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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

United Nations Global Compact Launches New Tool to Improve Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains

The United Nations Global Compact today launched a new toolkit to help procurement teams improve working conditions for millions of people working in global supply chains.

Environment

How HP Is Funneling Plastic From Haiti Into Laptops and Printer Supplies

The next ink cartridge or computer gear you buy might have an invisible but noteworthy history: Some part of it may once have been an empty soda bottle plucked from a distant shoreline.

Health & Healthcare

Novartis and DNDi to Collaborate on the Development of a New Oral Drug to Treat Visceral Leishmaniasis

Novartis and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) have signed a collaboration and licence agreement to jointly develop LXE408, as a potential new oral treatment for visceral leishmaniasis, one of the world’s leading parasitic killers.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Global Citizen: Powering the Movement to End Poverty

As a technology company, we have a powerful opportunity to create an inclusive future by sharing our skills and capabilities with others. Through a new partnership with international antipoverty organization Global Citizen, we’re equipping...

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Manchester City and Xylem Tackle Water and Education Issues in Bangalore With Fan Volunteers

Five Manchester City fans from across India were given an exciting volunteering opportunity to team up with the Club’s Official Water Technology Partner, Xylem, to increase access to safe water for primary schools in Bangalore.

Environment

American Forest Foundation Welcomes International Paper as a Family Forest Carbon Program Partner

The American Forest Foundation announced today that International Paper has joined AFF and its partner, The Nature Conservancy, in supporting the Family Forest Carbon Program to enhance carbon sequestration in family owned forest land across the U.S.

Diversity & Inclusion

2020 Catalyst Award Winner Medtronic Hires Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer

Medtronic is hiring its first Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer, underscoring its continued focus and significant investment in inclusion and diversity as a business priority. Sally Saba, M.D., will assume the position effective March 2, 2020

Environment

Unlocking the Power of Policy at Ceres 2020 in New York!

At Ceres 2020 in New York, we’ll explore how policy and legislation can serve as real solutions to our most pressing sustainability challenges and how both investors and companies can help shape innovative climate and energy policies

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Connecting Employee Communities at Qualcomm

Qualcomm Employee Networks (ENs) are employee-driven, enterprise-supported networks, promoting the professional growth of our employees. They support the communities in which we do business, offer collaboration and encouragement among employees.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrate Black History Month: For the Love of Baseball and Small-Town Life

On weekdays, you'll find Duke Energy security officer Hugh Gorie helping keep watch over Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca, S.C. On weekends from April to September, you'll find him on baseball diamonds...

Innovation & Technology

Goodyear Connected Tires Can Reduce Lost Stopping Distance, a Key for EVs, AVs

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company recently eclipsed 3 million miles of data from road tests and field trials with customers derived from its connected tires.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Two New Helicopters Help Support Wildfire Mitigation Efforts

As the helicopter, brightly painted yellow and green, makes its way toward the helipad at Chino Airport, the rotors are noticeably quieter, the size of the aircraft larger than most of the fleet.

Innovation & Technology

The New Energy World:­ Perspectives from Global Leaders

"Our Green Chemistry initiative is as much about driving efficiency in our factories (staring with technology development to design future processes) as it is about sustainability." - Frederick Hellman, Compliance Associate Director, Astra Zeneca

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Black History Month: Jessica O. Matthews

It takes an innovative mind to correlate a soccer ball with electricity. It takes an entrepreneur — a modern-day pioneer like Jessica O. Matthews — to turn such an item into a source of energy for the developing world.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

LIXIL Earns Place in CDP’s Water Security A List for Second Consecutive Year

LIXIL has been named in the CDP ’s prestigious Water A List for two consecutive years. Incorporating its Corporate Responsibility commitment in its products, services, and business, CDP’s recognition reflects LIXIL's leadership in water stewardship.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Erb Institute Faculty Director Joe Árvai Recognized for Contribution to Risk Analysis

As businesses address climate change, the ways they assess, analyze and mitigate risk are critical. Árvai is an expert in the risk and decision sciences, and he is a frequent advisor to governments, government agencies, NGOs and the private sector.

Health & Healthcare

Study: Your Home’s Water Quality Could Vary by the Room – and the Season

Is the water in your home actually safe, given that water utility companies in the U.S. aren’t required by law to monitor the water that specifically enters a building at its service line?

Environment

Using Shared Value for Climate Action

A look into FSG’s project with Swedish construction company OBOS.

Energy

Millennials and the Financial Impact of the Energy Transition

Millennials were born into a rapidly changing financial landscape which should inform us of the diligence required for the next economic revolution.

Innovation & Technology

The Long and Short of 77 and 24 GHz Automotive Radar

Automotive radar developers continue to hold onto the tenet, that good technology truly can save lives as Keysight and Calterah work to create better radar detection for blind spot detection, lane change, parking assistance, and collision avoidance.

Environment

Cascade Comes Clean About Dishwashing Habit

P&G detergent brand, Cascade is launching “Do It Every Night,” a campaign to encourage water conservation in an unexpected way: by considering running the dishwasher every night, instead of washing dishes by hand.

Events, Media & Communications

What Nature Can Teach Business About Achieving Shared and Sustainable Value

Companies are recognizing that more inclusive business models and collaborations that include diverse actors can drive both economic growth and accelerate impact on addressing our UN Sustainable Development Goals. What’s behind this realization?

Events, Media & Communications

Goodyear Unveils New Brand Campaign That Champions the Power of Forward Movement

Goodyear’s newest campaign highlights the relationship between physical movement and unlocking human potential.

Sustainable Development Goals

Practical Help for Businesses to up the Pace of SDGs Progress

This year marks just ten years to go to the deadline for completing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Employees Sponsor Donation Drive for REMAR Mexico Shelter

Employees in Arrow Electronics’ Guadalajara, Mexico operations sponsored a donation drive for the REMAR Occidente Shelter that provides essential services for women and children.

Latest Campaigns

  1. CACI Celebrates Veterans and Military Families Month
    This Veterans and Military Families Month, we celebrate the strength, dedication, and sacrifices of former service members and their loved ones. CACI...
  2. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.
  3. Southwire Giving Back
    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...
  4. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  5. 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...
  6. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  7. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  8. 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...
  9. GoDaddy | Customers
    GoDaddy is the world’s largest services platform for entrepreneurs around the globe. We’re on a mission to empower our worldwide community of 20+...
  10. 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...
  11. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  12. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  13. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  14. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...
  15. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...