Starbucks expands Community Stores all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa Partner This content was paid for by Starbucks, and produced in partnership with the City AM Commercial department. A term first coined by sociologist Ray Oldenberg, ‘third places’ are a space outside of a person’shome (first place) or work (second place), that is uniquely for socialising and buildingconnections. Humans are social creatures by nature, therefore these places [...]
King Henry Vlll vs Financial Literacy – Londoners speak out on Financial Education in Schools Sponsored Today, the British public can recite the six wives of King Henry VIII – but if you ask about savings accounts, budgeting, career planning, or the support they had in their early years, many are left scratching their heads. A 2023 survey from EVERFI from Blackbaud UK revealed that 74% of teachers believe financial literacy [...]
ESG management platform FuturePlus closes £2.7M Seed raise Sponsored The Sustainability Group, developers of sustainability management and ESG reporting platform FuturePlus (add Hyperlink: https://www.future-plus.co.uk/), has closed its latest round. Overfunding in this round, The Sustainability Group secured a 5x increase in its valuation in just under 3 years, taking its total investment to £2.7 million to date. The Sustainability Group will invest the funds [...]
Climate Comms: How Activists Have Framed Liquid Natural Gas July 8, 2024 | Sponsored Activist groups are, at their core, communications outfits. No matter how strong the moral conviction, if the message isn’t communicated effectively, it won’t lead to change. For some campaigning issues, the comms are less complex than others. Take PETA’s long-running campaign against Canada Goose, for example. The firm is accused of “cruelly” using coyote fur in its [...]
CSRD: NGOs are Conducting Your Materiality Assessment for You June 19, 2024 | Sponsored To meet the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), businesses are getting to grips with reporting material impacts on people and the planet. Doing this robustly is an enormous task, and the deadline is fast approaching. But NGOs have been working at this for decades. Their networks and alliances on-the-ground mean that they can [...]
G7 and the Global Climate Agenda: What do NGOs Expect? June 14, 2024 | Sponsored The leaders of the G7 are meeting from 13-15 June in Italy for the last time before Activists target powerful forums with the potential to set the narrative and make significant change, and it has not escaped campaigners that the G7 nations are responsible for 27% of global fossil fuel production. Groups are looking at the G7 [...]
Shareholders and Activism: How NGOs use AGM Season to Apply Pressure June 13, 2024 | Sponsored From food companies to energy giants and investment banks, publicly traded companies across sectors are in the middle of AGM season. While AGMs have always seen scrutiny from NGOs, the last few years have seen a sharp rise in attention – 2023 levels were 120% higher than 2019. This is not investor or shareholder activism. [...]
Big business backs big government June 10, 2024 Miles Roberts, chief executive at FTSE 100 firm DS Smith, said that this was particularly important given the progress made by other jurisdictions on a green economic plan.
City law firms fight for the best London office space with ESG at the forefront June 7, 2024 London’s legal sector has over 12m sq ft of lease expiring between now and the end of 2030, as law firms are set to compete for the best of the City offices
Nickel Mining: Transition Metals, NGO Activity and What to Expect May 28, 2024 | Sponsored We are currently witnessing a global scramble to meet the growing needs for a new type of raw material – critical minerals like nickel, lithium and copper believed to be essential for the renewables transition. To support this boom, major countries and companies are expanding their mining operations in resource-rich nations to prepare for the shift away from fossil fuels. Indonesia [...]