Center-right industry advocates and former GOP lawmakers call for protecting responsible investing at Climate Week

At a main stage event at Climate Week NYC, prominent thought leaders from center-right organizations and former Republican members of Congress made the case for championing efforts to protect the long-standing rights of investors and companies to consider all financial risks in decision-making. They are part of a growing chorus of bipartisan voices working to safeguard the freedom to invest responsibly.   “If investors are denied the ability to invest in what they think is best, that will significantly reduce the opportunities to make profits, to have a market that…

NSC Study Finds Major Perception Gap Between Workers and Safety Leaders

Nearly 30% of workers who experience pain at work don’t report it, and safety leaders consistently rate their workplace culture more positively than frontline employees do, according to new research from the National Safety Council. The research from Frontline Worker Perspectives on Musculoskeletal Disorder Prevention, based on survey data from 1,000 non-managerial workers across diverse industries, reveals significant disconnects between management perceptions and worker experiences in MSD prevention efforts.  “These findings offer a powerful reminder that safety cannot be achieved without the voice of those doing the work every day,”…

CAP – Updated Enforcement Notice issued on weight-loss prescription medicine ads

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Updated Enforcement Notice issued on weight-loss prescription medicine ads. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Ads for weight-loss prescription-only medicines (POMs), which are against the law and advertising rules, remain a focus of our monitoring, investigation and enforcement work. Today, jointly with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the General Pharmaceutical Council…

Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) Coalition Unveils Open-Source Data Model at Climate Week NYC to Facilitate and Scale Carbon Markets

Last month at Climate Week NYC a growing coalition of carbon market participants announced the release of Version 1.0 of the Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) structure to help facilitate and scale carbon markets by standardizing rules and definitions that describe carbon crediting projects and carbon credits across markets, geographies, and activity types. The new structure provides a collaborative, cross-industry schema for project location, project details, and project approach. This CDOP Version 1.0 structure, with its harmonized data schema, marks a critical breakthrough in addressing data fragmentation that has hindered the carbon market’s…

No more landfillings – all toothpaste tubes now recyclable for Recycle Week

Whether you’re a roller or a squeezer, the age-old question of what to do with the tube once every inch of toothpaste has been used has finally been answered. For Recycle Week 2025, the humble toothpaste tube has become recyclable and should head for the recycling and not the bin from now on, meaning fewer landfillings for the UK.  Each year more than 252 million tubes of fluoride fresh toothpaste are sold in the UK. Twice a day, millions of us brush our teeth—yet until now, those toothpaste tubes have…