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Previously published by Blood Cancer United

By E. Anders Kolb, MD, President and CEO, Blood Cancer United

As a pediatric hematologist-oncologist, I learned early on in my career that treating cancer takes more than medicine—it takes support, compassion, and a community that shows up for families.

When someone is diagnosed with blood cancer—whether it’s leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, or one of more than 100 other types—in that moment, life changes. Families are pulled into appointments, test results, and treatment decisions. Caregivers become advocates and anchors. Patients balance fear with the need to keep moving forward.

And in the middle of it all, people need comfort, practical support, and to know they are not alone.

A Partnership Built on Care

That belief has been at the heart of Subaru Loves to Care®, an initiative built from Subaru of America ‘s longstanding partnership with Blood Cancer United. For more than a decade, Subaru, its retailers, customers, and employees have helped bring warmth, encouragement, and tangible relief to people facing cancer across the country.

Since 2016, the program has reached more than 550,000 patients with blankets, care kits, educational resources, handwritten messages, and financial assistance. This year, Subaru retailers delivered more than 51,000 blankets and over 9,000 patient care kits, along with Blood Cancer United resources and messages of hope written by retailer employees and customers in their local communities.

A soft blanket or handwritten note may seem like simple gestures. But for someone in an infusion chair or waiting to complete their treatment that day, they mean something larger: care that can be felt.

United by a Bold Mission

At Blood Cancer United, our mission is to cure blood cancer and improve the quality of life of all patients and their families. We’ve set a bold goal: by 2040, to enable people with blood cancer to gain more than one million years of life.

That goal reflects the future we are working toward: more birthdays, more graduations, more family dinners, and more everyday moments made possible because patients are living longer, fuller lives.

But we cannot reach this goal alone.

That is part of why we are now Blood Cancer United. The word “united” reflects what has always been true. Progress happens when patients, families, clinicians, researchers, volunteers, advocates, donors, and partners come together around a shared purpose. We need mission-aligned partners who understand that impact is strongest when we work together.

Subaru is one of those partners—committed to turning national purpose into local impact through the Subaru Love Promise®.

Helping Families Through Financial Strain

A blood cancer diagnosis often brings financial strain that families are not prepared for. Even with insurance, the cost of care is high and extends far beyond treatment.

In 2026, Subaru retailers once again raised over $1 million for our Urgent Need Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Fund, helping more than 1,800 families cover essentials like food, housing, transportation, and utilities. This is especially important knowing half of recipients live on less than $40,000 per year, and 15 percent are in medically underserved areas.

For these families, this support brings stability when everything feels uncertain.

As one patient shared: “My phone was going to get cut off this month. This helped with gas, extra food, and things my children needed for school.”

No one facing cancer should have to worry about life’s most basic needs. This is what meaningful partnership looks like for the families we serve: gas in the car, groceries on the table, a phone still connected, and one less burden to carry.

National Scale, Local Heart

Along with its national reach, what makes Subaru Loves to Care so powerful is its local impact.

Across the country, Subaru retailers served as local hubs of compassion. Customers and retailer employees wrote messages of hope. Retailer teams delivered blankets and care kits to nearby treatment centers. Local Blood Cancer United teams helped connect resources with the patients and families who need them. What began as a national initiative becomes personal in each community.

That local connection matters because cancer can be extremely isolating. When a patient receives a handwritten card from someone in their own community, it breaks through that isolation. It says: we may not know each other, but you matter.

Inviting More People Into the Mission

Subaru has also helped expand our community of support. In 2025, its $100,000 matching gift helped double June online giving and triple October one-time donations—driving a 240 percent year-over-year increase. Building on that success, Subaru again supported our June Match campaign this year, helping amplify donor impact and extend the reach of our mission to support blood cancer patients and their families. Every gift fuels research, patient support, and advocacy. Every new supporter strengthens our lifesaving mission and the community standing behind people with blood cancer.

This partnership at its best is all about extending reach, deepening impact, and bringing organizational values to life through action.

A Decade Plus of Showing Up

Eleven years in, Subaru Loves to Care is more than a campaign. It is a sustained commitment to showing up.

It has brought comfort into treatment centers, relief to families in crisis, and connection to blood cancer patients who might otherwise feel alone. It has mobilized customers, employees, and retailers as messengers of hope.

At Blood Cancer United, we are accelerating research, supporting patients and families, advocating for policy change, and building a community that helps people live longer, fuller lives.

The work ahead requires urgency, collaboration, and a shared belief that no one should face blood cancer alone. Subaru has shown what it means to turn that belief into action — bringing comfort, relief, and hope to patients and families when they need it most.

For U.S. healthcare systems, clinical and financial stability can be achieved when we look beyond treatment options for individual disease states and instead take a more holistic approach that also addresses the pathological mechanisms that extend across multiple disease states.

