Change is certain. How do we harness it?
How Is Fashion Changing Behind The Scenes? In partnership with Conscious Fashion + Lifestyle NetworkThe fashion industry is a vast interconnected system worth trillions of dollars which employs millions of people, many of them women and girls. But 18 months into...
Healthcare in the UK is failing women and girls. According to Nadine Dorries, the Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care, the gender imbalance is the inevitable consequence of historical bias. “For generations, women have been living in a...
Given its global reach, the fashion and lifestyle industries are uniquely positioned to collaborate and engage on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular on confronting the climate crisis, achieving gender equality throughout the value chain, and...
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds that global temperature is expected to reach or exceed 1.5°C of warming averaged over the next 20 years. It reports that emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are already...
A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the sub-Arctic.An annual report on the UK’s weather indicates...
The target to limit global heating to 1.5°C by 2050, accepted by all major countries in the Paris Agreement, could be missed because of the carbon impact of just 100 companies in the oil and gas sector.A new comprehensive study from the World Benchmarking Alliance...
While the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine has been fast and widespread in many rich countries, it is still very low in the world’s poorest nations.More than 3 billion doses of the various vaccines have been administered across the globe, but only 0.9 per cent of...
The World Health Organization has certified China as malaria-free. Given that the country was reporting 30 million cases per year of the disease in the 1940s, it’s a major milestone in the worldwide campaign to eradicate the killer disease completely.How has China...
A new report has found disturbing evidence that ageism remains a last bastion of ‘acceptable discrimination’ in the UK. Six in 10 people feel it is a big problem that needs fixing and two-fifths feel that more funding is needed for older people, alongside other...
Around 112 million women across the world started using mobile phones to access the internet in the last year. But there’s still a gender gap of 234 million compared with use by men.South Asia saw the biggest rise in use by women, according to the GSMA in its...
Go back just 10 years and most bosses of big businesses would have said that their primary responsibility was to increase shareholder value. Fast forward to today and there has been a dramatic shift, with the majority taking a broader view of their purpose so that...
HALF of shoppers would make more environmentally-friendly choices if it was cheaper, a poll found. A huge 48 per cent said they wanted to do the right thing but cost often held them back.Researchers asked if Britain’s shoppers wanted to make different food choices...
A new study from recruiter Robert Walters has indicated wide disparities in remuneration and sentiment towards employers among black and minority professionals compared with their white counterparts.The findings from the Driving Diversity & Inclusion in the...
Sending and receiving payments in cryptocurrencies is commonplace. But people haven’t taken the plunge to get paid their monthly salaries in crypto, until now.A company called NFT Investments claims to be the first in the world to pay the salaries and bonuses of...
A new study has found that the value of the world’s top 50 most valuable cosmetics brands has declined by 9 per cent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not surprising, you might think, as there have been more limited occasions to bring out the lipstick and eye-shadow....
If you subscribe to the notion that property is theft, then the shift to subscription-based living is perfect for you: we’re moving some way to a world where the concept of ownership is being fundamentally redefined.The last few years have seen a dramatic increase...
We're flushing away or binning an astonishing 11 billion wet wipes every year in the UK. Some 9.3 million of them head down the loo every day, accounting for a staggering 93% of all sewer blockages. That’s a real problem, as they can take up to 100 years to...
This year’s Earth Day was bigger than ever, with politicians, businesses, celebrities, NGOs and activists all using it as a moment to announce new initiatives addressing climate change.It would be an impossible task to summarise everything, but we’ve pulled...
It is no coincidence that President Joe Biden chose to hold his Leaders’ Summit on Climate on Earth Day. The initiative, now entering its second half century, has become a focal point for environmental action and activism around the world, and with climate change...
Apparently, according to The CEO Magazine “Screen Addiction Is The Latest Pandemic Coming For You!”. Seems a little flippant to compare to COVID in my opinion. But nonetheless today I’ll be taking a fun little look at NOT LOOKING AWAY.I’m sitting at my laptop, back...
