ICCO Welcomes New Members as It Embarks on a Year of Growth in 2025

The International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) is excited to announce the first wave of new members joining its global community in 2025. As ICCO continues its journey through a transformative period, this year’s focus is on expanding its global footprint, strengthening partnerships, and enhancing the services it offers to its diverse membership base. Meet the Newest ICCO Members Team Farner – EuropeFarner International, rooted in Switzerland, is a leading alliance of consulting firms specialising in integrated communications. With expertise spanning strategy, branding, public affairs, and more, Farner combines all disciplines…

Ceres to highlight advanced solutions to monitor supply chain deforestation

In a crucial year for deforestation action, Ceres is highlighting innovative ways companies can use technology to reduce the climate and nature risks facing their businesses from forest loss and degradation in their supply chain. Much attention will be on forests this year, with COP30 taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation set to go into effect, and many of the world’s largest companies having ambitious no-deforestation pledges tied to 2025.   As Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber writes in Forbes.com,  “Deforestation has the potential…

WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts

The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, with some of the consequences being irreversible over hundreds if not thousands of years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which also underlined the massive economic and social upheavals from extreme weather.  Key messages Key climate change indicators again reach record levels Long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below 1.5°C Sea-level rise and ocean warming irreversible for hundreds of years Record greenhouse gas concentrations combined with El Niño and other factors to drive…

ICCO World PR Report Reveals AI, Strategic Consulting, and Ethical Leadership as Key Industry Priorities

The ICCO World PR Report 2024-2025 has officially launched, offering a comprehensive overview of the key trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the global PR industry. This year’s findings underscore AI adoption, reputation management, geopolitical influence, and ethical leadership as defining factors for PR professionals navigating an evolving communications landscape. Produced annually by ICCO, the report gathers insights from senior PR leaders worldwide, providing valuable data on growth, investment, talent retention, measurement, and emerging digital trends across different regions. This year’s research finds a global industry confident in its resilience despite…

Multi-sport field with water storage and cooling system in The Hague

Moerwijk, a neighbourhood in the Southwest region of The Hague is inaugurating in April 2025 the first multifunctional field of the Hague with a cooling down system and water management storage beneath the playing surface. Formed by 2 fields, it will store between 1200 and 1400 m3 water. This will create a cooling system in summer and it solves the flood problems from the past when large volumes of rain could not drain properly. Sustainable Sports Fields  Klaas Wapstra is the civil engineer and work planner working for the City…