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University teams win funding from Sodexo for community projects

Stuart Mitchell

Students from 10 universities across the UK have participated in a Dragon’s Den-style competition organised by Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation in partnership with social enterprise and education charity, Enactus UK. The first competition, which ran from January to July 2021, required each team to devise community projects to support Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation’s mission to alleviate hunger, promote good nutrition and improve wellbeing.  The projects needed to have clear aims and objectives which included long-term sustainability and a clear impact on beneficiaries and project reach. Each team was required to…

Orange launches “Orange Nature”, a carbon fund to finance reforestation and ecological restoration projects

Stuart Mitchell

Orange takes another step forward in its Net Zero Carbon by 2040 environmental strategy by creating Orange Nature, an innovative €50 million carbon fund, with returns in high-quality carbon credits only. The Orange Nature fund will directly or indirectly invest in various carbon sequestration projects around the world: afforestation, reforestation, and restoration of natural ecosystems (mangroves or agroforestry projects). Specific attention will be paid to the economic and social development of the regions and populations affected by the projects as well as the positive impacts they have on biodiversity. Launched…

Amazon Investing in 274 Renewable Energy Projects Globally, Adds 18 New Projects in Europe and U.S.

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects across the U.S., Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, totaling 5.6 gigawatts (GW) of procured capacity to date in 2021. Amazon now has 274 renewable energy projects globally and is on a path to power 100% of its business operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years earlier than its original 2030 commitment. These new utility-scale wind and solar projects bring Amazon’s total committed renewable electricity production capacity to more than 12 GW and 33,700 gigawatt hours (GWh) when…

Worldwide Cancer Research Commits £4.5m To Global Projects To Start Cancer Cures

Stuart Mitchell

Worldwide Cancer Research has announced that it has committed £4.5m to fund new cancer research projects around the world in 2022 – a funding increase of £1m on last year1. The Scotland-based UK charity’s scientific advisory committee held their Big Ideas Gathering (BIG) on 7 and 8 October 2021, which saw some of the world’s brightest minds in cancer research review new ideas for discovery research put forward by scientists from across the globe. The charity received over 400 project applications in total and 53 made it to the BIG…

UNESCO awards International Literacy Prizes to innovative projects boosting literacy in Covid times

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO has selected six outstanding literacy programmes from Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Mexico and South Africa as winners of its International Literacy Prizes, awarded on the occasion of International Literacy Day (8 September). During the COVID crisis, these programmes continued to help students learn to read and write through accessible technologies. These programmes have literally changed the lives of thousands of children, young people, women and marginalised adults. Literacy empowers individuals and it expands people’s capabilities and freedom of choice.Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director General At least 773 million youth and adults…