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UKRI updates funding policies to improve research sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

UKRI is improving financial sustainability by updating its approach to equipment costs, capital thresholds and clarifying its position on matched funding. The UK research community is set to benefit from key changes in UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) approach to equipment costs and capital thresholds, as well as clearer guidance on institutional matched funding. This will help support long-term financial sustainability in research and innovation From 1 April 2025, UKRI will introduce these changes on new funding opportunities launched in the UKRI Funding Service to: improve cost recovery streamline funding…

TNFD launches new capacity-building platform to scale market confidence and capabilities on nature-related issues

Stuart Mitchell

Responding to market needs for upskilling on nature-related issues, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) today released two new capacity-building tools for market participants and for third-party training providers. Available from the Knowledge Hub on the TNFD website are a Learning Lab, for interested individuals to access directly for their own self-guided, self-paced knowledge and skill building, and Trainer Portal, a suite of materials for use by training and education service providers. Both platforms are designed to equip businesses and financial professionals directly and through third-party training providers with…

ASA – In-app ads that harmfully objectify women: findings revealed

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: In-app ads that harmfully objectify women: findings revealed. 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. Today, we’ve published a report providing a unique insight into the online supply pathway of in-app ads which harmfully objectify women. It is the first time the ASA has undertaken systematic monitoring of ads in mobile apps.  We found relatively few instances of…

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…

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…