Day: 19 April 2026

Pioneering nature market standards released for adoption

Stuart Mitchell

Pioneering standards designed to bring clarity and consistency to nature markets are now ready for widespread adoption, in the latest stage of a programme led by BSI, and supported by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), the devolved administrations, and industry. In March 2025, BSI, the UK’s National Standards Body, released a set of overarching principles, BSI Flex 701v2.0, which provided a foundation across all UK nature markets. It set out core requirements for designing, operating, generating, trading, and storing nature credits, aiming to enable the high…

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Companion Launches ‘Creator Payments’ to Streamline Creator Onboarding for Brands and Provide Early Pay to Creators

Stuart Mitchell

Billion Dollar Boy Group, global leaders in creator-led brand building, today announces the launch of Creator Payments, a new integrated service designed to automate creator payments and vendor onboarding for brands at scale, via its proprietary SaaS platform, Companion. Creator Payments, in partnership with payment platform Lumanu, streamlines one of the most complex and operationally intensive areas of creator marketing, including payment workflows, creator onboarding and compliance to reduce friction for brand teams and creators. The service also includes Early Pay, an optional feature offering creators greater flexibility and certainty…

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PepsiCo hits dual water milestones: 100% replenishment and adopting the AWS standard across company-owned facilities in high water-risk areas

Stuart Mitchell

In the lead-up to World Water Day, PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) today announced it achieved two of its 2025 pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) water goals: Replenishing 100% of the water used at all company-owned facilities located in high water-risk watersheds. Reaching 100% water replenishment means that for every liter of water PepsiCo uses at these facilities, we are restoring the equivalent amount or more back into natural water resources in that watershed through nature-based conservation and wetland restoration projects, water infrastructure initiatives and on-farm irrigation efficiency efforts. Fully adopting the Alliance…

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Droga5 shines a light on the threats to marine conservation through a series of handcrafted original screen-printed artworks

Stuart Mitchell

Droga5 São Paulo, award-winning creative advertising agency, today announces the second phase of “Lifeless Flag”, a campaign created for SOS Oceano (SOS Ocean), a coalition of NGOs advocating for the expansion of marine protected areas. The first phase of the campaign, launched at Rio Ocean Week in October 2025, removed the blue and green from the Brazilian flag to demonstrate that one ecosystem cannot exist without the other. One needs blue to create green, and that without the blue of the oceans, there is no green life on land. This…

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Dawsongroup vans Launches Whitepaper Revealing the Charging Challenges Stalling UK Fleet Electrification

Stuart Mitchell

Commercial vehicle rental specialist, Dawsongroup vans, has launched a new whitepaper looking at why charging infrastructure is holding back electric vehicle adoption across the UK’s light commercial vehicle (LCV) sector. The ‘Charging Ahead’ whitepaper, based on data from Dawsongroup’s EV Readiness Survey of fleet operators across the UK, uncovers a disconnect between perceived readiness and actual implementation. While 53% of respondents believe their premises are suitable for EV charging infrastructure, only 27% have actually installed chargers on site. Meanwhile, 47% remain either unsure of their suitability or consider their premises…

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