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IKEA to use bio-based glue for reduced climate footprint

Stuart Mitchell

To reduce the climate footprint of board production, IKEA is switching from fossil-based to bio-based glues. Today, 5% of the climate footprint of the total IKEA value chain is connected to the use of glue in board materials. With this change, the goal is to reduce fossil-based glue use by 40% and greenhouse gas emissions from glue by 30% by FY30. Finding new glue solutions is one of the main approaches to reducing the IKEA climate footprint, and most glue consumption is used in board production. As a result of…

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Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally

Stuart Mitchell

The number of children without access to social protection is increasing year-on-year, leaving them at risk of poverty, hunger and discrimination, according to a new report released by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF. More than a billion reasons: The urgent need to build universal social protection for children  warns that an additional 50 million children aged 0-15 missed out on a critical social protection provision – specifically, child benefits (paid in cash or tax credits) – between 2016 and 2020, driving up the total to 1.46 billion children…

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Colombia launches second Plastics Pact in Latin America

Stuart Mitchell

Colombia has become the second Latin American country to launch a Plastics Pact to tackle the environmental impacts of plastics and support international work developing a circular economy for plastics. The Colombia Plastics Pact was developed and launched through a partnership between The Business Commitment to Recycling (CEMPRE) and international climate action NGO WRAP with the support of UKRI. Colombia currently places upwards of 700,500 tonnes of plastic containers and packaging into the domestic market each year, but as little as 3% is reincorporated back into packaging. The Colombia Plastics Pact…

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A quarter of comms leaders refuse to embrace AI despite wave of interest – PRCA ICCO Confidence Tracker

Stuart Mitchell

One in four (25%) of PR leaders say they will never use AI tools, such as ChatGPT, according to the latest PRCA and ICCO Confidence Tracker published recently. CEOs, Directors, and Department Heads across five continents took part in the latest PRCA and ICCO quarterly Confidence Tracker, which assesses market confidence in public relations around the world. The study follows a recent surge in interest in AI within PR practice. Despite this interest, the majority of communications leaders appear slow to grasp its potential with more than half of respondents…

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Parliament must ‘get its act together’ and hold Liam Fox to account – PRCA

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association’s (PRCA) Public Affairs Board (PAB) has urged Parliament to hold MPs to account following another high-profile breach of ethical standards. According to the Observer, former Trade Secretary Liam Fox MP, wrote to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pressing for an export tax break that would benefit Global Britain Commission – a business group of which Fox is Chairman and receives remuneration. PRCA Public Affairs Chair, Liam Herbert FPRCA commented: “If these claims are right, Liam Fox’s actions were inexcusable. It is wholly unacceptable for parliamentarians…

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