Tag: Climate Change

Vanishing Lake Chilwa in Malawi highlights the human cost of climate change, reveals new gallery from WaterAid

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid has released a striking new gallery revealing the dramatic impacts of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of the thousands of people based around Lake Chilwa, Malawi’s second biggest lake. Local photographer Dennis Lupenga spent time with the communities, gathering images to tell their stories, highlighting the daily realities of facing extreme weather and the need to help the world’s most vulnerable people adapt to the climate emergency they have done little to cause. As many as 1.5million people live in the wider Lake Chilwa basin, which is…

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Step It Up this Recycle Week – 2021 is the year of action on climate change

Stuart Mitchell

With COP26 bringing world Governments together to act on climate change in November, Recycle Now will use its annual Recycle Week (20th – 26th September) to bring the nation together to unite against climate change by asking citizens to Step It Up this Recycle Week. “Join the fight against climate change. Step It Up this Recycle Week”. With well-known donors already on board, Recycle Now is delighted to announce that Britvic and PepsiCo have joined forces as part of their partnership agreement to donate to the week, as well as…

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Genpact Installs Racing Car Built from Three Tonnes of Ice at London’s Tower Bridge in Bid to Fight Climate Change

Stuart Mitchell

Genpact, a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, is inviting the world to help fight climate change in a 24 hour fundraising campaign, ‘Melting Point,’ which draws attention to the perils of our warming planet. Ahead of this weekend’s Formula E London E-Prix, Genpact’s ‘Melting Point’ campaign sees a sustainably sourced three-tonne ice replica of an Envision Virgin Racing Formula E car installed by Tower Bridge in Potters Field Park, with people invited to predict the percentage of total ice melt as it is exposed to the…

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Over half of consumers want their pension invested responsibly to help tackle climate change

Stuart Mitchell

New research from mutual pension provider, Royal London, reveals more than half (57%) of consumers want their pension to be invested responsibly to help tackle climate change, with only one in ten (9%) saying they don’t want their pension invested responsibly. Despite this enthusiasm for responsible investment, only one in seven (15%) people who have a pension currently invest it responsibly. Of those who do not currently invest their pension responsibly, a third (33%) said they were more likely to do so once they had been given an explanation of…

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Statkraft partners with SolarAid to tackle climate change and energy poverty

Stuart Mitchell

SolarAid and Statkraft have announced a strategic partnership to tackle poverty and climate change. Statkraft intends to support the charity with donations totalling £2m to be paid over three years. There are 548 million people living without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, impacting their ability to learn, work and feel safe after dark. SolarAid’s ambition is to use clean, safe, and simple solar lighting to combat poverty and climate change so that no home, school or clinic in Africa is left in the dark by 2030. Statkraft is Europe’s largest renewable…

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