Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

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What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Transforming the Circular Economy

Avoiding virgin materials and utilizing recycled materials, as well as using energy efficient vehicles for transport helps us reduce our contribution to waste and carbon emissions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Driving Conversations About Ethics

We all know that strong ethics are important. We conduct ethics training and talk about our values all the time, but what does ethical behavior really mean in real-life decision-making and actions every day?

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Merck Announces Additional $150M Investment Through 2025 to Help End Maternal Mortality Inequities

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced an additional $150 million commitment through Merck for Mothers to further advance the initiative’s mission of helping create a world where no woman has to die giving life.

Events, Media & Communications

Workiva to Host Virtual CFO Roundtable With the UN Global Compact CFO Taskforce and the New York Stock Exchange

The CFO Media Roundtable: Uniting CFOs Towards a Better World is an exclusive thought leadership event for CFOs and business leaders to discuss the evolving ESG mandates facing multinational organizations and the new role CFOs will play in building a sustainable future for all.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Remembering Dr. King Through Community Service and a $1 Million Foundation Grant

In 1983, legislation passed to make the third Monday in January a federal holiday honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Creating Cross-Sector Talent Development Wins

Offering upskilling opportunities is a priority for any company that values its employees’ continuous growth and success. Skills-based volunteering facilitates professional development while giving back to nonprofits and the community.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Valued Volunteers

Hortensia Dean and her siblings grew up in a household where community service was not only encouraged, but a regular family activity. “We would go visit people in nursing homes, and sing and do other things like that.”

Environment

KFC® and Beyond Meat® Debut Much-anticipated Beyond Fried Chicken Nationwide Beginning January 10

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Beyond Meat® are kicking off the new year with a Kentucky Fried Miracle as the highly-anticipated plant-based Beyond Fried Chicken makes its nationwide debut.

Energy

Rockwell Automation's Pursuit of Carbon Neutrality Underway With 19 Energy Reduction Projects

Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) completed 10 global energy conservation projects in fiscal year 2021 that are projected to eliminate more than 4,500 metric tons of CO2 annually.

Environment

North Carolina Coastal Land Trust and Enviva Forest Conservation Fund Protect Historic Wetlands of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary

A nearly 800-acre property in Bertie and Hertford Counties in North Carolina has been permanently conserved thanks to a purchase by the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, with assistance from The Enviva Forest Conservation Fund.

Education

CooperSurgical Center of Excellence

CooperSurgical (CSI) hosted 65 educational webinars in 2020 to provide practitioners with new skills and knowledge.

Innovation & Technology

Empowering Small Business Owners in Indonesia: Meet Rangga

Learn how Mastercard Academy 2.0 is working to empower 100,000 Indonesians, like Rangaa, with the skills they need to succeed in the digital economy.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Listen Up! Doing Corporate Citizenship Better, Together - January 2022

We are thrilled to welcome Jeannette Ferran Astorga, the Chief Sustainability Officer for Zoetis, to share how animal care can be a part of any company's transformative employee volunteering strategy for the first Listen Up! Show of 2022. Register!

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Morgan Stanley Launches Initiative to Advance Equity in Education and Career Outcomes for Underrepresented Groups

Morgan Stanley announced the launch of the Institute for Inclusion’s (IFI) Equity in Education and Career Consortium.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Timberland Gives Worn Items a New Life Through Timberloop™ Take-Back Program

Starting today, Timberland’s new Timberloop™ product take-back program will be available both online and in stores across the United States.

Environment

Tetra Tech's Jill Manning Hudkins Discusses Supporting Clients' Water Infrastructure Projects With Industry-Leading Solutions

As the Global Practice Leader for One Water programs at Tetra Tech, Jill Manning Hudkins is well versed in sustainability, resiliency, and technology approaches that are being implemented across North America and beyond.

Environment

Trane Technologies' Thermo King to Reduce Global Warming Potential of Transport Refrigeration by Nearly Fifty Percent

Thermo King®, the transport refrigeration brand of global climate innovator Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), announced it will be first in the industry to transition to a lower global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant as standard in its truck and trailer units.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Alibaba Tops Greenpeace's Climate Action Rankings Among China E-Commerce Platforms

Alibaba Group has taken the lead among Chinese e-commerce platforms in combatting climate change, according to climate activist Greenpeace.

Education

Truist Commits $1.25M to UGA Innovation District

The University of Georgia has received a grant of $1.25 million from the Truist Foundation and SunTrust Trusteed Foundations to establish the Truist Community Innovation Initiative.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

THE PICTURE: Self-Actualization in Action

When Lynn Penny, vice president of human resources with Koch Global Services, started working for Koch more than two decades ago, she never could have anticipated where her career would take her.

Innovation & Technology

Finding the Right Balance Between Energy Savings and Network Performance

Going forward, energy efficiency will need to be put even more in focus as CSPs will require an effective power-aware scheme to maximize energy savings during low traffic periods and reduce energy waste during traffic peak hours.

Health & Healthcare

Quest Convened Top CEOs to Address Health Inequities in Underserved Communities in Modern Healthcare Webinar

Quest sponsored the Modern Healthcare webinar, “Collaborating to address health inequities in underserved communities.”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How COVID Has Affected Our Priorities

In a recent consumer attitudes survey from Tetra Pak and Ipsos, we can see how the global pandemic has rewired consumers’ priorities and behaviors.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Illumina Donates Over $14 Million to Local Communities and Volunteers More Than 6,000 Hours in 2021

As we wrap up 2021, we would like to thank our employees for giving back to our communities around the world.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Built In Honors Workiva in Its Esteemed 2022 Best Places To Work Awards

Built In, an online community dedicated to helping tech professionals and job seekers, released its annual Best Places to Work lists.

Latest Campaigns

  1. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  2. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  3. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  4. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  5. Community Impact
    Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.
  6. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    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...
  7. EVP Campaign
    Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
  8. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  9. GoDaddy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
    Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...
  10. Opportunity for All
    At Trane Technologies, uplifting our communities and workforce is the key to our continued success. We focus on broadening access to education...
  11. Purposeful Technology
    Keysight helps build a better planet through our sustainably developed electronic measurement solutions that accelerate innovations to change lives...
  12. Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator
    The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially...
  13. Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
    Vision of Milano Cortina 2026 The Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 is the first Olympic winter Games planned and organised under Olympic...
  14. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...