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Big Give’s 2024 Christmas Challenge raises a record £44.7 million in one week

Stuart Mitchell

Big Give’s Christmas Challenge has become the UK’s biggest public fundraising campaign in 2024 after raising a record-breaking £44.7 million in just one week, marking a remarkable 35% increase from last year’s total of £33 million.The campaign, which concluded at midday on Tuesday, 10 December, attracted over 119,000 donations from the public, with 74% of participating charities meeting or exceeding their fundraising targets and 95% of all available match funds being utilised. This amount raised is particularly notable given the ongoing impact of the cost of living crisis, which has…

Businesses can unlock a nature-positive economy with an enabling policy framework from government

Stuart Mitchell

A new briefing launched recently by the Aldersgate Group calls on the government to align policy and regulation to enable business action that can unlock the economic and ecological potential of a nature-positive economy. The UK stands at a pivotal moment for nature recovery. Bold leadership, clear frameworks and collaborative efforts are required to drive a transition from ambition to tangible delivery. Nature is vital to the economy, with 55% of global GDP moderately or highly dependent on it.[i] However, successive UK governments have struggled to progress towards legally-binding environmental…

Investors shun long-term ESG rewards in quest for short-term gains

Stuart Mitchell

A blinkered view of climate change and sustainability has taken hold across the world’s investor community and is fueling a focus on short-term performance at the expense of longer-term gains from environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments, according to the latest EY Institutional Investor Survey. The survey, now in in its 11th year, canvasses the views of 350 key decision-makers from investment firms around the world – including asset managers, wealth managers, insurers and pension funds – and explores the extent to which they are building sustainability into their investment…

UK sees surge in the demand for green skills despite overall job market decline – PwC Green Jobs Barometer

Stuart Mitchell

The latest PwC Green Jobs Barometer reveals a surge in green job adverts across the UK, reflecting a growing demand for green skills despite a 22.5% contraction in the overall job market. Now in its fourth year, the Barometer tracks the movement in green jobs creation, job loss, carbon intensity of employment, and worker sentiment across regions and sectors. It finds that the share of green job adverts as a proportion of total job adverts increased to 3.3% in 2024 – up from 2.3% in 2023 – adding nearly 23,000…

World must act faster to protect 30% of the planet by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

The international community has made some headway on pledges to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030 but progress must accelerate, the official progress report from the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has found. The Protected Planet Report 2024 reveals that 17.6% of land and inland waters and 8.4% of the ocean and coastal areas globally are within documented protected and conserved areas.  The increase in coverage since 2020, equivalent to more than twice the size of Colombia, is…