The American Heart Association definition of the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM syndrome), a systemic overlap of heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes and obesity, is one important step in advancing integrated care. According to the American Heart Association, nearly nine out of 10 U.S. adults have at least one of the risk factors that make up CKM syndrome, but most people have not heard of CKM syndrome and don’t know how closely these health issues are connected.

This knowledge gap highlights a critical blind spot in American healthcare. The result is a tidal wave of preventable adverse health outcomes — from undiagnosed hypertension to end stage kidney disease — that are often first identified during a hospitalization rather than being proactively identified and treated in outpatient care settings.

By treating conditions like heart disease and diabetes early and together, providers can proactively help manage risks to support healthier futures for their patients.

Breaking the Cycle of Siloed Care

Cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic conditions don’t progress independently — they compound each other. Risk accumulates across systems, not solely within the purview of a given specialty. When care is fragmented, these compounding risks can go unmanaged. Conversely, when care is integrated, these risks can be addressed earlier, more effectively and at lower cost.

This clinical reality is what makes integrated care uniquely powerful for CKM health. Models that treat cardiac care, kidney care and metabolic care in tandem are not simply better coordinated — they are structurally better suited to manage shared risk, intervene earlier and prevent downstream complications.

“CKM conditions don’t exist in silos, and care shouldn’t either,” says Michael O’Shea, MD, vice president for DaVita Integrated Kidney Care. “When we address comorbid conditions together — rather than one at a time — we create better outcomes for patients and more sustainable systems of care.”

When care teams take a cohesive, interdisciplinary approach, they can unlock three critical advantages:

• Precise Risk Stratification: Breaking down data silos to view comorbidities holistically, enabling more accurate identification of potential adverse events.
• Optimized Therapeutics: Leveraging earlier identification to initiate organ-protective therapies (e.g., SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1 RAs) that offer multi-system benefits and help slow disease progression.
• Reduced Total Cost of Care: Mitigating the clinical and financial burden of downstream complications, including end stage kidney disease (ESKD) or heart failure.

How DaVita is Broadening Access to Integrated Care

Integrated care relies on robust infrastructure, advanced technology and a reimagined clinical culture. DaVita is working to bridge care gaps through key innovations and investments:

• Multidisciplinary teams are working to improve transplant rates and clinical outcomes. Read about our nephrology-led care models.
• Strategic investments in AI platforms, like Linea, help enable earlier intervention, reducing heart failure readmissions by 50%. Read more about our AI investment in chronic care.
• DaVita’s chief information officer, Madhu Narasimhan, explains how data interoperability can help enhance the patient experience. Read the Q&A on health tech innovation.

Taking Action: The American Heart Association’s CKM Health Initiative

Accelerating this shift requires system-wide standardization. To further establish integrated care from concept to practice, the American Heart Association launched its groundbreaking CKM Health Initiative.

Sponsored by DaVita and other industry leaders, this four-year effort offers clinicians evidence-based tools to help operationalize new standards:

• Goal: Establish best practices for interdisciplinary care impacting 250,000+ patients.
• Focus: Implementing evidence-based guidelines to bridge the gap between specialty practices.
• Scope: 150 healthcare sites across 15 regions.

“Expanding access to integrated care is an imperative,” says Dr. O’Shea. “The American Heart Association’s initiative provides health systems with a framework and equips clinicians with actionable, cross-specialty insights to help drive more precise interventions and support improved population health outcomes.”

3 American Heart Association Tools for Clinicians

The American Heart Association offers evidence-based tools to help clinicians implement integrated CKM care models:

• PREVENT online calculator: Estimate risk for cardiovascular disease over the next 10 or 30 years.
• Life’s Essential 8: Discover evidence-based guidance that can help patients improve multiple health conditions.
• CKM Health Implementation Guide: Adopt the latest evidence-based CKM care.

DaVita is a Champion Sponsor of the American Heart Association’s Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Health Initiative.

Originally published on CVS Health Company Newsroom

Key points

• SPF is becoming a daily wellness essential
• The top SPF myths consumers still believe
• What shoppers are looking for in SPF today
• How to support everyday sun protection

SPF every day? What consumers are getting right — and wrong — about sun protection

Sun protection is essential. But according to frontline beauty experts at CVS Pharmacy, there’s still a gap in SPF knowledge and use.

Consumers are paying more attention to sun protection than ever before. According to a survey of 520 CVS Beauty Consultants, 72% report that shoppers are increasingly prioritizing SPF as part of their everyday routine. That’s great news.

The challenge? Awareness doesn’t always translate into action. CVS Beauty Consultants across the country are hearing the same misconceptions from consumers, revealing a gap between knowing SPF matters and understanding how to use it effectively.

