Tag: COP26

£1.7 million grant to cut plastic pollution in India, Chile, Kenya and South Africa

Stuart Mitchell

Last month sustainability charity WRAP and UKRI launch a major new UK fund to support projects to reduce the impact of plastics on the environment in India, Chile, Kenya and South Africa. The International Circular Plastics Flagship Projects Competition is a £1.7 million fund designed to address the problem of plastics pollution in these key nations. Applicants can apply for funding ranging from £50,000 up to £250,000 that demonstrate solutions which respond to specific targets under the Plastics Pacts of each nation, and which will ultimately help reduce plastic pollution…

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Ikea pre-launch of new guide to unlock business action on air pollution

Stuart Mitchell

IKEA and partners are introducing a practical guide for businesses on how to measure air pollution across value chains. The guide will support companies to understand their impact on air quality and to take necessary actions to reduce their emissions. The guide is being developed by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), in co-operation with IKEA with the ambition to contribute to better health for people and the planet. Reducing air pollution is more important now than ever before. Today, air pollution is shortening the…

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UK Nature-tech innovators Earthly and Alchemy launched immersive, carbon removal visualisation at COP26

Stuart Mitchell

Earthly, the platform connecting businesses to nature-based solutions and cutting-edge immersive storytelling production studio, Alchemy will demo their unique collaboration: An immersive 3D ‘island’ that visualises carbon removal as a series of living ecosystems. Businesses, their customers and their employees can immerse themselves in a bespoke digital island to examine more closely the ways in which natural carbon ‘sinks’ such as mangroves, forests and sea kelp store carbon to help neutralise their carbon footprint while supporting biodiversity. “We designed the fly-through, interactive experience to be more engaging than an abstract…

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Children call for action on climate change at COP26

Stuart Mitchell

The LEGO Group has launched ten ‘Building Instructions for a Better World‘, informing leaders what young people think should happen if we’re to tackle the climate crisis and create a more sustainable future. Reflecting the accessible style of the building instructions that accompany LEGO products, these ten requests of policy makers were identified through research with children from across the globe, helping to give young people a greater voice in the debate on climate change. At COP26 (UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties), key sustainability influencers and decision makers…

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Clipper Teas pledges support to Fairtrade farmers in run up to COP26

Stuart Mitchell

Pioneering Fairtrade tea brand, Clipper Teas, has joined forces with other Fairtrade partners worldwide to pledge its support for Fairtrade farmers in their call for climate justice ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, UK, this November.  Ecotone-owned Clipper is one of a number of companies which has signed a business pledge urging world governments and leaders to listen to the voices of farmers – the people who grow the world’s food and other essential goods in low-income, climate-vulnerable nations – as the farmers call for urgent action at COP26.    The climate crisis is having a disproportionate…

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