Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Sustainable Development Goals

Hershey Makes Bold Environmental Commitments

Hershey has set ambitious new goals to reduce its global emissions in line with the global best practice of the Paris Climate Agreement, to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

Research, Reports & Publications

Bloomberg Impact Report 2020: Message from Mike Bloomberg

Governments are eager to respond to the fallout from the pandemic in ways that make their economies stronger, more sustainable and more resilient.

Research, Reports & Publications

Black & Veatch Report: Corporate Sustainability Goals Are Here to Stay, but Delivering Tangible Results Remains a Challenge

Companies of all sizes across business sectors are elevating sustainability as a core tenet of their practices, yet a new Black & Veatch report discovers that many companies continue to establish targets without a clear understanding of how to achieve them.

Health & Healthcare

Empowering Educators to Transform Into Trauma-Informed Schools

Today’s educators have one of the hardest jobs in the world. On any given day, they are asked to serve not only as teachers, but as coaches, artists, translators, and a host of other roles, as well.

Diversity & Inclusion

Biogen Employees Engage in a Week-Long Series of Open Dialogues to Enhance DE&I Understanding

Inspired by employees’ ideas and engagement, Biogen’s event included virtual conversations and opportunities to learn about DE&I within the company, the broader healthcare system and the wider world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Getting the Most Out of Your Parental Leave

At Workiva, our parental leave policy helps us attract and retain top-tier talent that is critical to our success. It also helps support the personal and financial needs of employees during a joyful but tough time of enormous transition.

Diversity & Inclusion

Groundbreaking New Fund Launches to Support Women in Global Value Chains

A first-of-its-kind collaborative funding initiative, the Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains, launches today, bringing together corporate investors,

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Beyond the Field with Warrick Dunn

Truist is an Official Retail Bank of the NFL. There are many sides to Warrick Dunn – father, son, former NFL athlete and founder of Warrick Dunn Charities to name a few. We’re giving you an exclusive look at them all. Let’s go #BeyondTheField and inside Warrick’s locker.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Purnima Padmanabhan: Passion Principle

"When you find that joy for what you do, long hours or a few sleepless nights won’t matter. You’ll find yourself feeding off the passion, learning from your failures and pushing on to realize your goals."

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

GreenMoney's 6th Annual all-Videos issue

The new all-videos features a variety of innovators from the interconnected worlds of Impact Investing, Corporate Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability and Renewable Energy

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Reimagining Zero Waste: Five New Ways to Recognize Your Waste Diversion Success

With the launch of our new Zero Waste Certification Program, SCS has made it possible for more companies and in particular, individual facilities within larger corporate structures, to participate in a zero waste program and be recognized for the waste diversion, re-use and recycling that they are already doing.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Benevity Sees Exponential Surge in Searches for Nonprofits Providing COVID-19 Support in India

Benevity announces 7 of the top 10 searches on their platform in April 2021 were directly related to the COVID-19 crisis in India, indicating a strong desire for companies and their people to find & support organizations that are providing relief.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Creating a Sustainable Future Is a Continuous Commitment

At Georgia-Pacific we strive to be a preferred partner and drive continuous improvement to create sustainable outcomes that benefit society.

Watch the GP sustainability team’s first episode of In the Loop, a newscast discussing the Principles of Progress and other sustainability topics.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

DiversityInc Names Rockwell Automation to Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups, Noteworthy Companies Lists

DiversityInc named Rockwell Automation as one of its 2021 Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups and to its Noteworthy Companies for Diversity list.

Energy

Vernon Hills Park District Offsets Electrical Costs Using Trane's Renewable Energy Solutions

Vernon Hills Park District, in collaboration with Trane® by Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator, has installed a rooftop solar array at its maintenance facility that produces enough energy to offset 70% of the building’s

Social Impact & Volunteering

How Digital Training Content Helps Refugees, Youth, and Young Adults Shape Their Careers

Deloitte worked with Volunteer Vision, a digital mentoring provider in the corporate volunteering and diversity & inclusion sector, to create an online program that would support youth and young adults on their path to employment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Fifth Third Joins Ceres Company Network; Latest Step in Accelerating Transition to a Sustainable Future

Fifth Third joined a network of companies who commit to achieving robust sustainability goals, improving resiliency in operations & supply chains, and advancing market-based & equitable solutions to the world’s biggest sustainability challenges.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bloomberg Media Expands Bloomberg Equality, Deepening Commitment to Covering Issues of Race, Gender, Diversity, and Fairness

Bloomberg Media today announced the expansion of Bloomberg Equality to elevate issues of race, gender, diversity, and fairness within the governments, companies and societies that it covers.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bacardi Limited Donates $100,000 To Support India COVID-19 Efforts

Funding provided by Bacardi is earmarked to provide immediate assistance to local relief agencies working to mitigate the worsening impact of the coronavirus pandemic in India.

Diversity & Inclusion

Medtronic Receives Its Highest-Ever Ranking on DiversityInc Top 50 List

Medtronic’s move from # 33 in 2020 to # 11 in 2021 on the overall list is one of the largest jumps of any company in the Top 50.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Nominate a Company for the 2021 Fortune Change the World List

Each year, Fortune publishes the Change the World List to celebrate companies and leaders that embrace corporate purpose and recognize how it can add value to business and society.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Henkel Develops Industry's First Bio-Based PUR Hot Melt Adhesive for Consumer Electronics Assembly

In keeping with the company’s sustainability priorities, Henkel announces the development and commercial availability of LOCTITE® HHD 3544F, the industry’s first bio-based polyurethane reactive hot melt designed for consumer electronics assembly.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

United Health Foundation Support Fuels Medical School Charter Graduation

The first cohort of students of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) will be graduating on May 7, 2021.

Energy

Turning the Tide

How do we turn the tide on the mining sector’s “dirty” image and reveal how the mining supply chain and renewables can combine to limit global warming to at or below 2°C?

Media & Communications

Essential Talks Podcast Launches Season 2 by Showcasing Essity's Tork Circularity Innovation

Melting glaciers, more droughts and wilder weather have increased public awareness that we are all equally responsible for climate change. But are we running out of time?

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    Ten years after Superstorm Sandy raged across the East Coast, PSE&G continues to protect customers’ utility service from the damaging impact of...
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    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
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    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
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    KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment helps fulfill Key’s purpose to help clients and communities thrive by financing projects that...
  10. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  11. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...
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    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
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    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
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    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...