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EcoVadis Unveils Carbon Data Network to Help Meet Net Zero Targets

Stuart Mitchell

EcoVadis, the leading sustainability intelligence platform for global supply chains, today unveiled its Carbon Data Network (CDN) at the Sustain 2025 conference. CDN represents a giant leap-forward in Scope 3 decarbonization, providing businesses with unparalleled access to insights on primary carbon data reliability from their suppliers. Built on a network of more than 150,000 organizations, this streamlined collection and transparency of primary emissions data empowers companies to drive and measure their Scope 3 decarbonization progress.   Only 16% of the world’s largest companies are currently on track to meet their 2050 Net…

WPP partners with Visible Start in the UK to expand career opportunities for midlife women in advertising and marketing

Stuart Mitchell

WPP, the creative transformation company, continues its partnership with Visible Start for the fourth year of its groundbreaking programme, a free eight-week online initiative designed to empower midlife women seeking to re-enter the advertising and marketing industry. The Visible Start programme equips participants with the skills and confidence needed to relaunch their careers in today’s fast-moving landscape, and this year expands its reach across all of WPP in the UK, tapping into multiple skillsets across disciplines. Visible Start has already proven successful in helping midlife women transition back into the…

Artists Mount First Amendment Challenge to New Grant Requirements by the National Endowment for the Arts

Stuart Mitchell

Artists and theater groups are challenging a new certification requirement and funding prohibition that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has imposed on grant applications. The NEA now requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” in order to be eligible for funding and blocks any projects that reasonably appear to “promote gender ideology” from getting an award. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Rhode Island, David Cole, and Lynette Labinger, cooperating counsel for the ACLU-RI, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court…

Transformational change needed to address supermarkets’ farm to fork climate impact, with only four of top 10 setting Net Zero targets

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s ten largest supermarkets are all making progress on reducing the climate impact of their own operations, but transformational change and increased collaboration in the sector is needed to address the 90% of emissions linked with their supply chains, according to a new report from the Carbon Trust. ‘Big changes in store: How can the global supermarket sector accelerate to Net Zero?‘ takes stock of Net Zero progress of the world’s top 10 biggest supermarkets by revenue. Using the Carbon Trust’s Net Zero Sector Assessment tool, it looks at…

UNICEF names Khaby Lame as a Goodwill Ambassador

Stuart Mitchell

Global content creator Khaby Lame has been announced as UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. The appointment – made at an event in Lame’s birth country Senegal – follows a four-day visit to meet children and young people who are driving positive change in their communities. “It’s a true honour to be appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and be part of an organisation that puts children’s rights front and centre every day,” said Lame. “From my own experience as a child fearing poverty, struggling to find my passion at school, and…