Day: 9 October 2026

TMC Strategic Communications becomes CIM Company Affiliate Partner to strengthen marketing capability

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and TMC Strategic Communications (TMC) have announced a formal partnership, which sees the Cheshire-based agency join CIM’s Company Affiliate Partnership Programme. The partnership brings together CIM’s professional development expertise with TMC’s established commitment to Chartership and continuous learning, providing the agency with access to team-wide CIM membership, bespoke training programmes and preferential rates on development solutions. The collaboration supports the agency’s commitment to long-term marketing excellence, as they unlock access to a full spectrum of CIM resources at scale. The agreement forms part of…

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August was the world’s joint hottest month on record, pushing global temperatures back above 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels

Stuart Mitchell

August 2026 was the joint warmest month ever recorded, tied with July 2023. Last month also saw the average sea surface temperature (SST) over the extra-polar ocean reach a record high, due to global heating from burning fossil fuels and rapidly increasing SSTs in the equatorial Pacific associated with strong El Niño conditions – as reported by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). With a global average surface air temperature 1.65°C higher than the estimated pre-industrial baseline, this August was the first month to exceed 1.5°C since…

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The World Food Prize Foundation Will Attempt to Break World Record for Most Hunger Relief Meals Packaged in One Hour

Stuart Mitchell

The World Food Prize Foundation has announced it will attempt to break the world record for the most hunger relief meals packaged in one hour on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, during the Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue in Des Moines.  The Foundation will gather volunteers at the Iowa Events Center’s EMC Expo Center with a goal to package 600,000 meals. The current world record is 530,064 meals, but the Foundation, working in partnership with Meals from the Heartland, aims to unite thousands of individuals to surpass this number.  While the…

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Just two new data centres will pump out more planet-heating carbon emissions than ExxonMobil – Foxglove analysis

Stuart Mitchell

2026 is already the hottest year ever the UK has ever seen, and heatwaves this summer have reportedly led to the deaths of around 30,000 people in Europe alone so far.   For anyone living through this brutal demonstration of climate disaster in action the idea of building new gas power plants to burn more fossil fuel, blasting gigantic amounts of new carbon into our air to power AI data centres, may seem absurd and unhinged, like throwing petrol on a blazing wildfire or the actions of a cackling cartoon supervillain.  But that is exactly what Big Tech bosses around the world are proposing to do. In the US, Elon Musk plans to build 41 new gas turbines at xAI’s “Colossus 2” data centre in northern Mississippi. So…

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SAITEX Releases 2025 Impact Report

Stuart Mitchell

“We don’t believe better ways of working should be guarded. We believe they should be shared, tested and improved. Our Impact Report is about passing on what we’ve learned, because good ideas are meant to travel.” – Sanjeev Bahl, CEO, SAITEX Regarded by Bloomberg as the “Cleanest Denim Factory in the World,” SAITEX today releases its 2025 Impact Report. Rather than presenting sustainability goals, the report documents operational metrics, engineering decisions, manufacturing systems, and lessons learned. Download the 2025 SAITEX Impact Report: HERE Across its vertically integrated operations in Vietnam…

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