Author: Stuart Mitchell

Bezos family announces an up to US$500 million challenge for UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Fund to address global child and maternal undernutrition

Stuart Mitchell

Recently, global nutrition leaders met in Paris at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit to discuss how to improve access to life-saving child and maternal nutrition. To significantly address the urgent needs of the most at-risk women and children, UNICEF, in collaboration with the Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the UK government and other private and public partners, established the CNF in 2023 with a goal of raising US$2 billion by 2030. Currently, the World Bank estimates that an additional US$13 billion per year over the next…

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RESTORE announces new finance from Triodos Bank UK to help scale its natural capital services

Stuart Mitchell

RESTORE, a nature restoration company, has partnered with Triodos Bank UK on a new finance arrangement to help expand its services and grow its team. The finance will facilitate a significant step for the organisation as RESTORE scales from an embedded rewilding consultancy to a comprehensive nature restoration business, designing and delivering bespoke 100-year natural capital products. With this transformation, it aims to help clients to accelerate their land transitions and ultimately provide more protection for nature across the UK. Founded in 2023, RESTORE works with landowners, farmers and NGOs…

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CAP – Staying on the right side of the line – updated guidance to make sure your ads don’t offend

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Staying on the right side of the line – updated guidance to make sure your ads don’t offend. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Legal, decent, honest and truthful…. Although complaints that ads are offensive are only a small proportion of those investigated by the ASA, the media coverage and criticism those investigations generate mean…

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Microsoft and FieldFactors partner to harness stormwater in Madrid

Stuart Mitchell

Microsoft is collaborating with Dutch start-up FieldFactors to replenish a natural stream using rainwater collected from a major new urban development. Called Solana de Valdebebas, the development covers more than one million square meters and will include almost 1,400 residential units. The initiative has the capacity to capture up to 200 million liters of stormwater run-off annually, which will be replenished into the local Valdebebas stream, a tributary of the Jarama River. Rainwater will be collected through FieldFactors’ sustainable drainage system, called BlueBloqs, which can capture up to 95% of…

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edie and Brook Green launch new guide to sustainable energy procurement

Stuart Mitchell

Produced by edie in partnership with Brook Green Supply, the new ‘Business Guide to Energy Procurement on the Road to Net-Zero’ is a handy resource for businesses of all sizes and sectors. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS YOUR COPY OF THE GUIDE While the energy transition gathers pace in the UK, buoyed by supportive policy, many businesses are still grappling with volatile energy prices and high inflation. Many are also striving to decarbonise more rapidly than the wider economy, setting targets covering Scope 2 (power-related) emissions sources. Designing and implementing the…

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