SPF is becoming a daily wellness essential

For years, sunscreen was viewed as a seasonal purchase, something reserved for beach vacations and summer weekends. Today, more consumers are treating SPF as part of their everyday wellness routine.

“We’re seeing SPF evolve from a seasonal category into a wellness essential, with consumers increasingly viewing sun protection as part of their whole-body skin health routine,” says Michelle LeBlanc, Vice President of Merchandising, Beauty & Personal Care and Hispanic Strategy Team, CVS Health. “CVS is helping drive that behavior change through trusted guidance, accessible education, and a curated assortment that makes SPF easier to understand and incorporate into daily life.”

The top SPF myths consumers still believe

Despite growing awareness, misconceptions remain common.

According to CVS Beauty Consultants:

• 67% say consumers believe SPF is only necessary on sunny days.
• 55% report shoppers think sunscreen isn’t needed during winter months.
• 42% regularly hear that higher SPF means sunscreen doesn’t need to be reapplied.

In reality, UV rays can penetrate clouds, reflect off snow and ice, and contribute to skin damage year-round. And regardless of SPF level, sunscreen should be reapplied every two hours when spending time outdoors, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. Dermatologists recommend using a broad spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher daily.

“One of the biggest misconceptions is that SPF is only needed when the sun is visible,” says Dr. Camille Howard-Verovic, CVS Beauty Dermatologist Advisor and Board-Certified Dermatologist. “In reality, daily SPF should be viewed as a foundational part of routine-based care, just like cleansing or moisturizing.”

What consumers are looking for in SPF today

As shoppers become more educated, they’re also becoming more sophisticated in what they want from their products. The result is a growing demand for products that combine protection, skincare benefits, and convenience — making daily use easier than ever.  

The CVS Beauty Consultant survey found:

• 61% of Beauty Consultants report growing interest in makeup and SPF hybrid products.
• 46% say shoppers are seeking formulas with added skincare benefits, such as anti-aging and dark spot prevention.
• 78% report that consumers rely on dermatologists and healthcare professionals when making SPF purchasing decisions.

How to support everyday sun protection

The SPF conversation is evolving. Consumers increasingly understand that sun protection is an important part of overall skin health, but misconceptions around when and how to use sunscreen remain.

The opportunity now is helping more consumers move from seasonal SPF habits to consistent, year-round protection. With the right products to make routine use easy paired with education, small shifts in behavior can have a meaningful impact on long-term skin health.

A few things to keep in mind:

• Sunscreen is for every day, every season — not just beach days or summer months.
• Higher SPF doesn’t mean longer protection. Reapplication every two hours is still necessary.
• Broad-spectrum SPF 30 or higher is the baseline recommended by dermatologists.
• The SPF category is evolving — hybrid formulas, skincare-infused options, and convenient formats make it easier than ever to find a product that works for any routine.

CVS is a leader with a proven commitment to sun safety. CVS was the first national retailer to remove all sunscreens under SPF 15, and has recently removed sunscreen with SPF below 30 from its Store Brands assortment. Consumers looking for a sunscreen to add to their routine will find a wide range of sunscreen in many formats and brands available in CVS Pharmacy stores and at CVS.com, along with Beauty Consultants available to help them find the right product for their needs.

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Survey data sourced from the CVS Whole-Body Beauty Brief: SPF Edition, conducted April 2026 among 520 CVS Beauty Consultants across the United States.

We’re helping solve our customers’ big challenges by innovating and delivering solutions that are better for their business and for the environment. Through our Gigaton Challenge, we aim to reduce 1 gigaton of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our customers’ footprints by 2030.

Project At-a-Glance:

The opportunity:

Demonstrate how an energy-intensive data center facility can become a clean, circular energy system.

The solution: 

Trane® XStream™ RTWF high-temperature, high-efficiency heat pump technology.

Sustainability outcomes:

• At full capacity, the system enables Infomaniak to recover 1.7 MW of heat — enough to warm 6,000 energy-efficient homes during winter months or provide 20,000 five-minute showers each day in summer.
• Annual carbon savings of 3,600 tons compared to natural gas combustion or 5,500 tons compared to wood pellet combustion (which also eliminates 200 heavy vehicle delivery trips).

When the sprawling underground Infomaniak Data Center complex officially inaugurated in January 2025, it set a new benchmark for sustainable digital infrastructure. The transformation, which has been operational since November 2024, was accomplished using leading-edge, high-efficiency heat pumps from Trane, a Trane Technologies company. The system allows Infomaniak to recover thermal energy that would otherwise be wasted and use it to supply the nearby residential district’s heating network.

A case study in waste heat re-use

Infomaniak is an atypical data center in that it is located entirely underground, beneath a park in an eco-neighbourhood in Geneva, Switzerland. Designed to accommodate around 10,000 servers, the data center comprises roughly 19,000-square-foot space.

