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Write for Rights: Amnesty launches annual letter-writing campaign to help people imprisoned for speaking truth to power

Stuart Mitchell

Amnesty International launches flagship Write for Rights campaign to help people facing human rights abuses around the world Millions of letters and emails will be sent to support these individuals and urge authorities to end injustices ‘Sending a letter or email might seem like a small act, but when sent in their thousands they can change lives: those in power are forced to take notice’ – Sacha Deshmukh Amnesty International is calling on people across the UK to take part in its flagship letter writing campaign, Write for Rights, in…

JLR invests £500 million into creating EV factory of the future in Merseyside

Stuart Mitchell

JLR has announced a £500 million investment to transform its historic Halewood facility to support the parallel production of electric vehicles, alongside existing combustion and hybrid models.  Originally built in 1963 to produce the Ford Anglia, Halewood is being transformed for the electric era. With £250 million already invested, the transformation so far has involved over one million hours of construction work over the last 12 months. The site has been extended by 32,364 sqm to produce JLR’s medium‑sized electric luxury SUVs on the new Electric Modular Architecture (EMA) platform.…

ALDI launches Fairtrade cocoa project

Stuart Mitchell

ALDI proudly continues to support its long-term Fairtrade partner and cocoa cooperative ECAMOM driving impactful initiatives aimed at fostering women’s empowerment, tackle child labour, enhancing financial inclusion, and ensuring sustainable agricultural practices to support readiness for EUDR. In 2020, the ALDI SOUTH Group, Fairtrade, the chocolate manufacturer Storck and the cocoa cooperative ECAMOM in Côte d’Ivoire established a strategic working relationship which resulted in annual Impact Reports. Through these impact reports, ECAMOM collected data from its 3,800 cocoa farmers on how the Fairtrade premium, received for the cocoa sold to…

SBTN publishes pilot outcomes, proving the concept of science-based targets for nature

Stuart Mitchell

The Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) has recently published outcomes from its year-long corporate pilot program, proving that companies now have a clear and credible pathway to take ambitious action for nature. The pilot outcomes, detailed in a report linked here and below, highlight that first-mover companies are now equipped with a gold standard approach to comprehensively assess their biggest impacts on nature, measure those impacts accurately, and set science-based targets – beginning with freshwater and land. This approach enables them to address key drivers of nature loss in the…

Big Issue launches new membership scheme to ask Brits to hit cancel on poverty and unite in midst of poverty crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Big Issue Group has launched its first ever membership scheme to unite supporters of the social enterprise in the fight against the UK poverty crisis. The social enterprise has identified a desire from the UK public to use collective action to change things for people in poverty, with a new YouGov poll1 showing over two thirds (69%) of people believe issues are more effectively resolved when people and organisations work together on a local scale. The campaign kicks off with significant outdoor advertising, starting with Elonex’s The Manchester Screen at Victoria…