Author: Stuart Mitchell

Apple expands renewable energy projects across Europe

Stuart Mitchell

Apple is significantly expanding its clean energy projects across Europe with new large-scale solar and wind farms now in development in Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Romania. Together with a newly operational solar array in Spain, the projects announced today — all enabled by Apple — will add 650 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to electrical grids across Europe in the coming years, unlocking more than $600 million in financing. This will generate over 1 million megawatt-hours of clean electricity on behalf of Apple users by 2030. As part of…

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PepsiCo Launches Inaugural Global Farmer Awards, Honoring the Backbone of its Agricultural Supply Chain

Stuart Mitchell

Last month PepsiCo celebrated the heroes behind the food system with the launch of its first-ever Global Farmer Awards, honoring outstanding farmers, farming families and advisors from across its global supply chain. Held at PepsiCo’s headquarters in Purchase, NY, the first-of-its-kind celebration brought together nearly 60 farmers and advisors from 19 countries to recognize their achievements in sustainability, innovation and leadership in agriculture. As one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, PepsiCo’s business is rooted in agriculture—sourcing more than 50 crops and ingredients from over 60 countries. The…

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United We Dream, ACLU, and Partners Launch Historic $30 Million Dollar Fund to Scale Up Access to Lawyers for Families Fighting Wrongful Detention, Deportation

Stuart Mitchell

United We Dream (UWD), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Abundant Futures Fund (AFF), have joined forces to launch the Defending Our Neighbors Fund: a bold new initiative that will scale up crucial financial support to legal organizations all across the country. Housed within AFF, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund will help ensure immigrant families facing the threat of separation and wrongful detention and deportations have access to lawyers. Already, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund has raised over $10 million with the goal of raising a total of at…

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Scaling up transition finance can support efforts to tackle emissions in key sectors and countries

Stuart Mitchell

New report explores landscape for transition finance and how it could help channel capital towards hard-to-abate industries As countries, companies and industries in many parts of the world look to reduce their emissions, transition finance can play an important role in mobilising the capital needed for energy projects that support these ambitions, according to a new IEA report published today. Scaling Up Transition Finance examines the potential for expanding the use of this financing mechanism, whose uptake has so far been slowed by challenges associated with defining it. It finds that…

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Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024

Stuart Mitchell

  The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin said continued emissions of CO2 from human activities and an upsurge from wildfires were responsible, as well as reduced CO2 absorption by “sinks” such as land ecosystems and the ocean – in what threatens to be a vicious climate cycle.   Growth rates of CO2 have tripled since the 1960s, accelerating from an annual average increase of 0.8 ppm per year to 2.4 ppm per year in the decade from 2011 to 2020. From 2023 to 2024, the global average concentration of CO2 surged…

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