The center is powered entirely by locally-sourced renewable energy, 100% of which is subsequently recovered as heat. In other words, all the electricity consumed by the center’s servers, inverters, ventilation and other components is entirely recovered as heat at approximately 40–45°C (104–113°F).

This remarkable achievement is made possible by a high-performance waste heat recovery system, which uses the recovered heat to supply the nearby residential district’s heating network.

“The Infomaniak site in Geneva demonstrates a model that can influence cloud infrastructure developments worldwide, proving that performance and sustainability can go hand in hand.”

Lauri Salmia
Applied Portfolio Manager, Trane Technologies

Data center energy efficiency by design

Infomaniak’s underground location beneath a residential development presented both a challenge and an opportunity. The data center was designed to integrate seamlessly with its surroundings, turning what could have been a source of noise and waste heat into a valuable community asset that reduces the environmental impact normally associated with data centers.

“For a very long time, we have chosen to power our data centers exclusively with renewable electricity,” said Thomas Jacobsen, Infomaniak Spokesperson. “Since 2013, we have eliminated the use of dedicated air conditioning systems for our infrastructure. The biggest lever we had left to further reduce our environmental impact was to recover all the heat we release into the atmosphere after using electricity for storage, computing and AI. That’s the logic behind this thermal recovery system: using Trane’s high-efficiency, heat pump technology to connect our facility to the district heating network and make energy recovery central to our operations.”

This data center achieves an average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.09, among the best in the world, compared to the European average of 1.6. Its Energy Reuse Factor (ERF) averages 0.95, meaning 95% of consumed energy is reused as heat.

The industry-leading efficiency of our heat pumps wasn’t the only reason Trane Technologies was selected for the Infomaniak project. XStream™ equipment operates on near-zero global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants. The implementation team at Trane Technologies also worked closely with architects, designers and contractors to solve other issues on site, such as potential noise pollution.

Two modes of operation

Infomaniak’s cooling system was designed to work without traditional chillers. Instead, two Trane® XStream™ RTWF heat pumps capture server heat and raise its temperature from 45°C to 67°C (113°F to 152.6°F) in summer and up 85°C (185°F) in winter, making it suitable for the district heating network’s seasonal requirements. The cold released during the compression process is simultaneously used to cool the servers back to around 28°C (82.4°F)—meaning the heat pumps serve a dual purpose: heating the district network and cooling the data center. The system operates entirely in a closed loop, with no water consumption and no atmospheric discharge.

In summer, the recovered heat is used for domestic hot water production. If the heat pumps are temporarily unavailable—for example, during maintenance or when the heating network temporarily cannot absorb the recovered energy—the system switches to direct free cooling using filtered outside air, a backup method Infomaniak has relied on across its data centers since 2013.

Massive carbon savings

At full capacity, Infomaniak’s system recovers 1.7 megawatts of heat continuously—enough to warm 6,000 energy-efficient homes in winter or provide 20,000 five-minute showers each day in summer.

The system annually generates an estimated 14.9 GWh of output. Compared to natural gas combustion, this saves 3,600 tons of carbon per year. Compared to wood pellet combustion, the savings jump to 5,500 tons—a figure that excludes the additional emissions and particulate pollution from the 200 heavy vehicle trips needed to transport those pellets.

Infomaniak is currently operating at 50% capacity but is expected to reach full operational capacity by 2028. It is estimated that the center will be supplying heat to Geneva’s district heating network for at least two decades.

“Infomaniak serves as a powerful model for data center designers worldwide,” said Lauri Salmia, Applied Portfolio Manager at Trane Technologies. “It demonstrates how energy-intensive facilities can be transformed into sustainable community resources and how major digital infrastructure can integrate seamlessly into urban environments.”

The project’s impact has been widely recognized, earning both the Swiss Ethics Prize and the Cantonal Sustainable Development Prize. More importantly, it proves that high-performance digital infrastructure and environmental responsibility aren’t competing priorities—they’re complementary goals that, with the right data center cooling solutions and vision, can be achieved together.

See how we’re making sustainability scalable. Read our latest Sustainability Report.

LEEDS, England, July 30, 2026 /3BL/ – Antea Group UK is pleased to announce that Eoin Coughlan, Junior Consultant, Land and Water Quality, and Olivia Hanley, Junior Flood Risk Consultant, have been appointed to the Environment Analyst UK Early Careers Advisory Board.

Established by the Environment Analyst Leadership Network, the UK Early Careers Advisory Board brings together early career professionals from across the environmental and sustainability consulting sector to help address one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: attracting, developing, and retaining the next generation of talent.

According to Environment Analyst market research, the global environmental and sustainability consulting sector will require an additional 126,000 full-time employees by 2027, including approximately 18,000 in the UK. The Early Careers Advisory Board was created to help tackle this challenge by promoting career opportunities, sharing professional development advice, and helping students and young professionals better understand careers within the sector.

