Year: 2026

How The Hague is preparing for a future with rising seas

Stuart Mitchell

How can The Hague remain safe, liveable and attractive for future generations as sea levels continue to rise? To provide insights in the choices, the City of The Hague has developed a long-term vision for the city’s coastline, looking ahead to the year 2100 and beyond. By establishing its own perspective on water safety and resilience, The Hague is taking a leading role as a local partner in addressing water safety challenges, while recognising that the national government and regional water authorities remain primarily responsible. This approach helps ensure that…

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PRCA statement on disclosure and media engagement

Stuart Mitchell

Recent reporting in the Guardian has raised serious allegations about public affairs practitioners discussing payments to journalists in return for favourable coverage, potentially without those arrangements being disclosed. The PRCA Code of Conduct and Code for Professional Lobbying require members to act with honesty, openness and integrity, to make clear whose interests they represent, to ensure the source of information is identifiable and to avoid improper influence on the media. Our industry codes give clients, journalists and the public confidence that practitioners are working to defined standards and can be…

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Scientific Climate Ratings spotlights nations most at risk for economic fallout due to climate change

Stuart Mitchell

Scientific Climate Ratings, an EDHEC Business School venture, is proud to announce the creation of Sovereign Climate Risk Ratings, a new scientific standard for understanding and pricing the macroeconomic impact of rising temperatures on sovereign economies. Based on the academic research and expertise of the EDHEC Climate Institute and the in-depth market insights of Scientific Climate Ratings, Sovereign Climate Risk Ratings capture, for the first time, the winners and losers in a future global economy where the effects of chronic physical climate risk have real and lasting impacts on Gross…

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BASF collaboration goes beyond the bee count

Stuart Mitchell

The results of an eight-year study into the relationship between robust commercial farming and thriving pollinator populations have been published, coinciding with National Insect Week. Pollinators in Practice: Connecting crops and pollinators with practical on-farm solutions, a collaboration with farmers and researcher to connect crops and pollinators for practical on-farm solutions, was commissioned by BASF, and demonstrates that robust commercial farming and thriving pollinator populations can co-exist. Visiting every three to four weeks between 2018 and 2024, award-winning farmland ecologist Marek Nowakowski, who has been working with BASF for many…

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UNEP, partners ramp up efforts to address major methane leaks as UN chief urges rapid cuts

Stuart Mitchell

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bloomberg Philanthropies have announced efforts to help countries raise their response rate to major methane leaks around the world to 80 percent by 2030, ensuring that the causes of emissions seen from space are investigated and put on a path to mitigation. To date, only 10 early moving countries have achieved an 80 percent response rate. The announcement follows UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ call for urgent action to scale up methane mitigation, which underscores the importance of rapid reductions this decade across major emitting…

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