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Former refugee wins global Nansen award for championing education for displaced children

Stuart Mitchell

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Abdullahi Mire – a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children in Kenya – will be the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s 2023 global laureate.  “Abdullahi Mire is living proof that transformative ideas can spring from within displaced communities,” said Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “He has shown great resourcefulness and tenacity in strengthening the quality of refugee education.”  Born in Somalia, Mire grew up in…

Countries can save $3 trillion on net-zero power systems by 2040 from global grid upgrades

Stuart Mitchell

Future Energy Outlook (FEO), a highly granular energy transition planning tool, shows that investing an additional $1.7 trillion on transmission infrastructure by 2040 would collectively cut electricity decarbonisation costs by $3 trillion globally. FEO beta will be launched at COP28 by climate analytics non-profit TransitionZero. A study ‘Cables to Change the World’, which utilises the FEO platform, examined the primary risk to the global clean energy transition: the urgent need to modernise grids to access – and optimise for – low-cost renewable power. For the first time, the study quantifies…

Contrail-chasing Blue Condor makes Airbus’ first full hydrogen-powered flight

Stuart Mitchell

The modified glider at the centre of Airbus UpNext’s hydrogen contrail-studying experiment, Blue Condor, made its first hydrogen-powered flight over Nevada in the United States on 8 November. The flight was the company’s first ever to use hydrogen as the sole fuel source, and it kicked off a test campaign that will conclude in a contrail-measuring mission in early 2024. Hydrogen offers aviation a path to low-carbon operations, yet its combustion produces contrails just like conventional jet fuel. Hydrogen contrails, however, differ significantly. They don’t contain soot or sulphur oxides,…

ELC Celebrates Six Years of Advancing Possibilities for Women in STEM With Springer Nature

Stuart Mitchell

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) have a long-term commitment to advancing possibilities for women and girls around the world. In our 6th year of partnership with Springer Nature, the world’s leading scientific research publisher, they continue to recognize and celebrate inspirational early-career women researchers and those who have worked to champion women and girls’ participation in science through the Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science. This year’s awards ceremony, hosted across 2 days and held for the first time at the company’s global headquarters and Research & Development (R&D)…

Mars accelerates progress towards 100% responsibly sourced and traceable cocoa

Stuart Mitchell

Mars accelerates progress towards 100% responsibly sourced cocoa traceable from farm to first point of purchase by 2025 350,000 farmers in their supply chain rely on cocoa for their livelihoods. Cocoa isn’t just a key ingredient for some of our best-loved brands, like DOVE®/GALAXY® and M&Ms®, it is an essential part of our heritage. For over 100 years, they’ve been sourcing cocoa from around the globe. But their commitment goes beyond our own success – it’s about the farmers we depend on and that mutual reliance is what drives us…