Tag: UK Prime Minister

UK Prime Minister and Bill Gates launch £400m partnership to boost green investment

Stuart Mitchell

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Bill Gates announced a new partnership between Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and the UK Government to drive investment into the next generation of ground-breaking clean energy technologies. Announced at the Global Investment Summit, the partnership leverages £200 million of private sector investment in the UK to accelerate the development of the cutting-edge climate technologies needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Catalyst – a program within the larger Breakthrough Energy network – is a new model for public-private sector partnership that brings together businesses, governments,…

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UK Prime Minister calls on companies to take steps to improve workplace equality.

Stuart Mitchell

The UK Prime Minister announces new drive to improve workplace equality – calling on more companies to report their gender pay gap and take action to close it. New figures published this week by the ONS show the UK’s overall gender pay gap rising marginally to 18.4%, but the gap for full-time workers falling to a record low – from 9.4% in 2016 to 9.1% in 2017. To close the gender pay gap further, the Prime Minister is calling on companies to: improve the pipeline to ensure progress on female…

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