As members of the board, Eoin and Olivia will collaborate with peers from across the industry to engage with schools, universities, and individuals beginning their careers, helping raise awareness of the diverse opportunities available in environmental and sustainability consulting.

“I wanted to become part of the Early Careers Advisory Board because I recently transitioned from education into employment myself and understand many of the challenges and uncertainties that young people face when starting their careers,” said Eoin. “I’m a strong advocate for knowledge and experience sharing and believe diverse perspectives can play a significant part in both personal and professional growth. I hope to extend a small part of the guidance and encouragement that has helped shape my career so far with those exploring their own career paths.

“I’m also passionate about encouraging people to apply an environmental and sustainability lens to whatever career they choose to pursue. I look forward to collaborating with fellow board members to showcase the wide range of opportunities available across our industry and inspire more people to consider careers that make a positive impact.”

Olivia added: “I wanted to be part of the Early Careers Advisory Board because I know from my own experience that getting into the environmental sector isn’t always easy. There can be a lot of uncertainty when you’re starting out, and the support and opportunities I received really helped me build my confidence. I want to help make the sector feel more accessible, raise awareness of the different career paths available, and encourage more people to consider a career in the environment and sustainability sector. I’m excited to work with the rest of the board to help create opportunities and make a positive difference for people starting their careers.”

These appointments reflect Antea Group UK’s commitment to investing in people, supporting professional development, and helping shape the future of the environmental and sustainability profession. Through their involvement with the Environment Analyst Early Careers Advisory Board, Eoin and Olivia will contribute valuable insight into attracting and developing the next generation of environmental professionals. Their participation will also strengthen Antea Group UK’s own approach to early careers, talent development and industry collaboration, ensuring the business continues to evolve its people strategy while helping inspire more young people to pursue rewarding careers tackling today’s most pressing environmental challenges.

To learn more about careers at Antea Group UK, visit Antea Group UK’s careers page.

About Antea Group UK

Antea® Group is an environment, health, safety, and sustainability consultancy. By combining strategic thinking with technical expertise, we do more than effectively solve client challenges; we deliver sustainable results for a better future. We work in partnership with and advise many of the world’s most sustainable companies to address ESG business challenges in a way that fits their pace and unique objectives. Our consultants equip organisations to better understand threats, capture opportunities and find their position of strength. We maintain a global perspective on ESG issues through not only our work with multinational clients, but also through our sister organisations in Europe, Asia, and Latin America and as a founding member of the Inogen Alliance. 

Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft-focused organization, is celebrating international recognition for groundbreaking research that advances speech care for children with cleft lip and palate.

An article authored by Dr. Catherine (Cate) Crowley, a member of Smile Train’s Global Medical Advisory Board, has received the Best Paper Award in the Pediatric/Craniofacial category from Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS). PRS is the official publication of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and is one of the world’s leading peer-reviewed medical journals in plastic surgery.

The award-winning paper was published as part of a special cleft-focused edition of PRS sponsored by Smile Train. Released in October, the issue brought together research from Smile Train partners and Global Medical Advisory Board members highlighting innovations in comprehensive cleft care and showcasing the organization’s global impact.

Dr. Crowley’s research explores an innovative, evidence-based approach to speech intervention that has already been adopted by many Smile Train partners around the world. The recognition underscores the growing importance of comprehensive cleft care and interdisciplinary treatment models that address not only surgery, but also the speech, nutrition, dental, psychosocial, and long-term needs of children born with clefts.

“This award reflects the expertise of our Medical Advisory Board members and the incredible work of our global network of partners by reinforcing the importance of evidence-based, multidisciplinary cleft care,” said Sara Horne, Director of Education and Training and Global Speech and Hearing Lead at Smile Train. “We are proud to see this research recognized by one of the field’s most respected journals.”

The honor highlights the organization’s continued investment in research, innovation, and local capacity building to improve cleft care worldwide. By supporting clinicians, researchers, and multidisciplinary teams, Smile Train helps expand access to high-quality, comprehensive care for children and families in more than 75 countries.

Proprietary carbon capture solution selected for large-scale, flexible power generation

SLB Capturi™ has been selected as the preferred carbon capture technology licensor for Uniper’s proposed Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power (CQLCP) project in Deeside, United Kingdom. The selection follows a competitive front-end engineering and design process that began in December 2024.

“This project represents an important opportunity to apply SLB Capturi carbon capture technology at scale in power generation,” said Guillaume Verhaeghe, chief executive officer of SLB Capturi. “Our solution has been configured to support flexible operation of the gas turbines while capturing carbon dioxide efficiently. We look forward to supporting Uniper as the project progresses.”

