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Cascale and Worldly Release Policy Deep Dive on EU Product-Level Environmental Disclosures

Stuart Mitchell

Cascale, the global nonprofit alliance advancing collaboration to drive equitable and restorative business practices in the consumer goods industry, and Worldly, the leading sustainability data and analytics platform for the consumer goods industry, today released a new policy deep dive: One Market, Two Systems – What PEFCR and France’s Environmental Cost Mean for Apparel & Footwear. This publication explores two emerging regulatory frameworks: the EU Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for apparel and footwear, and France’s Environmental Cost (Coût Environnemental). Both are poised to shape product-level environmental disclosures across…

M&S Funding New Industry-First Innovation Projects

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer, the UK’s most trusted brand, has announced new pioneering projects to support its journey to net zero by 2040.   With targets now revalidated by the SBTi, M&S has a clear glidepath to becoming net zero across the entire supply chain by 2040. The biggest challenge in achieving these targets – a full ten years earlier that the Governments UK-wide strategy – is in the supply chain, where 95% of emissions sit. To meet these targets, M&S created the Plan A Accelerator Fund to find innovative lower…

Smallholder cotton farmers can play a role in reversing biodiversity loss, reveals latest Cotton Paper

Stuart Mitchell

In the face of agrochemical overuse, the expansion of monocultures, and poor water management, biodiversity in cotton growing regions is under threat, reveals the latest Cotton Paper. Cotton and Biodiversity, a report by Solidaridad and the Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA), reveals that biodiversity in cotton growing regions is under threat across three levels: genetic, ecosystem, and species diversity. With around 35 million hectares under cotton cultivation globally, approximately 2.5 percent of Earth’s arable land, this threat should not be taken lightly, with the potential for cotton farming to play a…

CIPR announces 2025 Excellence Awards winners

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has honoured the industry’s finest campaigns, teams, and professionals at its 41st annual Excellence Awards, with four agencies and teams each securing double wins at the prestigious ceremony. Tin Man, Mischief, Stripe Communications, and Virgin Media 02 were tied for the most prolific organisations on the evening, each claiming two awards as over 400 PR and comms professionals joined magician and presenter, Ben Hanlin, at the Royal Lancaster London to celebrate the best in work in PR over the last 12 months. The…

Black-owned businesses make their TV debut thanks to Channel 4’s Black in Business Initiative with Lloyds

Stuart Mitchell

Four SME Black-owned businesses will today debut TV advertising for the first time, after winning the latest edition of Channel 4 Sales’ Black in Business initiative with Lloyds.  Open to Black entrepreneurs, the initiative saw the four winners emerge from an application process and a shortlist of 20 outstanding businesses. Each winner receives £150,000 worth of free advertising airtime on Channel 4, alongside six months of mentoring guidance from senior executive sponsors at Channel 4 and Lloyds, plus the creation of their own advert. The adverts will premiere together this…