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Responsible Production & Consumption

Top Trends in the Plastics Industry Stemming From Global Megatrends

According to the United Nations (UN), five megatrends are shaping the world today:

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

World Federation of Youth Clubs Announces 2022 Promise Awards Recipients

World Federation of Youth Clubs (WFYC) recently announced the 2022 Promise Awards recipients during its second annual celebration.

Environment

Criminal Culpability for Corporate 'Greenwashing'

As greenwashing concerns surge, new report declares existing criminal code sufficient, rise in enforcement inevitable.

Energy

Electric Vehicles: Fact vs. Fiction (Part Three)

If the fear of being stuck on the roadside with a dead electric vehicle battery is preventing you from considering an EV, watch the third episode of our video series “EVs: Fact vs. Fiction.”

Responsible Production & Consumption

Consumer Products at Paramount

While we do not directly manufacture any products, we encourage our partners and suppliers to move toward more sustainable production, packaging, and distribution processes.

Diversity & Inclusion

IBM, Hispanic Heritage Foundation Providing Free SkillsBuild Tech Courses to Latino Students

The Hispanic Heritage Foundation has partnered with IBM Education to provide IBM's SkillsBuild education program to Latino high school students free of charge, giving them skills they need to meet workforce demands.

Diversity & Inclusion

How Grantmakers Can Reduce Bias in Decision Making

To help you and your team, we’ve laid out common types of bias as well as step-by-step instructions to minimize its impact on your decision making processes.

Innovation & Technology

How Three Dynamic Startups Are Changing the World

Three dynamic startups — WonderTree, Positive Carbon, and M-SCAN — were each awarded a Second Runner-Up Prize of $50,000 USD in the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2022.

Environment

Transforming Manufacturing Waste to Protect the Environment

In Bosconero, Italy, Eaton is reducing our site’s environmental footprint, slashing waste to landfill, and lowering our consumption of raw materials with a different approach to the grinding sludge produced in our oil filtration activities.

Health & Healthcare

Sesame Workshop and Quest Diagnostics Team Up to Address Health and Well-Being Inequities With Resources Connecting Parents and Healthcare Providers

Sesame Workshop and Quest Diagnostics today announced a new nationwide program to address health and well-being inequities among young children, particularly in low-income, rural, and marginalized communities.

Research, Reports & Publications

Companies Are Improving As Climate Policy Advocates, but They Aren’t Holding Their Trade Associations Accountable

The report, Responsible Policy Engagement Analysis 2022: How Companies Are — and Aren’t — Leading on Climate Policy, examines the climate-related risk management, governance and lobbying practices of more than 100 S&P 100 companies.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

U.S. Bank Named One of the 100 Best Companies for Working Parents

For Seramount, formerly Working Mother, ranked U.S. Bank as one of the 100 Best Companies for working parents based on the company’s programs and benefits, including parental leave, fertility benefits, adoption, caregiver benefits, mentoring, and opportunities for advancement.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Excellent Customer Experiences Begin With Excellent Customer Service

Since launching our Power Values, NRG continues to be a customer-driven organization. We do this by understanding and delivering compelling energy solutions that meet the needs of our current and future customers.

Environment

New Partnership Enlists Mars Employees To Tackle Marine Debris

A partnership developed by Mars, Incorporated is sending corporate employees on remote expeditions to help solve the problem of marine debris.

Research, Reports & Publications

How Aker Horizons Embedded ESG Within its Annual Report

Aker Horizons is a developer of green energy and green industry. And they’re on a mission. Founded in 2020 by Norwegian industrial investment firm Aker ASA, its exclusive focus is to support the companies that can accelerate the race to net zero.

Health & Healthcare

IGB Gene Drive Aims To Broaden Science Accessibility

Advances in genomic studies have now permeated all aspects of our lives from agriculture to health and wellness. It is therefore becoming increasingly important to help the community understand these innovations so that they can navigate the increasingly complex realm of genomics.

Energy

Duke Energy Proposes New Programs To Help Grow South Carolina Economy by Helping Customers Use 100% Renewable Energy

Duke Energy has proposed the creation of innovative customer renewable programs and a major expansion of an existing one to allow South Carolina customers the option to supplement their power usage with 100% renewable power.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Eyes of the World: SPLC Delegation Tells UN Committee of Ongoing Racial Discrimination in US

Terrance Winn was just 17 when he was sent to Angola in Louisiana, one of the country’s most infamously brutal prisons, built on the site of a former slave plantation.

Research, Reports & Publications

ImpactAssets Releases 2022 Impact Report, Highlighting Rapid Mobilization of Private Capital Into Key Issue Areas, Including Racial Equity, Climate Solutions and Gender Equality

ImpactAssets, a leading impact investing firm, released its 2022 Impact Report capturing the crucial role that impact investing plays in enabling investment solutions to solve the world's greatest challenges.

Diversity & Inclusion

Truth Before Reconciliation

How can Indigenous Peoples, governments, companies & individuals work together towards a better future, considering our difficult history? What is reconciliation? Join Sona Khosla as she asks Melissa Nelson on this episode of Speaking of Purpose.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies Named One of the World's Best Employers by Forbes

Trane Technologies has been named to Forbes’ list of the World’s Best Employers for the second consecutive year.

Innovation & Technology

Transformation, Innovation and Citizenship: How Lenovo Is Building a Positive Future

Lenovo leads the way with technology to transform the way we live and work, offering innovative end-to-end solutions to enrich workplaces, cities, and people’s daily lives.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Dow Leaders Again Recognized on HERoes Women Role Model Lists

Dow announced that 4 of its leaders have earned recognition on 2022 HERoes Women Role Model lists, which are supported by Yahoo Finance and showcase leaders who are championing women in business and driving change for gender diversity.

Diversity & Inclusion

Widening the Employment Lens To Include Neurodiversity

When someone says “neurodiversity,” what do you think of? Dyslexia? Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder? Autism spectrum disorder? Maybe even social anxiety?

Education

Turning Classrooms Into Living Laboratories To Engage Students, Improve Nutrition, and Create Thriving Communities

Green Bronx Machine is an innovative, award-winning program that transforms hearts, minds, and futures by empowering students in low-income communities through learning experiences shaped by urban agriculture.

Latest Campaigns

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    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  2. Nutrition and Health
    Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
  3. Health and Safety by Antea Group
    Antea Group's health and safety consultants understand what it takes to help make a positive impact on safety culture. Read blogs, insights, and more...
  4. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  5. Retail Logistics
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  6. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...
  7. Accelerating access to healthcare technology
    We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...
  8. IWBI | WELL Building Standard
    Our built environment can shape our habits and choices, regulate our sleep-wake cycle, drive us toward healthy and unhealthy choices, and passively...
  9. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  10. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  11. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  12. Kids to College Powered by Entergy
    Entergy believes in the dreams of the families we serve. Everyone deserves the opportunity to continue their education and, as a corporate leader and...
  13. Financial health
    At Wells Fargo, we're opening pathways to economic advancement for racially and ethnically diverse and low- and moderate-income individuals and...
  14. KeyBank: Responsible Banking
    Everyone’s financial journey is different. We make intentional efforts to meet the individual needs of clients and communities through a diverse range...
  15. AEG Celebrates Inclusion
    At AEG, we embrace inclusion and strive to create a workplace where our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected for the viewpoints, ideas...