Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Research, Reports & Publications

New Research Reveals That As Interest in Sustainability Rises, So Does Skepticism of Business

According to recent research conducted by 3BL Media and TriplePundit in partnership with Glow, interest in sustainability and social impact issues is on the rise in the United States.

Sustainable Development Goals

People Behind Purpose at Cisco: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Our Facilities Through the EnergyOps Program

Cisco’s Global Energy Management and Sustainability (GEMS) team is responsible for energy and sustainability initiatives across our global real estate portfolio with objectives to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Sustainable Development Goals

O-I Glass Advances Sustainability and Decarbonization of Plant in Vayres, France

O-I Glass, Inc. completed a €50 million investment to advance the sustainability of its plant in Vayres, France by installing the latest gas-oxygen combustion technology and heat recovery systems.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Gildan Provides Free Vision Care to Communities in the Dominican Republic in Partnership With Batey Relief Alliance

Gildan is pleased to share that the Company recently hosted a free, three-day ophthalmological event in the Guerra municipality of the Dominican Republic, providing free preventative eye care checkups for over 200 people from the Guerra community.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bath & Body Works Celebrating Five Perfumers for Women's History Month

This Women’s History Month, we’re inviting our associates across #GinghamNation to celebrate the profound contributions women have made inside our company and around the world.

Diversity & Inclusion

Before and After: Locker Room Renovation Improves Morale for Police Officers

The Melvindale Police Department near Detroit, Michigan, knew it needed to upgrade its women’s locker room that was housed in a small, single-stall bathroom, but it didn’t have the funds for a renovation project.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Fifth Third Bank Receives Model Risk Manager Award From Celent for Climate Change Risk Assessment

Fifth Third Bank, National Association has been recognized by Celent as a winner of a Model Risk Manager award for Responding to Emerging Risks, specifically climate change risk assessment. Celent is a global research and advisory firm for the financial services industry.

Education

Cadence on Campus - UC Berkeley

The Cadence Academic Network is collaborating with universities to build deeper connections between our business focus areas and academia.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Where Community Is Always First!

Alan Graham, founder and CEO of nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes, which established Community First! Village, is working to address chronic homelessness while also dispelling its many myths.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Principal® Announces Five-Year Extension Agreement for Principal Charity Classic

Principal Financial Group® announced a five-year extension agreement with the Principal Charity Classic to continue its long-standing support for the annual PGA TOUR Champions tournament held at the Wakonda Club in Des Moines, Iowa.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Episode 2 • the Digital Standards Initiative • the Future of the CSO • APAC

‘The Future of the CSO - APAC’ series will bring you an in-depth understanding of how the role has changed, how it will continue to evolve, the skillsets required and the challenges that will be faced.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Bloomberg Enhances SFDR Solution To Simplify Portfolio Alignment and Provide Comprehensive Coverage of Reporting Requirements

Bloomberg today announced its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation solution has a new dashboard enabling fund managers to seamlessly track and pick investments that align with the key ESG indicators mandated for SFDR reporting, the principal adverse impact indicators.

Health & Healthcare

Kohler and Manchester United Partner on Safe Water for All

Manchester United and Kohler are proud to partner to raise awareness for Safe Water for All.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife Once Again Earns 2023 Energy Star® Partner of the Year ‘Sustained Excellence’ Award

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has received the 2023 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Listen: The Choices That Ripple Beyond Us

Faced with a growing list of challenges, a young Juan Perez decided to transform his life and find a job that could provide him and his young family a better future. He found that job at Koch. It's a decision that changed him and his family in ways he never imagined.

Environment

Canadian Consumers on Connectivity and Climate Change

What do high costs of living, extreme weather events and food and water shortages all have in common? These and other consequences of climate change will be more difficult to ignore as our world becomes hotter.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Measuring the Work That Impacts the Soul of a Company

Kearney’s unrelenting commitment to accuracy and data integrity proved to be integral to the success he found in his former role managing balance sheet analytics and modeling for PNC’s business-critical enterprise and credit risk reporting team.

Diversity & Inclusion

Challenging the Status Quo: Meet Martina Spinatsch

In celebration of Women’s History Month and the importance of female role models, Henkel North America’s Senior Vice President of R&D for Consumer Brands discusses her experience as a woman in STEM and what inspires her most about the next generation of leaders.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

3 Ways Mobile Fueling Helps Your Fleet Do More in a Day

By outsourcing fueling errands, streamlining finance management, and leveraging data insights, fleet managers can increase productivity at all fleet levels to access budget savings, route optimization, and better driver performance.

Sustainable Development Goals

Southern Company’s Approach to Net Zero and the Environment

Southern Company is proud to support the communities we serve, and we are committed to protecting the environment we all share.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Fifth Third Bank Awarded on the Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies 2023 List

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Environment

Three Steps to Profitable and Sustainable Energy Management

As with all aspects of modern business, the journey to sustainable profitability starts with data that leads to intelligent strategies.

Energy

U.S. House Republican Energy Package Fails To Move the U.S. Toward an Affordable, Secure, Clean Energy Future

Ceres stands in opposition to H.R. 1, the wide-ranging and unbalanced energy bill that the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on this week, calling it a step backward for U.S. energy security and away from building an advanced, clean economy that reduces costs.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cummins Employees Devote March to Projects Tied to World Water Day

Cummins Inc. employees celebrated World Water Day March 22 by conducting more than 20 projects over the month of March highlighting the importance of fresh water and the critical issues facing the natural resource.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A CEO's Perspective: 7 Insights to Discover and Activate Authentic Purpose

Your taste buds may be familiar with the work of Kerry Group — even if the name doesn’t ring a bell.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Investing in our Communities
    We invest in sustainable community outcomes that improve lives.
  2. 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...
  3. FedEx Cares | Overall
    FedEx Cares is our global community engagement program and one way that we live out our purpose of connecting people and possibilities. Our goal is to...
  4. AEG's Commitment to Sustainable Operations
    AEG's sustainability initiatives are designed to reduce our consumption of the planet’s limited resources. Through our comprehensive sustainability...
  5. 2025 Beat the Heat
    This summer, Entergy helped our customers across our service area beat the heat this summer through a number of initiatives aimed to help them save...
  6. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  7. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.
  8. 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...
  9. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  10. Cascale Events
    Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
  11. Community Impact
    The communities where Chemours operates are also where we live, work, and play, and our mutual success is one and the same. We have a vested interest...
  12. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  13. 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...
  14. Principal Financial Group: Employee Engagement
    Talented employees are the heart and soul of our company. We believe development inspires individuals to engage, empower, and embrace a growth mindset...
  15. Approach: Our Recipe For Good Growth
    At Yum!, being a good corporate steward is a fundamental commitment and an important part of our success. Our Global Citizenship & Sustainability...