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PRCA announces Prezly as its exclusive newsroom partner

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has recently announced a new partnership with Prezly to power its newsroom and media outreach operations. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in how the PRCA shares news and insights with its members and the broader communications industry. With Prezly’s intuitive platform, the PRCA will benefit from a streamlined digital newsroom, PR CRM capabilities and data-driven analytics. As part of the partnership launch, Prezly is offering a unique membership benefit: any organisation joining the PRCA in July will receive a 55% discount…

Lloyds supports Tideway’s £250m blue bond – a UK first in sterling corporate issuance

Stuart Mitchell

Lloyds has acted as Global Coordinator on the successful issuance of a £250 million 8-year Blue Bond for Tideway (Bazalgette Finance Plc), marking a milestone in the evolution of sustainable finance with this being the first-ever Blue Bond issued by a UK corporate in sterling. Tideway was established to design, build, commission and maintain the Thames Tideway Tunnel. A critical infrastructure project developed to intercept millions of tonnes of raw sewage that would otherwise pollute the River Thames. With construction now complete and the project entering its next phase, the…

New CATF analysis reveals energy poverty metrics fail to capture true costs for African households

Stuart Mitchell

A new paper from Clean Air Task Force (CATF), also published in Energy Economics, reveals that standard methods of measuring energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa significantly understate the true burden faced by households by failing to account for the high costs of coping with unreliable electricity – using Benin as a case study to illustrate these broader regional dynamics.   “These hidden costs are crushing families’ budgets,” said Prudence Dato, Lead Energy Economist at CATF. “Millions of people who appear to be out of energy poverty based on their electricity bills are,…

Greenpeace and elvis assemble high profile activists for nationwide billboard protest

Stuart Mitchell

‘They can’t arrest this billboard’ harnesses “safety” of OOH spaces to call for restoration of the public’s democratic right to protest The right to protest powers democracy. It’s behind many of the biggest leaps forward society has seen. In recent years however, people’s freedom to join peaceful demonstrations has been quietly eroded. New research published on 3rd July by Greenpeace shows an almost ten-fold rise in the number of arrests in London for conspiracy to cause public nuisance since 2019, but out of more than 600 arrests made, only 18…

Fairtrade adds Türkiye to its list of producer countries

Stuart Mitchell

Fairtrade is pleased to announce that Türkiye is now a Fairtrade producer country, which means it has been added to the list of countries where raw materials for certified products can be sourced in Western Asia.    In March 2025, the Fairtrade International Board of Directors approved the expansion of the Fairtrade Geographical Scope Policy of Producer Certification to include Türkiye following numerous requests from member organisations to source hazelnuts.   To begin the process, Fairtrade Germany conducted a thorough analysis, in which they  evaluated Türkiye’s income per capita using data from…