Category: Ethical News (non Marketing)

Top companies signal major demand for EVs as automakers gather in Geneva

Stuart Mitchell

The need for the auto industry to speed up the switch to electric vehicles increased further, as national postal companies Swiss Post and Austrian Post committed to electrify their delivery fleets by 2030. The national flagship companies – delivering daily postal services to millions of customers in Austria and Switzerland – have joined the global electric vehicles initiative EV100 which aims to make electric transport ‘the new normal’ by 2030.   EV100 is led by The Climate Group, the international non-profit focused on accelerating climate action. Other new members announced…

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New law in Albania will provide low-cost housing for domestic violence survivors

Stuart Mitchell

“Why doesn’t she leave?” is a frustratingly common question asked of women in abusive relationships. The question is often followed with disbelief—if it was really so bad, wouldn’t she have left? Ask Silva Kaca* why she didn’t leave, for years, and she will tell you about one of the biggest roadblocks that many women in Albania, and elsewhere in the world face, as they try to leave an abusive partner—housing. Kaca was married for 22 years and had two daughters with her abusive partner. The girls would stop playing and…

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Top FMCGs in race to keep up with conscious consumers

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s top FMCGs including Nestlé, Coca Cola and P&G are in a race to adapt to rapidly changing consumer trends, including a rise in veganism and increasing activism on plastic packaging. This is revealed in a new report ‘Fast Moving Consumers’ from environmental non-profit and investment research provider CDP . The report ranks 16 of the largest and publicly listed Food and Beverage and Household and Personal Care companies on business readiness for a low carbon transition. The life cycle environmental impact of products from the industry is significant…

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Scotland Launch Saltire Tidal Energy Challenge Fund

Stuart Mitchell

A £10 million fund will target support to achieving commercial deployment of tidal energy generation in Scottish waters through driving innovation and reduction in the cost of electricity generated. This concentrated support for tidal energy sits alongside the parallel £30 million committed to date by the Scottish Government to Wave Energy Scotland (WES), and a further £10 million proposed for WES in 2019/20. “Scotland continues to lead the world in developing and supporting marine energy technology, with the European Marine Energy Centre on Orkney recognised as a global centre of…

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Greenhouse gases from Scottish industry at a 10 year low

Stuart Mitchell

The figures, published online in the 2017 Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI), show how the pollutants emitted by Scottish regulated businesses are changing as the country continues to move to a more sustainable, resource efficient Scotland. We place pressures on the Scottish environment in our daily lives, from dealing with our sewage and waste to the demand for goods like petrol, plastics, food and drink. Scottish industry also puts pressures on the environment through emissions to the air and water environment and through waste management activities. GHG levels have reduced…

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