Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Dow and Nexus Circular Announce Plans to Build New Advanced Recycling Facility in Dallas, TX, Expediting Circular Plastics Production in USA

The new facility will process and convert over 26,000 MTs of previously non-recycled plastics into highquality circular feedstocks to accelerate sustainable virgin plastics production.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CSRHub Adds Data-Driven ESG Signals From GaiaLens

CSRHub has added data from GaiaLens—a fintech platform that integrates ESG information. Our analysis found overlap and correlation between our data and signals.

Energy

U.S. Power Sector Emissions Ticked Back Up in 2021, According to Annual Ceres Benchmarking Report

Carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. power sector increased by 7% in 2021 over the previous year, as economies around the world reopened following shutdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Diversity & Inclusion

Striving To Close the Workplace Gender Gap: Supporting Our Women in Tech

Here at GoDaddy, we truly believe that diverse teams, built with all employees, build better products and make for a better place for us all to work. We strive for equality for all of our employees regardless of gender, race, and sexual orientation.

Diversity & Inclusion

Franklin Templeton Expands Its Partnership With Envestnet

Franklin Templeton has expanded its partnership with Envestnet and signed on to sponsor the Envestnet Institute on Campus (EIOC) program.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Libra Group Becomes Signatory of UN Women's Empowerment Principles Recognizing Need to Accelerate Global Equality for Women

Libra Group, a privately-owned international business group whose subsidiaries own and operate assets in nearly 60 countries, today announced that it has become a signatory of the United Nations (UN) Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GM's Vision for a More Sustainable and Equitable Future

GM is driving towards an all-electric, more sustainable future and moving faster than ever.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Wells Fargo Foundation Awards $7.5 Million to LISC Houston to Expand Homeownership for Families of Color

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and local elected officials joined LISC Houston and the Harris County Homeownership Collaborative, or HCHC, to announce the launch of a new initiative

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Platform.sh Hires Leah Goldfarb As Environmental Impact Officer To Oversee Greener Web Hosting Strategy

Platform.sh, a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running and scaling web applications, today announced the appointment of Leah Goldfarb as Environmental Impact Officer.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

My Special Aflac Duck® Helps Bring Joy to Young Patients Diagnosed With Cancer and Sickle Cell Disease at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in South Florida

September marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and to encompass activities designed to bring attention to these diseases, Aflac delivered My Special Aflac Ducks to young patients with pediatric cancer and sickle cell disease at Nicklaus Children's Hospital.

Innovation & Technology

Shorter corn stalks, drones and more: Inside Bayer Crop Science's $2B R&D pipeline

Bayer Crop Science has put those two topics at the center of its research and development initiatives, developing new products that it believes will help mitigate food insecurity and climate change.

Green Infrastructure

How Cisco's CDA Program Facilitates Sustainable Real Estate

Over the past year, the Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) team has worked to develop sustainability pilots and projects across the globe, as sustainability becomes more important to Cisco and our customers.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Transforming Traditional Safety Training With the Power of Virtual Reality

As part of our Stewardship Framework, our safety teams are continually building capability in our employees and resilience in our systems to prevent serious incidents.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Making Supply Chains More Inclusive and Secure

Access to digital tools and platforms has given a new generation of small businesses owners the ability reach customers far beyond Main Street. But, there is work to be done to reduce frictions in gathering global trading system.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Connecting Employees With NGOs for Impactful 3-Month Assignments

Each year, approximately 30 employees from around the world are selected to participate in our Fellowship program, a three-month, corporate pro bono program to support the efforts of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Education

DataSetGo To Promote Financial Literacy and Future-Ready Job Skills for 70,000+ High School Students

With a goal of shaping a diverse and future-ready workforce, Principal® Foundation and EVERFI have joined together to create a new data science and financial literacy program for high school students in the U.S.

Events, Media & Communications

Danai Gurira To Host Global Citizen Festival: Accra on September 24

Global Citizen today announced more artists set to participate in the 10th anniversary Global Citizen Festival, taking place on September 24th in NYC’s Central Park and Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana.

Sustainable Development Goals

Force for Good Reveals Funding Gap for Sustainable Development Has Widened to US$135 Trillion Ahead of 2022 UN General Assembly Debates

Force for Good reveals funding gap for sustainable development has widened to $135 trillion ahead of 2022 UN General Assembly debates.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Obituary: Herbert V. Kohler, Jr. (1939-2022) An Incomparable Spirit

Herb Kohler's bold ideas and hands-on leadership transformed the plumbing products manufacturer founded by his grandfather into a global and diverse family of businesses synonymous with unmatched quality, creativity, and bold innovation.

Innovation & Technology

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose, Tata Consultancy Services, and PYXERA Global: Actualizing Sustainable Economies

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) and PYXERA Global, announced a new slate of programs and events for Digital Empowers

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Multi-Stakeholder Public-Private Partnerships: Collaboration, Innovation and Growth

Our WEAVE project ran in Indonesia and Vietnam in 2020 and 2021. It successfully supported over 12,000 women entrepreneurs through our three online programmes – in the midst of the global pandemic.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CRB Taps Tom Rychlewski As Company's First Vice President for Food & Beverage Operations

CRB, a leading provider of engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions to the food and beverage industry, has promoted Tom Rychlewski as its first Vice President of the company’s Food & Beverage operations.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cadence Returnship Program: Madhu's Journey to Returnship

Learn more about Madhu’s Journey to Returnship from the complex decision to stop working to care for her children, to her transition back into high tech and working full-time.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Participates in “Pulling for a Purpose” Fundraiser for Special Olympics Colorado

Nearly 2,000 people from companies and local agencies including Arrow Electronics participated in the “Pulling for a Purpose” fundraiser for Special Olympics Colorado at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport about 15 miles northwest of Denver.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Hybrid Working: Five Ways To Create a Powerful Hybrid Office

As more businesses move toward hybrid working, there are at least five areas where you can improve your game: from where you work and when you work, to how you commute and travel, and even how you recharge afterwards.

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