Carbon capture designed for flexible power generation

The power station would use SLB Capturi’s Big Catch™ technology, a customized, amine-based carbon capture solution for large-scale applications. For CQLCP, the technology has been configured to respond to changing electricity demand and variable renewable power generation.

The design incorporates SLB Capturi’s anti-mist and energy saver systems to support low emissions to air and high energy efficiency. It builds on carbon capture technology with process technology and a range of solvents developed since 2008 through thousands of hours of commercial testing, feasibility and engineering studies, and experience across eight plants in operation or under delivery.

The technology is designed to capture carbon dioxide efficiently from lower-concentration emissions, including those produced by gas-fired power generation. SLB Capturi has worked with Siemens Energy and other gas turbine original equipment manufacturers for more than five years on carbon capture applications for gas-fired power generation.

If the project reaches a final investment decision and engineering, procurement and construction contracts are awarded, it would represent SLB Capturi’s first carbon capture deployment in mega-scale gas-fired power, while the current SLB Capturi plants in delivery and operation have been focused on cement, waste-to-energy and bioenergy production. The project complements the SLB Capturi track record with more than 30 projects in advanced development, under construction or in operation.

Supporting lower-carbon power for the UK grid

The CQLCP project would be built on land next to Uniper’s existing power station, capturing carbon dioxide from the facility’s emissions while supplying electricity to the UK grid.

The captured carbon dioxide would be transported to nearby carbon dioxide pipeline infrastructure being developed as part of the HyNet industrial cluster and permanently stored in repurposed depleted gas fields offshore. HyNet is intended to support emissions reduction from power generation and industrial facilities across northwest England and North Wales.

Uniper is working toward a potential capacity of up to a maximum of 1.38 GW of low-carbon power, developed in two phases. Following completion of phase one, the project could supply enough electricity to power the equivalent of around 1.1 million homes a year.

SLB Capturi worked with Worley and Siemens Energy during the engineering phase. If the project advances, its expected scope would include licensing proprietary technology, supplying proprietary equipment, participating in the integrated project management team, and supporting detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover.

The project is progressing through the development consent process and toward a final investment decision. A decision on the Development Consent Order application is expected in the coming months, and the first phase could potentially be operational from 2030.

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Originally published on TriplePundit
By Amy Brown

This article is sponsored by P&G

Sustainable land management practices like regenerative agriculture and responsible forestry offer huge promise as a climate solution, with the potential to contribute over a quarter of the emissions reductions necessary to achieve the goals of the Paris agreement. This suite of practices, from cover-cropping and crop rotation to forest conversion avoidance and wildlife preservation, aim to protect and restore the health of the world’s soils — which increases their ability to capture carbon from the air and store it underground.

“Healthy soil is a living ecosystem that’s full of microbes, fungi, insects, and other organisms that cycle nutrients and store carbon,” says Gabrielle Katanic, farm operations business manager at Lundberg Family Farms.

Given the climate-fighting power of regenerative agriculture, a growing segment of farmers, land managers, and consumer goods companies are working to integrate more of these practices into the way they grow the world’s food and forest-based products.

For the regenerative organic rice brand Lundberg Family Farms, it’s about going back to the roots. The company’s founders left Nebraska in the wake of the Dust Bowl in 1937, bringing a “leave the land better than you found it” philosophy to California rice farming. Today, Lundberg aims to celebrate those time-honored agricultural practices as climate solutions and work with partners to scale them further. “It’s the way we’ve always done things,” Katanic says. “Now there’s a word for what we’re doing that goes beyond organic.”

Lundberg is far from the only consumer brand with regenerative ag on the radar. And that’s a good thing, because collaboration among the many stakeholders in the agricultural system is what’s required for these practices to really make a difference in the fight against climate change.

In another powerful example, the oat drink producer Oatly partners with farmers and oat mills to co-design a regenerative agriculture program that respects farmers’ insight into their land and their livelihoods. The rotation of diverse crops, including oats, is a winning practice for growers and producers as well as local biodiversity.

Off the field and in the forest, P&G — maker of Bounty, Puffs and Charmin — works globally to build the resilience of ecosystems in the landscapes critical to the future of responsible forestry.

“We make paper products, so that’s why we need healthy trees and forests,” says Chris Reeves, Certified Forester and director of scientific communications for P&G Paper. “The link between responsible forest management and our business needs is direct and evident.”

All three companies, despite differences in products and size of operations, are aligned in their commitment to regenerative practices and what it means for the long-term viability of their business and the planet.

Their united vision has three essential ingredients: collaboration, third-party verification and biodiversity at the core.

TriplePundit spoke with each of these leaders to learn more about what they’re doing and what they’ve learned that can be scaled across the sector.

Coming together to build impact at scale

With growers deploying a vast array of practices, regenerative land management doesn’t look the same for any single company or its suppliers. But Lundberg Family Farms, Oatly and P&G all agree that scaling this work depends on bringing everyone who has a stake in the effort on board.

