Author: Stuart Mitchell

ICAS announces winners of the 2025 Global Awards at Annual Meetings in Mumbai

Stuart Mitchell

On 17 March 2025, the International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (ICAS) held its Global Awards Ceremony during the ICAS annual meetings  in Mumbai, India. The ICAS Awards reward initiatives that contribute to responsible marketing practices and a more effective and impactful self-regulatory system. In 2025, a new award category, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, was launched in collaboration with the Unstereotype Alliance. All entries were reviewed and winners selected by an international independent jury of self-regulatory experts, chaired by Jeffrey A. Greenbaum, Chairman of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) and Managing Partner of Frankfurt Kurnit…

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Housing provider launches £25,000 healthy eating initiative

Stuart Mitchell

A NEW initiative aims to promote healthy eating, combat isolation and strengthen community ties in underserved areas. Bield Housing & Care has announced a new project designed to support tenants in underserved communities by offering access to nutritious food, practical guidance on healthy living and an opportunity to connect with neighbours. Funded by a generous £25,000 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, the community pantry project will focus on developments that do not currently offer meal services, ensuring Bield extends its impact across its network of tenants. The initiative…

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New Carbon Data Standards Initiative to Aid and Scale Carbon Markets

Stuart Mitchell

A group of 30 leading businesses, nonprofits and public sector organizations have joined forces to help facilitate and scale carbon markets by launching an open, multi-stakeholder initiative to develop a protocol that harmonizes the definitions and rules that standardize data describing carbon crediting projects and carbon credits across markets, geographies and activity types.      The group’s Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) aims to create the processes and definitions for greater standardization, transparency and fungibility to improve integrity and dramatically scale carbon markets, according to the committee-led initiative’s four co-chairs, The Global…

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UK Schoolchildren dissuaded from climate action due to bullying and peer pressure

Stuart Mitchell

Research released today by education charity, Another Way, has revealed that students actively involved in climate change projects in their schools/colleges are being prevented from taking part in initiatives due to peer pressure and bullying from classmates. The findings have found a pervasive culture of fear and intimidation in schools for those trying to take action. Over half (59%) of secondary school children surveyed have experienced negative impacts as a result of being involved in environmental initiatives, with a quarter (25.8%) facing teasing or verbal bullying and over one in…

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WARC Rankings 2025: Media 100 is now released! The world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media

Stuart Mitchell

The WARC Media 100, the ultimate independent global benchmark of the world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media, is now released. Compiled by WARC Creative, helping companies deliver creative marketing that works, the annual Media 100 Ranking is an aggregate of the results of the most important global and regional media awards of 2024. The shows tracked are determined in consultation with the WARC Rankings Advisory Board and by a yearly global panel survey. Anna Hamill, Senior Editor, WARC Creative, said: “The WARC Media 100 are annual worldwide league…

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