Day: 2 October 2026

Cape Town to host Africa and the Middle East’s creative community for Loeries Creative Week 2026

Stuart Mitchell

The people shaping the creative identity of Africa and the Middle East will gather in the City of Cape Town from 4 to 9 October for Loeries Creative Week 2026, a six-day programme bringing together creative professionals, brands, agencies, marketers, media, educators and emerging talent from across the region. More than an awards event, Loeries Creative Week creates a meeting point for the ideas, conversations and relationships that move the creative industry forward. It combines the recognition of outstanding work with opportunities to learn from leading creative thinkers, encounter new…

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GGGI and UNESCAP Host Seoul Expert Consultation on Aligning K-ETS with Article 6 and Asia Regional Carbon Markets

Stuart Mitchell

As part of the ongoing 2026 CJK and Southeast Asia Carbon Market Collaboration initiative, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in collaboration with UNESCAP, recently convened a targeted technical expert consultation workshop in Seoul to foster Asia regional carbon market alignment. Supported by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the closed expert session brought together key policymakers, industry stakeholders, and the initiative’s Expert Working Group (EWG) to review and refine technical policy pathways for compliance carbon markets. Operating under the overarching series theme, “Catalyzing Regional Climate Resilience and Innovative Financing…

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Tesco & In Kind Direct unlock over 6 million hygiene products for families in need, over 4-year partnership

Stuart Mitchell

In Kind Direct, the UK’s leading product giving charity, and Tesco have partnered together since September 2022 to run their ‘Buy 2, we’ll donate 1’ campaign and this spring, ran the campaign for the sixth time. Designed to unlock product donations from some of the leading hygiene brands, the partnership has supported families across the country gain access to over 6 million essential hygiene products.  This year, the campaign included products from seventeen leading hygiene brands, Pampers, Andrex, Kleenex, Tena, Bodyform, Simple, Aquafresh, Sensodyne, Domestos, Sure, Dove, Surf, Wilkinson-Sword, Persil, Corsodyl, Vaseline, and Comfort. Resulting in over 1.33 million personal care and household hygiene items being donated across just eight-weeks. Across the 4-year partnership,…

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