Day: 5 May 2026

EcoVadis Accelerates Scope 3 Transparency, Adding Carbmee to Rapidly Expanding Carbon Data Network

Stuart Mitchell

EcoVadis, the global standard for resilient, sustainable supply chains, today announced the further expansion of its Carbon Data Network (CDN) with the addition of Carbmee as a new strategic partner. This development follows the recent announcement of EcoVadis’ partnership with Watershed. By uniting these new collaborators with established partners Sweep and Normative, EcoVadis is accelerating its mission to build the market’s most interconnected carbon ecosystem, bridging the “trust gap” in Scope 3 reporting by replacing industry averages with verified, supplier-specific primary data. “Meaningful climate action starts with data you can…

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The Kids Mental Health Foundation Partners with Filmmaker Soleil Moon Frye to Launch Documentary Short and National PSA Featuring Celebrity Voices for Mental Health Awareness Month

Stuart Mitchell

The Kids Mental Health Foundation is launching a powerful new awareness campaign, “Kids’ Mental Health Starts with Us”, for May’s Mental Health Awareness Month, led by acclaimed filmmaker and advocate Soleil Moon Frye.  This initiative includes a documentary short and national PSA that combines the reach of celebrity voices with cinematic storytelling to share authentic conversations around kids’ mental health and create lasting impact for families across the country. The “Kids’ Mental Health Starts with Us” awareness campaign brings together Malin Akerman, David & Christina Arquette, Lance Bass & Michael…

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Baristas are better trained than dementia staff

Stuart Mitchell

Baristas can receive more training to make great coffee than care workers receive to provide dementia care – a new report exposes alarming gaps in dementia training. Gaps in dementia training Huge injustices in dementia training revealed across social care: half of staff receive just one to two hours of dementia learning despite 70% of care home residents living with condition. These serious shortfalls in dementia training are leaving social care staff unprepared, unsupported, and putting people with dementia at risk of inadequate care. Over a third of staff lack…

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UK marketing budgets revised up to highest level in nearly two years

Stuart Mitchell

UK companies revised their marketing budgets up to the highest level in almost two years, despite wider geopolitical turmoil, according to the Q1 2026 IPA Bellwether Report, published on 16 April 2026. The latest survey, which was in field between 2-24 March 2026, reveals that a net balance of +7.3% of respondents revised their total marketing spend upwards in Q1, with 26.8% of panellists reporting an increase in marketing spend against 19.5% of the survey panel that recorded a reduction. This is up noticeably from a flatline net balance of…

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Large-scale pilot in Sweden explores new role for electric vehicles

Stuart Mitchell

Vattenfall and Energy Bank, together with Volkswagen, are launching one of the world’s largest pilot projects for bidirectional charging. Around 200 chargers will be installed across central and southern Sweden to test how electric vehicles can support flexibility and stability in the power system. The electricity system is undergoing rapid change, with rising demand and a growing share of weather-dependent generation. This increases the need for flexible resources that can help balance supply and demand in real time. Bidirectional charging – also known as vehicle-to-grid (V2G) – allows electric vehicles…

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