking year for Alzheimer’s Research UK’s flagship walking event

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands joined Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Walk For A Cure series across the UK Eight walking events – six 5km routes and two multi-distance hikes – saw a total of 3,328 supporters walking with and in honour of their loved ones. The 5km events took place in Leeds, London, Poole, Birmingham, Cardiff, and Edinburgh while hikers enjoyed longer walks in the Peak District and the Cotswolds. Together, families, friends and colleagues raised an incredible total of over £500,000 to fund dementia research – making this year’s Walk For A Cure the…

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GCF and partners catalyse USD 600 million to boost adaptation finance

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), along with its partners MUFG Bank Ltd. (MUFG) and FinDev Canada, have achieved a major milestone in scaling private investment for adaptation with the USD 600 million first closure of the GAIA Climate Loan Fund. GAIA will principally provide loans to adaptation projects in markets most severely impacted by, and least equipped to respond to, climate change, helping to bridge the estimated USD 300 billion annual adaptation finance gap in developing countries most vulnerable to climate impacts. The climate loan fund, co-founded by MUFG, Japan’s…

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GFI launches “Transactions to Transitions” initiative as a scalable, approach to accelerate economic transformation and resilience

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Finance Institute (GFI) has announced the launch of “Transactions to Transitions” (T2T), a pioneering approach designed to address the urgent need to accelerate climate finance execution and drive sector-wide economic transition. Despite ambitious commitments from governments and financial institutions, existing capital flows cover a fraction of the investment required to transform sectors, deploy technology, or deliver the promised transition to a sustainable, healthier, resilient future, especially in emerging and developing markets. T2T sets out a new approach, moving from climate politics to climate economics, and from alignment on…

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where funding cuts are putting half a million children’s futures at risk

Stuart Mitchell

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited Bangladesh this week to see the impact of severe cuts to official development assistance (ODA) on the half a million children living in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.  During the four-day visit, Bloom met with children, families, and aid workers to understand the scale of the funding challenges threatening children’s education, health, protection, and survival in the world’s largest refugee camps.  “The children in these camps are 100 per cent dependent on aid, but that aid is sadly shrinking,” said Bloom. “I met…

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Carbon Clean and SAMSUNG E&A form innovative alliance to accelerate global deployment of carbon capture solutions

Stuart Mitchell

Carbon Clean, a global leader in cost-effective industrial carbon capture technology, and SAMSUNG E&A, a world-class engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company, recently announced an innovative alliance to deliver modular, scalable carbon capture solutions for industries worldwide. The partnership brings together Carbon Clean’s patented CycloneCC™ technology, a fully modular, columnless carbon capture system, with SAMSUNG E&A’s deep EPC expertise and AHEAD execution model to deliver compact, pre-fabricated systems that can be deployed faster, at lower cost, and with minimal site disruption. By integrating Carbon Clean’s advanced amine-promoted buffer salt solvent…

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