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Industry coalition rallies advertisers for Know Your Customer consultation

Stuart Mitchell

UKSAFC (The UK Stop Ad Funded Crime Group) is calling for advertising industry cooperation as it announces the launch of a consultation on a forthcoming initiative to tackle ad-funded crime and fraud. Ad fraud is a major problem for advertisers. Estimates put the cost of ad fraud at up to $100 billion and suggest that almost half of ad spend drives no results. While there is no single measure to combat ad fraud, UKSAFC believes the scale of the problem could be significantly reduced if advertisers and their agencies took…

Global Cost of Renewables to Continue Falling in 2025 as China Extends Manufacturing Lead: BloombergNEF

Stuart Mitchell

The cost of clean power technologies such as wind, solar and battery technologies are expected to fall further by 2-11% in 2025, breaking last year’s record. According to a latest report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF), new wind and solar farms are already undercutting new coal and gas plants on production cost in almost every market globally. Meanwhile, China’s clean technology manufacturing overcapacity has led to rising protectionism in the form of import tariffs by countries to avoid cheap imports upending their own energy markets. Trade barriers could temporarily stall…

Artists Mount First Amendment Challenge to New Grant Requirements by the National Endowment for the Arts

Stuart Mitchell

Artists and theater groups are challenging a new certification requirement and funding prohibition that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has imposed on grant applications. The NEA now requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” in order to be eligible for funding and blocks any projects that reasonably appear to “promote gender ideology” from getting an award. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Rhode Island, David Cole, and Lynette Labinger, cooperating counsel for the ACLU-RI, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court…

enfinium announces next phase of carbon capture technology programme, trialling next generation British technology and accelerating carbon capture in Wales

Stuart Mitchell

enfinium, one of the UK’s leading energy from waste (EfW) operators, today announced the next phase of its carbon capture and storage (CCS) pilot programme, advancing its commitment to deliver CCS across its facilities. One of the projects, located at enfinium’s Parc Adfer facility in Flintshire, North Wales, will be the only active carbon capture pilot in Wales and the first pilot deployed in the wider HyNet industrial cluster. In April 2025, enfinium will relocate the CCS pilot plant currently at its Ferrybridge 1 facility in West Yorkshire to Parc…

New members join Small Charities Advisory Panel to strengthen the voice of small charities

Stuart Mitchell

Five new members have joined the Small Charities Advisory Panel (SCAP), strengthening its role in advocating for the needs of small charities. Five new members join the Small Charities Advisory Panel The Small Charities Advisory Panel (SCAP) has appointed five new members, ensuring that small charities remain at the heart of its advocacy work. Led by NCVO, SCAP helps amplify the voices of small charities in policy and decision-making. The appointments follow a competitive recruitment process. They also reflect SCAP’s renewed commitment to recruiting a panel made up of small…