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Nature Takes Centre Stage – Biodiversity COP (COP16)
With the theme ‘Peace with Nature’ COP16 in Colombia came to a close on 2 November. Negotiators from 196 countries, as well as NGOs…
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Innovations and Insights from the Sustainability LIVE Net Zero Summit
The MSQ/Sustain team attended the Sustainability Live Net Zero Summit last week, joining sustainability leaders, innovators, and organisations from a wide range of industries…
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Celebrating Earth Day across MSQ
Last month, agencies across MSQ Group’s global offices celebrated Earth Day – a global celebration to gather support for environmental protection. This year’s theme?…
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(S)Low Carbon Business Travel
At MSQ Group, we’re undergoing a major migration of our emissions data to a new carbon accounting tool, but at the last count, our…
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COP29: What was achieved and the Road to Rio
As 2024 comes to a close, we wanted to reflect back on this year’s climate COP that took place last month, as well as…
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Attending One Young World Summit 2024 as a BrandTech Group Impact AI Scholar
“Innovation is a contact sport.” This quote from Dr Barbara Ghinelli perfectly sums up the One Young World Summit. Put thousands of young changemakers…
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Making nature’s value visible
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is a global initiative focused on “making nature’s value visible”. Its principal objective is to mainstream the…
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The case for plant-based
Soy is one of the key drivers of deforestation globally. These days, you’ll find tofu as a veggie option in many a restaurant, and…
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Biodiversity Loss & Colour in Society
Colour is powerful. It affects the way we feel both emotionally and physically and thus has importance in the world through nature and creativity.…
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Our Wonderful Wild Isles
A growing number of us yearn to spend more of our time in nature. We’re living in a period of eco-anxiety and burnout. The…
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Positive Change
It is easy to feel bogged down with the barrage of negative news about the environment… But maybe that doesn’t matter because there is…
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The Cannes of COP – The Top 10 Climate Campaigns from COP28
COP really is THE key moment of the year for many organisations to launch campaigns. But in all the noise, who’s being seen and…
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Taking Stock – it’s COP28 Week 2
As COP28 concludes we’re looking back at what happened in week 2. The second week of any COP is all about the landing the…
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What happened in week 1 of COP28?
This year, COP is in Dubai, sponsored by Coca Cola, and attended by a record number of (2400+) of fossil fuel lobbyists. Although that…
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All I want for COP is…
As COP28 is underway in Dubai, here at MSQ/Sustain we’re reflecting on what we’re hoping to see come out of this year’s international climate negotiations. …
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5 things I learnt from Kendal Mountain Film Festival
This is the first year at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival that the non-profit ‘Milimetres 2 Mountains’ (M2M) was fully represented, an organisation I…
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Andie MacDowell and Recycling Week. Where does it all go?
Every Monday night, as I sort the family rubbish into 7 (ok, 4) different bins for recycling collection, I – without fail – think about…
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Timing is everything…
Thoughts on New York Climate Week. Amidst all the meetings, the panels, the photo ops, the speeches, the drinks, the subways downtown, the Ubers…
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The climatic niche: the new way to understand the climate crisis
We are sensitive animals. Climate change has already created areas of the world where heat and humidity are too severe for humans to tolerate. …
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Is record breaking no longer cool?
Who remembers the TV show Record Breakers? A classic in my opinion. A show that celebrated being the ‘best’ at something. Doing something that…
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Musings for those who attempted ‘No meat May’
How my switch to a plant-based diet happened when I looked at the food system. I became vegetarian because I thought – imagine what…
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Giving Up: Could Lent be reinvented as the new eco-challenge?
Dry January. Veganuary. Stoptober. Movember. Is it time for Eco-Lent? Easter Sunday marks the end of the 40-day period of Lent. A period when…
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What The Comms And Climate?
Blah, blah, blah. COPs – the talk shop, now sponsored by Coke, delivered by a country with a disdain for civil society. Here we…
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