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Six weeks’ paid leave for fathers could boost the economy — and reduce relationship breakdowns

Stuart Mitchell

A new report released recently – Economic and Social Benefits of Enhanced Paternity Leave: Scoping Review – from King’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership in partnership with Equimundo: Center for Masculinities & Social Justice, reveals that some of the strongest evidence was the link between longer and more generous, protected leave for dads and a reduction in relationship breakdowns after birth. Iceland saw a drop of couple separations of 12 percentage points after the country added four weeks of non-transferable “daddy quota” on top of its existing parental leave settlement…

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Syklo’s factory complex unique on a world scale now produces high-quality recycled plastic pellets and biocomposite

Stuart Mitchell

Finnish circular economy company Syklo Group officially opens its complete Hyvinkää circular economy hub today. The hub combines Finland’s largest plastic recycling plant with an industrial-scale biocomposite facility. The total investment is 70–80 million euros, making it unique in scale on an international level. The plastic recycling plant can process 50,000 tonnes of plastic waste every year. This is material that would otherwise be incinerated or sent to landfill. The plant alone raises Finland’s plastic recycling capacity by 50%. It also cuts Finland’s calculated greenhouse gas emissions by more than…

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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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