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Innovation & Technology

Advanced Power Transmission Technologies Increase Capacity, Expand Distribution Network in Asia

Black & Veatch extends its Breakthrough Overhead Line Design® (BOLD) consultancy services to India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Third-Party Certifier SCS Global Services Joins ResponsibleSteel to Advance the Adoption of Sound Sustainability Practices across the Iron and Steel Supply Chain

SCS Global Services announced today that it has joined ResponsibleSteel, the industry’s first global multi-stakeholder standard and certification programme. As a new member, SCS looks forward to bringing its expertise as a global leader in third-party environmental and sustainability certification to bear on the further development of ResponsibleSteel standards and guidance for this important economic sector.

Research, Reports & Publications

United Nations Global Compact Launches the Ocean Stewardship 2030 Report

The United Nations Global Compact today launched the Ocean Stewardship 2030 report — a roadmap for how ocean-related industries and policymakers jointly can secure a healthy and productive ocean by 2030. According to the report, transparency, cooperation and good standards will enable more sustainable food production, transport and energy production while dramatically improving ocean health.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Boxing up Hunger and Personal Protection Equipment in Chicago

International Paper has donated 10,000 corrugated boxes to Team Rubicon, a nonprofit organization currently managing the Greater Chicago Food Depository for the city of Chicago.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comerica Bank Awards Dillard High School Senior Shatasia Daniels With Inaugural Gift of Knowledge Scholarship

The Comerica Bank Florida Market presented Junior Achievement of South Florida Fellow Shatasia Daniels with its inaugural $1,000 Gift of Knowledge scholarship, which supports a deserving graduating senior who plans to pursue a business degree in college.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Colleagues Making a Difference: Lanette Edwards

Lanette Edwards has spent 30 years of her career with Bechtel. Throughout that time she can tell you one thing has remained a constant: Bechtel people rise to a challenge.

Research, Reports & Publications

Schneider Electric's 2019 - 2020 Sustainability Report

The 2018 – 2020 Schneider Sustainability Impact (SSI) is a collection of our sustainability goals, grouped under five megatrends. We use the SSI to share and measure our progress toward our own sustainability objectives, which are closely tied to the United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Health & Healthcare

What Can We Learn from the Current Covid-19 Crisis on Shaping the Dialogue Between Science and Society?

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted how we work, live, and behave. As the pandemic was expanding, so was the importance of science. Suddenly, I saw researchers and medical experts in the spotlight and playing crucial roles in political...

Health & Healthcare

A Legacy of Helping to Address Viral Pandemics

When I was in college, I learned about the Spanish Flu in a class on the history of medicine. I found the pandemic so fascinating that I reached out to my grandmother Cordelia to ask her about it.

Education

The Dawn of the Digital Learner

With many educational organizations shifting their entire schedules to distance learning tools or full virtual environments indefinitely, never has the statement “we are all in this together” been more poignant.

Innovation & Technology

JLABS @ Washington, DC: The Unique Innovation Hub That's Poised to Help Protect Us From Future Pandemics

It was a year ago this month that Johnson & Johnson Innovation first unveiled plans to launch a healthcare innovation facility in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with BARDA—also known as the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority

Responsible Production & Consumption

Pushing Sustainability Forward Through a Pandemic

The SBTi, which is a collaboration between CDP, the UN Global Compact, World Resources Institute and WWF, independently assesses and validates corporate climate targets against the latest climate science.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ViacomCBS CEO: When Life Brings Us Challenges, Adapt Creatively

Over the past several weeks, we’ve continued to support those impacted by COVID-19 through our global relief efforts, public awareness campaigns, and dedicated programming, as well as flexed what we call our “adaptive creativity.”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mini Stories: Preserving Decades of Music While Giving Back Through Vinyl Sales

To help change this overall tune of financial woe for performers, Rhea Kimbell, owner of Rosina Records, is donating 10 percent of her sales to nonprofits that are helping musicians through this difficult time.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Tetra Tech Recognizes Safety Month 2020: Safer and Stronger Together

On June 1, 2010, Tetra Tech launched its first Safety Month campaign to promote an annual focused safety message as part of the company’s strong safety culture.

Health & Healthcare

Stories from the COVID-19 Front Lines

From the frontlines of healthcare to small businesses and big cities, Fifth Third has seen so many of our customers and partners rise to the challenge as we fight COVID-19.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Hershey Continues to Scale Cocoa Sustainability Efforts

At Hershey, we are driven by our purpose of making more moments of goodness, whether that’s eating S’mores over the campfire or sharing Hershey’s Kisses with a friend.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Preparedness as a Pathway to Resilience in Haiti

In a country like Haiti, with a lack of national social assistance for the poor, households must be self-reliant and proactive to prepare for shocks

Research, Reports & Publications

Results of Survey on Impact of COVID-19 on Companies

Business Call to Action (BCtA) in collaboration with SDG Accelerator, ImpactAim and Connecting Business Initiative (CBi) organized an online survey for enterprises in the first two weeks of April on how the COVID-19 crisis had impacted their business

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LA Galaxy and Herbalife Nutrition Team Up with A Place Called Home to Pack and Deliver Food for Families in Need in Los Angeles

AEG’s LA Galaxy and Herbalife Nutrition recently teamed up with A Place Called Home (APCH) to pack and distribute food for families in need at a Family Resource Depot in the greater Los Angeles area on Wednesday, May 27.

Education

Keeping Communities Connected with STEM Education

While STEM employment grew by 79% since 1990, according to Pew Research Center, diversity and inspiration gaps discourage millions of bright minds from pursuing the array of important STEM jobs.

Research, Reports & Publications

Moody's CSR Report Highlights 2019 Milestones, COVID-19 Efforts

Moody’s Corporation’s newly published annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report highlights the company’s global partnerships and programs that exemplify its purpose of bringing clarity, knowledge and fairness to an interconnected world. It also outlines steps Moody’s is taking to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on its philanthropic partners and communities they serve, including support for small businesses and educational systems.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Taking Responsibility by Managing Impacts

Organizations can now access increased support from GRI to ensure they effectively communicate how they manage their impacts on people and the planet.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Through the End of May 2020, Triple Your Support for COVID-19 Relief with Timberland

The Foundation has pledged $1.5M and will also match your donations 2-to-1 to the GlobalGiving Coronavirus Relief Fund (up to an additional $500,000) to amplify our collective impact.

Research, Reports & Publications

CBRE Group, Inc. Releases 2019 Corporate Responsibility Report With Special Focus on COVID-19

CBRE Group, Inc. has released its 2019 Corporate Responsibility Report, which highlights the company’s accomplishments as an industry leader in responsible business practices.

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