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New Carbon Data Standards Initiative to Aid and Scale Carbon Markets

Stuart Mitchell

A group of 30 leading businesses, nonprofits and public sector organizations have joined forces to help facilitate and scale carbon markets by launching an open, multi-stakeholder initiative to develop a protocol that harmonizes the definitions and rules that standardize data describing carbon crediting projects and carbon credits across markets, geographies and activity types.      The group’s Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) aims to create the processes and definitions for greater standardization, transparency and fungibility to improve integrity and dramatically scale carbon markets, according to the committee-led initiative’s four co-chairs, The Global…

UK Schoolchildren dissuaded from climate action due to bullying and peer pressure

Stuart Mitchell

Research released today by education charity, Another Way, has revealed that students actively involved in climate change projects in their schools/colleges are being prevented from taking part in initiatives due to peer pressure and bullying from classmates. The findings have found a pervasive culture of fear and intimidation in schools for those trying to take action. Over half (59%) of secondary school children surveyed have experienced negative impacts as a result of being involved in environmental initiatives, with a quarter (25.8%) facing teasing or verbal bullying and over one in…

WARC Rankings 2025: Media 100 is now released! The world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media

Stuart Mitchell

The WARC Media 100, the ultimate independent global benchmark of the world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media, is now released. Compiled by WARC Creative, helping companies deliver creative marketing that works, the annual Media 100 Ranking is an aggregate of the results of the most important global and regional media awards of 2024. The shows tracked are determined in consultation with the WARC Rankings Advisory Board and by a yearly global panel survey. Anna Hamill, Senior Editor, WARC Creative, said: “The WARC Media 100 are annual worldwide league…

AXA XL contributes $1.2 million to major African community climate-resilience partnership

Stuart Mitchell

AXA XL is providing a grant of $1.2 million to Save the Children for a five-year initiative to mitigate the impact of climate change across coastal ecosystems in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project – one of the largest ever to tackle climate resilience in the country – will empower coastal communities to plan for climate change and improve their livelihoods. It aims to reach 260,000 people directly, with a further one million people expected to benefit. Sierra Leone has one of the lowest CO2 emissions per capita in…

New funding from Anchor Butter to strengthen community connections through food

Stuart Mitchell

UK Community Foundations (UKCF), in partnership with Anchor Butter, has launched its third year of the Anchor Community Connection Fund.  This year’s funding round will focus on London and the regions of Leicestershire and Rutland.  The London Community Foundation and Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation will oversee the distribution of £50,000 in grants to local organisations dedicated to bringing communities together through food. Reports from community-led groups, previously funded by the Anchor Community Connection Fund in the last two years, confirm that individuals and families have gained a lot more…