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New Guidance Outlines Best Practices for Municipal Bond Issuers Facing Growing Climate Threats

Stuart Mitchell

As municipalities and other public entities face rising costs from storms, fires, and extreme weather events, Ceres recently released new guidance on how state and local governments can integrate resilience planning with climate risk disclosure to address these challenges.   The report, “Leading with Transparency: A Guide to Strengthening Climate Disclosure and Resilience in the Municipal Bond Market” provides a comprehensive framework for how public sector organizations can better inform investors on their climate risks and plans to address these risks.   The report also highlights best practices from leading U.S. municipalities…

New PSAs Aim to Help Families Identify Subtle Signs of Alzheimer’s in Loved Ones

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association, recently launched new public service advertisements (PSAs) to help people recognize the early signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in their loved ones. The new suite of PSAs are the latest in the award-winning “Some Things Come with Age” campaign, which continues to encourage pre-care partners to learn about the early warning signs of Alzheimer’s. The latest PSAs focus on Black Americans, who are twice as likely to develop the disease. “The Alzheimer’s Association is proud to partner…

Genocide against the Tutsi: UNESCO and Rwanda to step-up the role of education in the memorial sites

Stuart Mitchell

On the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, UNESCO and the Rwandan government announced plans to strengthen the educational role of memorial sites, four of which have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2023. They will train managers and staff to receive school groups, enhance the exhibitions and create educational content for use in schools. What happened in Rwanda concerns the whole of humanity. Education and the media were instrumentalized to transform ordinary citizens into killers. We must tirelessly transmit the…

£5m of funding from Garfield Weston Foundation will help ‘turn the tide’ for nature on a huge scale says the National Trust

Stuart Mitchell

The battle against both the nature and climate crises is being stepped up on land cared for by the National Trust at four locations in England, as a new three-year project to deliver landscape scale nature conservation gets underway. The battle against both the nature and climate crises is being stepped up on land cared for by the National Trust at four locations in England, as a new three-year project to deliver landscape scale nature conservation gets underway. Thanks to funding support of £5m from the Garfield Weston Foundation [1],…

Mars talks about reducing water usage in their food supply chain

Stuart Mitchell

Mars has released a post that talks baout how they view the importance of reducing their water usage. I enclose the text of this below but it is copyright of Mars and I encourage you to read the post on their site here and see the other things they are doing. When it comes to the agricultural supply chain, Mars is working with farmers to implement climate-smart practices that help them reduce water usage, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and maintain yields for farmers. A great example is our work on…