Climate action NGO WRAP publishes its annual updates of its voluntary agreements for the food, plastics and textiles sectors. The publication comes with a stark warning that while the UK is making some progress in tackling key environmental issues, a lot more collaboration and action is needed from businesses to achieve the level of change required, and to keep climate goals within reach. WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles. WRAP has…
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Capital.com signs strategic agreement with Refinitiv to accelerate sustainable investing among retail investors
High-growth European investment trading platform, Capital.com, recently announced a strategic agreement with Refinitiv, a (LSEG) London Stock Exchange Group Business, to provide investors and traders with environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. With this agreement, traders can directly access ESG scores and financial data from the Capital.com platform to help them make sustainable investment and trading decisions. Refinitiv offers one of the most comprehensive ESG databases in the industry, underpinned by more than 450 different ESG metrics. It measures a company’s relative ESG performance, commitment and effectiveness across 10 main…
One in four companies are keeping quiet on science-based targets
New global research from South Pole, a world-leading climate project developer and solutions provider, has found that one in four of surveyed companies with science-based targets will not be publicising them. South Pole’s annual report Net Zero and Beyond: A Deep-dive on Climate Leaders and What’s Driving Them, released today, surveyed the dedicated sustainability leads at over 1,200 large companies with net zero targets across 12 different countries and multiple sectors. Alongside net zero targets, nearly all have either set science-based emission reduction targets or plan to in the next…
Coca-cola under pressure from investors and environmentalists to clean up its act
Activist Investment Platform Tulipshare has teamed up with City to Sea to launch a new shareholder campaign asking The Coca-Cola Company to reduce its single-use plastic consumption by 25%. This comes after COP27 announced Coca-Cola as a sponsor despite being named as the top plastic polluter four years in a row, a decision which has left many activists ‘baffled’. Currently, Coca-Cola sells more than 100 billion plastic bottles every year, or 200,000 bottles a minute. Despite Coca-Cola’s “Every Bottle Back” and “World Without Waste” campaigns, the company retained its title as the world’s top plastic polluter for…
Ad Net Zero Marks 2nd Global Summit With New Training And Updated Guide
Ad Net Zero, the advertising industry’s response to the climate crisis, formed two years ago in the UK by the Advertising Association, IPA and ISBA, has launched an updated training programme and published a refreshed guide, freely available as it marks the first day of its Global Summit. The two-day event features 66 speakers from across the world in 28 sessions, with every second of the programme focused on helping advertising and marketing services professionals take practical action and help tackle climate change. The Ad Net Zero training (Essential Certificate)…