Tag: Climate Change

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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HSBC partners with WRI and WWF to scale next generation solutions to climate change

Stuart Mitchell

HSBC, in partnership with World Resources Institute (WRI) and WWF, have unveiled their Climate Solutions Partnership to unlock barriers to finance for companies and projects that tackle climate change. The partnership’s three workstreams focus on start-up firms developing carbon-cutting technologies, projects that protect and restore biodiversity, and initiatives to help transition energy growth to renewables in Asia. The partnership aims to bring emerging climate solutions to commercial viability and scale. It will do this by supporting sustainable projects that would otherwise face barriers to finance due to insufficient policy and…

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WRAP’s first Food Waste Action Week alerts UK citizens to the link between wasting food and climate change

Stuart Mitchell

Not wasting food was high in the public mind during the inaugural Food Waste Action Week 2021. Partnering with celebrity cook, TV presenter and author Nadiya Hussain, Food Waste Action Week tackled food waste to help save the planet. Spreading the message that ‘Wasting Food Feeds Climate Change,’ the Week set the British public a #FoodWasteActionChallenge to help reduce their household food waste. One in three UK adults heard or saw messaging about food waste during this first annual week of action, delivered by Love Food Hate Waste @lfhw_uk. More…

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Sky News to launch first daily news programme dedicated to climate change and the environment

Stuart Mitchell

On Wednesday 7th April, Sky News will launch the first daily prime time news show dedicated to climate change – the single biggest global issue of our generation. Hosted by Sky News presenter Anna Jones, ‘The Daily Climate Show’ will showcase the work of Sky News correspondents both here and abroad as they investigate how global warming is changing our landscape and changing how we all live our lives. It will also highlight solutions to the crisis and show viewers small changes they can make that will make a big…

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