Lundberg Family Farms’ duck rescue efforts are a prime example. When preparing to mow their winter cover crops to prep the fields for rice planting, the Lundbergs noticed that ducks had been nesting in the fields. So as not to destroy the nests with farm equipment, they linked up with local hatcheries, the California Department of Fish and Game, the California Waterfowl Association, and other NGOs to save them.

This simple effort based on mutual goals of sustainable agriculture and biodiversity has saved an estimated 30,000 baby ducks so far, Katanic says. It’s among many of the company’s wildlife habitat, soil health and water management efforts in partnership with local organizations.

Oatly has similarly ambitious goals that only collaboration will make possible. The company’s sustainability strategy is based on a framework that classifies its products as “climate solutions,” which means they have at least 50 percent less climate impact than the average impact of the milk category. Maintaining that classification and reducing the company’s overall corporate footprint requires the company to focus on the largest driver of its corporate emissions: its ingredients and in particular, its oats. Because oats grow best in rotation with other crops, Oatly recognized it would be an unfair burden to ask farmers to change how they grow only one crop. So the company actively seeks other brands that are buying the rest of the crops grown in rotation.

“It’s unfair for Oatly to come to a farmer and say, ‘I’d like you to grow your oats in this way,’ while ignoring that oats are being grown in rotation with several other commodities,” says Erin Augustine, vice president of global sustainability at Oatly. “In an ideal world, we would have a standard program that applies to all of their commodities, in which a group of brands has all agreed upon the regen practices for the year.”

In one step closer toward this end, Oatly joined 20 other food companies including Whole Foods in the Wilding project. Led by the NGO Mad Agriculture, the effort to bring wildlife back to farms is one of the largest regenerative agriculture collaborations to date.

Another multi-brand initiative is the Trusted Advisor Partnership based in Canada, led by agrononomists who provide food and beverage brands, scientific researchers, and NGOs with soil health training to help them implement better soil health practices in their operations. Oatly, Grain Millers, Bob’s Red Mill and Louis Dreyfus Co. are among the company partners.

Oatly aims to source the equivalent of 100 percent of its oats from suppliers using regenerative practices by 2050. “We estimate that this will result in a 94 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions,” Augustine says. Oatly’s program in Canada shows what’s possible, reaching 20 percent equivalent regeneratively grown supply in the first three years.

Industry-wide connections like these are as important in the forest as they are on the farm. Since pulp is one of a handful of products sourced from a tree (lumber, bark for mulch, sawdust for energy), the full forest value chain needs to work together to scale responsible forestry, says Reeves of P&G.

“If you just show up as the only one asking for something, you’ll get a couple things here and there, but you’re really not going to make that systematic change,” Reeves says.

This approach goes hand-in-hand with P&G’s “Protect, Grow, Restore” Framework to help protect, restore, or improve priority landscapes in partnership with conservation organizations and small landowners.

Third-party certification ensures consistency and builds credibility

To attract the confidence of potential partners as well as consumers, these companies are also increasingly sourcing from suppliers or growers who are third-party certified.

P&G has a policy that 100 percent of the wood pulp it sources is certified by a globally recognized certification system, namely the Forest Stewardship Council, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative or the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification. Each of these include criteria related to protecting both the environmental and social value of forests.

To date, 86 percent of the company’s paper product raw materials are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, against an ambition of 100 percent by 2030.

Reeves says that final 14 percent will be the hardest to achieve, requiring continued investment in landowner projects and supply chain engagement. One of the ways P&G makes those investments is through a partnership with the Four States Timberland Association (FSTO) in Arkansas and Louisiana. FSTO bundles small landowners — often non-forestry professionals like nurses, doctors and truck drivers who own parcels ranging from 40 to 100 acres — to provide forest management plans, access to natural resource professionals, and group certification.

With the increasing urgency of climate change, more discerning and demanding consumers, and partners and suppliers with their own sustainability goals, all three company leaders agree a macro mindset is the true key to scaling regenerative agriculture and responsible forestry practices.

“We have this catch-22 where the food system is both contributing to and reacting to the impacts of the changing climate,” says Augustine of Oatly. “And so, of course, that spurs us along to do this work. We’re working on a bigger food system transformation.”

This article is sponsored by P&G.

NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 /3BL/ – Moderate and severe malnutrition rates in children under that age of five have exceeded emergency thresholds in Quetta, the capital of the Baluchistan Province in Pakistan, according to a recent SMART+ nutrition analysis conducted by Action Against Hunger in collaboration with the Department of Health in Baluchistan. The prevalence of combined global acute malnutrition was 29.1%, and severe acute malnutrition was 8.1%, both alarmingly higher than their respective emergency thresholds of 15% and 2%.

