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Cannes Lions recognises David Lubars as its 2025 Lion of St Mark

Stuart Mitchell

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that David Lubars, former Chief Creative Officer of BBDO Worldwide, will be honoured with its lifetime achievement award, the Lion of St Mark, at the Festival in June. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Lubars has won more than 600 Lions, and under his creative leadership, he helped BBDO achieve unprecedented success, including being named Network of the Year at Cannes Lions a record-setting seven times, leading it to win Network of the Decade in 2020. About the honour,…

Nature Recovery Project partners with WRAP to drive regenerative agricultural projects in key food sourcing areas

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP and Nature Recovery Project have joined forces to address one of the most pressing issues facing the planet – water security. Nature Recovery Project cemented the new partnership with a £1.14 million investment to support and accelerate essential work already underway in the UK, South Africa, Kenya, Spain and Peru through the Water Roadmap – managed by WRAP under the UK Food and Drink Pact. The funding will provide long-term support over the next four years to a number of existing collective action projects operating through WRAP’s Water Roadmap in…

Pioneering Barbados water project kick starts

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Climate Fund and the Government of Barbados recently announced that a groundbreaking project that leverages an innovative financing model to scale up climate action and simultaneously avoid increasing the burden of public debt is all set to begin implementation. The pioneering project, with huge positive implications for climate resilience in the region, was today greenlighted for its first injection of GCF finance. The USD 110 million Barbados Climate Resilient South Coast Water Reclamation Project financed jointly by GCF (Green Climate Fund) and the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) is…

rezonanz Releases “Voting for the Future” Report

Stuart Mitchell

Pension funds’ long-term investment horizons and broad diversification across markets and asset classes positions them as critical players in driving sustainable change in corporate behavior. By leveraging proxy voting as a cost-effective form of stewardship, pension funds can use their ownership rights to push companies toward improved Environmental and Social (E&S) practices. Our research aims to provide a holistic view of pension funds’ proxy voting activities with concrete recommendations for both these institutions and industry practitioners to enhance stewardship practices and drive long-term sustainable outcomes in the global economy. In…

Fast fashion could be left on the peg as preloved and repair displace new sales

Stuart Mitchell

A new report from WRAP, working with leading resale and repair businesses and brands, shows the positive impacts that a range of circular business models are having in stopping the purchase of new clothes. The insights are outlined in the report Displacement Rates Untangled and make essential reading for the UK, which in 2024 was the fourth highest consumer of clothing of any nation, after the USA, China and India.  Harriet Lamb, WRAP CEO, said “Our research shows that buying preloved both satisfies our desire for clothes, for something new-to-us, and means we don’t buy so many brand-new…