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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Moody's Enhances Flagship Moody's CreditView Platform With ESG Expertise

Moody’s announced recently that it has enhanced Moody’s CreditView, its leading research, data and analytics platform serving credit market professionals, with a wide range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and climate analysis. The expansion of Moody’s CreditView is part of Moody’s broader effort to deliver a comprehensive, integrated suite of ESG solutions to the market and addresses user feedback that extra-financial information and analysis are becoming increasingly important for assessing an issuer’s risk profile.

Diversity & Inclusion

Net Impact Announces Black Professionals Chapter

While the mission and work of Net Impact have long included a focus on race and equity, on our journey towards anti-racism, Net Impact understands that we can and must continuously improve.

Research, Reports & Publications

AccountAbility Releases New Translations of the AA1000 AccountAbility Principles (AA1000AP, 2018) in Spanish, Portuguese, and Bahasa Indonesian

Now Available: Spanish, Portuguese, and Bahasa Indonesian translations of AccountAbility's signature sustainability management framework and guidance document, the AccountAbility Principles (AA1000AP, 2018)

Diversity & Inclusion

Empowering Women in Technology at UPS

Being a woman in a technology-driven career can often mean being the only woman in the room. So, in 2019, UPS launched our Leadership Summit focused on increasing the representation and advancement of women in technology at UPS.

Energy

Report: U.S. Corporate Solar Investments Swell to 8300 Megawatts, Grow 20-Fold Over Last Decade

Fifth Third was the first Fortune 500 company and first bank to achieve 100% renewable power through a single, solar project in 2019.

Diversity & Inclusion

Investors Are Committing to Action on Diversity. Now What?

Amid a wave of societal commitments to action on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and racial justice, investors are stepping up commitments and vowing to intensify engagement with companies on DEI.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Industry Insight: Our Pandemic Recovery Must Be a Green Recovery

Last summer’s devastating bushfires unified communities and politicians with pledges to recover and rebuild. They also ignited the climate change debate, fuelling the push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and their environmental consequences.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comedy Central, MTV and VH1 to Florida: Let People Exercise Their Voting Rights

ViacomCBS’ effort reflects what is increasingly becoming mainstream across corporate America: ensuring all Americans can show up and make their voices heard without confronting any barrier to their voting rights.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Oweesta Receives $5 Million Grant From Wells Fargo to Launch the Native American COVID-19 Disaster Recovery Fund

Oweesta Corporation (Oweesta) announced a $5 million grant from the Wells Open Business Fund, which will enable the Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) intermediary to launch the Native American COVID-19 Disaster Recovery Fund.

Health & Healthcare

Dr. David Satcher to Keynote National School District Wellness Coalition Convening

Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) will host a timely conversation on October 13 about health equity between CEO Rob Bisceglie and the organization’s founder, Dr. David Satcher, 16th surgeon general of the United States

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mohawk Goes Pink: Doing Our Part For a Cure

Since 2001, Mohawk has contributed more than $6 million to Susan G. Komen, the largest breast cancer research organization in the U.S., through corporate donation programs and employee-led initiatives to find a cure.

Environment

Dan Dicker: Turning Oil Green

In the words of the late US Senator Everett Dirksen, “the oil can is mightier than the sword.” Whether it is mightier than the COVID-19 virus remains to be seen, however.

Events, Media & Communications

Biomimicry Fireside Chat: The Nature of Fashion: Moving Towards a Regenerative Model

What can the fashion industry learn from nature’s circularity, and how can industry switch to a regenerative model that builds soil, boosts biodiversity, supports community, and cleans up existing pollution in the process?

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

CBRE Group, Inc. Announces $3 Billion Commitment to Supplier Diversity

CBRE Group, Inc. today announced a pledge to spend $1 billion with diverse suppliers in 2021 and to grow this spend to $3 billion in five years.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Get the Full Picture: The Challenges of Sustainable Food Packaging

Tetra Pak is on a journey to deliver the world's most sustainable food package. Learn why they aim to create packaging soley from plant-based materials that are fully renewable, fully recyclable and carbon neutral in this video.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

The Vita Group joins the RENUVA™ Mattress Recycling Program by Dow

With this announcement, the RENUVA™ Mattress Recycling Program will demonstrate the possibility of closing the loop for post-consumer mattresses and the role of PU in a circular economy.

Environment

Using Science to Do Our Part in Greenhouse Gas Reduction at Hershey

Hershey has been working to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) for a decade now as part of our broader belief in reducing our impact on the planet. More recently, Hershey committed to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) in January 2019 to develop a science-based greenhouse gas reduction goal by January 2021.

Research, Reports & Publications

Fifth Third Bank ESG Report: A Letter from the Chairman, President & CEO

Building sustainable, scalable programs, products and services is how we have a transformative, generational impact on our communities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

STAPLES Center to Serve as General Election Vote Center

The LA Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, LA Sparks, STAPLES Center, AEG and the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder/County Clerk have announced that STAPLES Center will serve as a Vote Center in the upcoming Presidential General Election

Education

How to Keep Students Drug Free and School-Focused

As people continue to practice safe social distancing, the isolation of remaining at home may drive some to seek escape in dangerous ways, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hormel Foods Donates More than 540,000 Pounds of Sausages to Convoy of Hope to Help Combat Hunger

Hormel Foods donates more than 540,000 pounds of foodservice breakfast sausages to Convoy of Hope, a nonprofit with a driving passion to feed the world through feeding initiatives for children, community outreach events & disaster response efforts.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Vistra Donates More Than $250,000 to Food Banks as Pandemic's Hunger Crisis Deepens

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

The 11th Annual Responsible Business Awards 2020 Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for Reuters Events 11th Responsible Business Awards has been announced. The winners will be revealed and celebrated on 8-9 October, during a virtual broadcast to a global audience of over 5,000 senior business executives.

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