“Severe acute malnutrition is potentially deadly for children, and it is heartbreaking because it’s a treatable disease when it’s undertaken soon enough,” says Muhammad Aamir, Country Director for Action Against Hunger in Pakistan.

Chronic malnutrition also remains widespread, with nearly 36% of children stunted, and 14% of them severely stunted. These findings reflect persistent long-term nutritional deprivation and repeated exposure to adverse health and environmental conditions.

The analysis found that the worsening nutritional status and food insecurity in Quetta is driven by a convergence of challenges, including:

• Lack of adequate diet
• High disease burden
• Poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions
• Strong reliance on unstable income sources and
• Environmental shocks, particularly recent droughts

Poor WASH conditions present significant health risks contributing to malnutrition. Heavy reliance on tanker trucks and communal water sources, combined with only 19% of families treating water, heighten the risk of waterborne diseases and repeated infections among children. About 31% of households use inadequate latrines or practice open defecation, and 51% dispose of waste in unofficial dumping sites, increasing environmental contamination.

Moreover, the Food Security and Livelihoods portion of the analysis indicates strong reliance on unstable income sources, with 33% of households engaged in daily wage labor and limited agriculture-based livelihoods. These economic constraints reduce families’ ability to access nutritious diets.

“To effectively tackle malnutrition, we need to emphasize a more integrated approach—expanding nutrition services in the most vulnerable communities, strengthening early screening and follow-up at community level, and making sure that every child who needs treatment can access it.” explains Muhammad Aamir. “At the same time, addressing maternal malnutrition, promoting better infant and young child feeding practices—especially early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months—will be critical. Integrating care for vulnerable infants under six months into routine maternal, newborn child health services will also help ensure that those most at risk are identified and supported early, giving them a much better chance of healthy growth and development.”

Among other recommendations, the SMART analysis report emphasizes the need for better integration between nutrition and WASH activities to reduce illness. Strengthening food security and the economic resilience of households through nutrition-sensitive livelihoods, access to social protection, and the diversification of income sources will also be critical in improving nutrition outcomes in Quetta.

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Key Points

• Marathon Petroleum has been recognized for its commitment to environmental stewardship through management of conservation habitats.
• Six company habitat sites have re-qualified for WHC Certification®, powered by Tandem Global, an international, voluntary sustainability standard.
• In all, the company has nine currently certified conservation sites that cover more than 750 acres. 

Achieving WHC Certification®, powered by Tandem Global, involves far more than checking boxes on an application. It’s a continual process. Documenting and maintaining ongoing benefits are required to meet the world’s only voluntary sustainability standard for biodiversity enhancement and conservation education on corporate landholdings.

“Companies achieving WHC Certification are environmental leaders, voluntarily managing their lands to support sustainable ecosystems and the communities that surround them,” said Margaret O’Gorman, Chief Executive Officer, Tandem Global.

 

At its 2026 annual conference, Tandem Global, formerly Wildlife Habitat Council and World Environment Center, recognized certification renewals for six conservation habitats owned and maintained by assets across Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) and its midstream segment, MPLX: 

• Savage Branch Wildlife Reserve – Catlettsburg, Kentucky, refinery
• Marathon Gardens – Detroit, Michigan, refinery
• Pollinator garden – Garyville, Louisiana, refinery
• Aviary and pollinator habitat – Martinsville, Illinois, tank farm
• Washington Park – Robinson, Illinois, refinery
• Prairie Park – St. Paul Park, Minnesota, refinery

 

WHC Certification has three tiers: Certified and Certified Silver that stay current for two years, and a three-year Certified Gold designation. The Catlettsburg and Detroit habitats earned Certified Silver status, and the other four sites received Certified honors.  

Certified programs need to have at least one qualifying habitat, species or education project. Projects must exceed any relevant regulatory requirements, have a conservation or conservation education objective, and provide documented, measurable outcomes.  

 

Managing the habitats across MPC and MPLX involves hundreds of employee volunteer hours. Tasks range from hosting school field trips to monitoring wildlife populations.  
 
“Species observations include detailing the level of activity around nesting structures for birds,” said Regina Cooper, a lead training specialist at MPC’s Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City, Texas, and a volunteer at the refinery’s conservation habitat. “Tandem Global wants to see continuous improvement from programs, requiring adequate monitoring to provide data that can be evaluated over time.” 

In all, MPC and MPLX have nine WHC-certified sites that cover more than 750 acres. Beyond the six highlighted this year, three locations gained certification renewals in prior years. The Galveston Bay refinery site has a Certified Gold designation that extends through 2027. Additionally, a second habitat at the Robinson refinery earned Certified Silver recognition and a site at the Canton, Ohio, refinery qualified for Certified status, both of which remain in effect through 2026.