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Canary Wharf businesses to ride the wave in annual Dragon Boat Race for WaterAid

Stuart Mitchell

Canary Wharf businesses are invited to take to the water on Thursday 6 July to row-row-row their boats along South Dock as part of a fiery Dragon Boat Race in support of international charity WaterAid. Returning for a second year, the corporate competition will see local organisations swap their keyboards for oars as they honour the 2,000 year-old Chinese tradition in a bid to help WaterAid deliver the basic human right of clean water and decent toilets to everyone, everywhere. In collaboration with the Canary Wharf Group, funds raised through…

Pip & Nut Founder Pippa Murray Joins B Lab UK Board Of Trustees To Further Champion Business As A Force For Good

Stuart Mitchell

 Pip & Nut – the award-winning nut butter brand – is proud to announce the appointment of its founder, Pip Murray, as a Trustee of B Lab UK, a non-profit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities and the planet.  Pip Murray has been a vocal advocate of ethical sourcing and better business practice since she founded Pip & Nut in 2015. The B Lab UK Trustee appointment marks her continued commitment to rigorous standards of social and environmental business performance, transparency and accountability.  In her role as trustee,…

Tackling the nature and climate crises is the biggest business opportunity this century, say industry leaders

Stuart Mitchell

Business leaders including Deborah Meaden and leaders from NatWest, John Lewis Partnership and the Financial Conduct Authority, are joining the UK’s three leading nature charities WWF, RSPB and National Trust to urge all businesses to act now to tackle the nature and climate crises. Nature is the foundation of the systems that allow businesses to function, yet the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. Nature loss and climate change are resulting in ecological breakdown at an unprecedented level, creating risks to businesses from supply…

UK aquaculture business opens door to private seven-figure investment to build the world’s largest open ocean megafarm

Stuart Mitchell

Seafields – a UK-based aquaculture business that aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean has opened its first-ever private, seven figure investment round.   Developing and testing new technologies focused on growing and capturing Sargassum – a seaweed that has escaped its normal environment in the Sargasso Sea and has exploded in growth in the last two decades – Seafields is inviting investors to contribute to its mission to remove over 1Gt (one billion…

Half of UK businesses already impacted by climate change

Stuart Mitchell

Half (48%) of all UK businesses have reported being impacted by the effects of climate change, with 52% of those reporting that their ability to do business has been impacted by extreme weather events, according to new research by global risk management and insurance broker, Gallagher. The study of more than 1,500 UK business decision-makers reveals that climate change is already a challenge for British businesses, with nearly three quarters of business leaders concerned about the impact over the next 10 years. Two thirds of those surveyed said a rise…