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Fortum and Microsoft announce world’s largest collaboration to heat homes, services and businesses with sustainable waste heat from new data centre region

Stuart Mitchell

Fortum and Microsoft have announced a unique collaboration project, whereby Fortum will capture the excess heat generated by a new data centre region to be built by Microsoft in the Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland. The data centres will use 100% emission-free electricity, and Fortum will transfer the clean heat from the server cooling process to homes, services and business premises that are connected to its district heating system. The waste heat recycling concept from the data centre region will be the largest of its kind in the world. The…

The Water Council, SCS Global Services Partner on Water Stewardship

Stuart Mitchell

As businesses across the world confront increasing water challenges and growing calls for tangible accomplishments on sustainability, The Water Council has partnered with SCS Global Services to meet this challenge by improving corporate water stewardship outcomes and reporting. This new partnership will include development and rollout of programs to help companies move beyond traditional water management to credible and verified water stewardship that addresses enterprise-wide challenges and opportunities. Multiple factors are influencing companies to address water-related challenges in their value chains. These challenges include supply disruptions, climate impacts and ever-increasing…

LGT and Climeworks close one of the largest-ever direct air capture agreements – the financial services industry at the forefront of carbon removal

Stuart Mitchell

Recent developments, such as new initiatives launched during COP26 or the release of the new SBTi Net Zero Standard, prove that high-quality carbon removal must be an essential component of net zero roadmaps in addition to emissions reduction efforts. LGT, the world’s largest family-owned private banking and asset management group, has just signed a ten-year carbon removal agreement with Climeworks to remove 9’000 tons of CO₂ from the air – the largest-ever direct air capture agreement signed by a bank. LGT’s purchase is the third ten-year agreement for Climeworks within…

Captiv8 Makes Influencer Marketing More Accessible By Offering Pro-Bono Services to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Owned SMBs Through its Influence Change Grant

Stuart Mitchell

As a result of its continued commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive influencer marketing landscape, Industry leader Captiv8, is awarding pro-bono services to five minority-owned small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) to help amplify and scale influencer marketing efforts as a way to help ultimately grow the companies. These recipients of the Influence Change Grant grant will be receiving free access to Captiv8’s SaaS influencer marketing platform, dedicated hours for strategic consulting from its internal team of experts, as well as $50,000 worth of ad credits donated by Meta to help…

New IPA TouchPoints 2021 data reveals rising popularity of SVOD services

Stuart Mitchell

The take-up of Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) continues to soar, with 56% of Brits now viewing these services each week, according to new post lockdown 2021 IPA TouchPoints data. The comprehensive IPA TouchPoints dataset, which provides a 360-degree understanding of British consumers’ daily lives, reveals that since 2018 to post lockdown 2021, the reach of SVOD services (including Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Now TV, Apple TV+, YouTube Premium, BritBox and Disney+) has grown by 51%, with 56% of the British public now viewing these services for an average of…