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The One Club announces global shortlist for Next Creative Leaders competition

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity today announced 120 talented young creatives and teams based in 30 countries and territories who have been shortlisted for Next Creative Leaders 2025, a free global competition recognizing women and non-binary creatives on the rise. Celebrating its 10th year, Next Creative Leaders was created in partnership with The 3% Movement as the industry’s only free portfolio competition that identifies, celebrates, and provides a global platform to talented women, non-binary, and trans creatives who are making their mark on the world with both their work and…

World-First Food-Safe Recycled Polypropylene For European Markets

Stuart Mitchell

Recently Prevented Ocean Plastic, alongside major industry stakeholders, announces the first ever food-safe polypropylene (PP, one of the most commonly used yet least recycled plastics on the planet) recycled to the European standard (EU 2022/1616). PP is a part of everyday items like plastic cups, bottles and caps, and flexible films but despite its prevalence, has a global post-consumer recycling rate of just 1%, making it the second most common type of plastic polluting the ocean.  Working together Now, a global partnership representing all stages of the supply chain has…

Electric Vehicles Remain Key Driver for Grid Investment Despite Data Center Boom

Stuart Mitchell

Grid investment of $15.8 trillion is needed between now and 2050 under BloombergNEF’s base-case scenario for the global energy transition, most of it for physical assets like wires, cables, towers and substations to deliver a required 29-million-kilometer (17.4-million-mile) extension. This year’s outlook included data centers as a new driver of grid investment but found that their global share of utilities’ capital expenditure on grid infrastructure remains modest. New Energy Outlook Download the executive summary and sample dataset to explore scenarios covering the global transition across power, transport, buildings, and industry…

106 governments step forward with 191 commitments to accelerate the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and advance progress for all women and girls

Stuart Mitchell

In the strongest multilateral stand for women and girls in 30 years, 106 governments from all regions have stepped forward with 191 commitments to accelerate progress for all women and girls by 2030. Launched recently by UN Women, the Beijing+30 Priority Actions Dashboard showcases governments’ voluntary commitments to women’s rights and demonstrates that gender equality remains a rallying force for multilateralism. “This act of showing up for the rights of women and girls affirms a powerful truth: gender equality remains a unifying force for the world. And multilateralism is still…

CAP Code extended to ensure consistency in regulation of online ads

Stuart Mitchell

The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), author of the UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising and Direct and Promotional marketing (the CAP Code), has extended the remit of the Code. From today it applies to non-paid-for online marketing communications targeted at UK consumers by advertisers who are subject to licensing conditions from a UK public authority or other UK public body requiring compliance with the CAP Code – even where the advertiser does not have a UK-registered company address. This amendment brings into scope social media marketing communications targeted at UK…