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New report identifies opportunities to unlock c.£37bn in private investment for Scotland’s home efficiency market

Stuart Mitchell

A new report, commissioned by the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and funded by the Scottish Government, titled ‘Scottish consumer attitudes towards green home finance products’, shows that boosting consumer awareness of available finance solutions could unlock up to c.£17bn in private investment when paired with supportive policy. According to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), decarbonising Scotland’s buildings will require an additional £30bn of investment, exceeding what the Scottish Government alone can fund[1]. With buildings accounting for 13% of Scotland’s total carbon emissions and 30% of total energy consumption[2], mobilising private…

Password manager provider fined £1.2m by ICO for data breach affecting up to 1.6 million people in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

ICO have fined password manager provider LastPass UK Ltd £1.2 million following a 2022 data breach that compromised the personal information of up to 1.6 million of its UK users.  They found that LastPass failed to implement sufficiently robust technical and security measures, which ultimately enabled a hacker to gain unauthorised access to its backup database. There is no evidence that hackers were able to unencrypt customer passwords as these are stored locally on customer devices and not by LastPass.  The incidents occurred in August 2022 when a hacker gained…

PRSSA to Launch New Chapters at Bethel University and Coastal Carolina University

Stuart Mitchell

PRSSA announced today the establishment of two new collegiate Chapters at Bethel University and Coastal Carolina University (CCU). These new Chapters expand PRSSA’s national footprint and reinforce the organization’s global commitment to preparing the next generation of strategic communicators. “With communications evolving faster than ever, students need real-world tools, professional networks, and a clear understanding of how our industry drives business and measurable impact,” said Ray Day, APR, 2025 PRSA Chair, Stagwell vice chair and Allison Worldwide executive chair. “By launching Chapters at Bethel University and Coastal Carolina University, PRSSA…

Europe’s first ‘wind power-built’ car park inaugurated

Stuart Mitchell

The new Niels Bohr car park in Lund was recently inaugurated, a building partly constructed from disused rotor blades from wind turbines. The building is the first of its kind in Europe and has a façade made from rotor blades from Vattenfall’s now decommissioned Nørre Økse Sø wind farm. “It’s a very smart idea and a really nice building,” says Anne Mette Traberg, Vattenfall’s Country Manager for Denmark. The car park is owned by Lunds kommunala parkeringsbolag (LKP) and is located in the new Brunnshög district on the outskirts of…

Global ad market prospects upgraded to 8.9% (US$1.19trn) but growth concentrated in Big Tech platforms

Stuart Mitchell

A new study from WARC, the experts in marketing effectiveness, has found that global advertising spend is now on course to close out 2025 with growth of 8.9% to $1.19trn, an upgrade of 1.5 percentage points (pp) from WARC’s September forecast due to strong results from Big Tech platforms and a muted impact on global trade from trade tariffs.   A further rise of 9.1% (+1.0pp since September) to $1.30trn is forecast next year, while growth of 7.9% (+0.8pp) in 2027 would push the market’s value to $1.40trn – a doubling in size since the pandemic and equivalent to $150 spent for every person alive today.  The new projections are included…