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Amazon opens carbon credit service to qualified UK companies working to reduce their climate impact

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has announced that its carbon credit service is now available to qualified UK companies – the first time the programme has expanded beyond the United States since launching there last year.   Available through the Sustainability Exchange, the service is designed for companies that have already committed to meaningful decarbonisation and want to go further.    Even the most ambitious companies face a challenge in eliminating every gram of greenhouse gas they produce. After making all practical cuts, such as switching to carbon-free energy, electrifying vehicle fleets, and redesigning supply chains, residual emissions remain stubbornly difficult to remove. Carbon neutralisation counterbalances those remaining emissions by investing in projects elsewhere that…

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BBC and AHRC select New Generation Thinkers 2026

Stuart Mitchell

Five of the UK’s most promising early-career academics have been selected as this year’s New Generation Thinkers to help shape Radio 4 programming. Every year, the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) hold a nationwide search for the best new arts and humanities academics with ideas that will resonate with a wider audience. These New Generation Thinkers represent some of the best early career researchers in the country. They will benefit from training and development with AHRC. They will also spend a year being mentored by producers…

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UNICEF names Lamine Yamal as a Goodwill Ambassador

Stuart Mitchell

18-year-old Barcelona and Spain football star Lamine Yamal has been announced as UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador, championing every child’s right to play. The appointment was made on International Day of Play, marked annually on 11 June to recognise play as essential to children’s cognitive, social, and physical development – and on the opening day of the FIFA World Cup, where Lamine will represent his national team, Spain. “I am incredibly proud to become a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador,” said Lamine. “Growing up, all I had was a family, a ball, a…

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Blown away! Octopus’s new ‘Collective’ wind turbine sells out in record time

Stuart Mitchell

Brits are rushing to back homegrown clean power, with record demand for a new wind turbine investment in Cornwall on Octopus Energy’s platform ‘the Collective’. The opportunity sold out in just over an hour, raising £550,000 in the investment platform’s fastest sell-out yet – as more people look to back Britain’s green energy future and directly benefit from it. Launched last year, the Collective became the UK’s first FCA-regulated retail investment platform by an energy company. A major step in democratising clean energy ownership, it allows people to directly invest…

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M&S Launches 1,000 Training Places for Young People Across Stores – With no Degree Required

Stuart Mitchell

M&S has announced Not Just Any Career, a new initiative that will create 1,000 training places for young people across the UK and Ireland. Designed to open opportunities for people at the start of their careers, the programme will focus on leadership skills, hands-on experience, and clear pathways into a retail career for life. Applicants will not need a degree to take part. Both M&S colleagues and external candidates can apply, from school leavers upwards, specifically aimed at 18–24-year-olds. The programme responds to the growing youth unemployment challenge by giving…

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