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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

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BCtA Companies at the Forefront of Response to COVID-19

COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), with over 250,000 infected across the globe. UNDP will support countries to set up a multisectoral whole-of-society approach to face the challenges beyond the health sector

Environment

Chinese Air Quality + Ekoru Search Engine

Looking for some good news as we enter yet another week of sheltering-in-place? Perhaps you feel like doing a Google search to discover an upside to the slow down?

Environment

Announcing Ceres 2020 Digital Program for April and May!

Earlier in March, we announced that the Ceres 2020 in New York in-person event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, we’ve been working hard to reimagine how we can deliver the content we planned that aims to address the challenges investors, companies and policymakers alike face when it comes to sustainability.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

SCE Helps Fairplex Sheraton Open to Quarantined COVID-19 Patients

On March 15, as COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County began to mount, Southern California Edison learned that the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center at the LA County Fairgrounds in Pomona was under consideration as a possible quarantine site.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Here for Our Employees, Our Customers, Our Communities – and the Broader Economy – in These Unprecedented Times

Unprecedented is a word we hear every day as the pandemic continues to evolve. At this time of stress and uncertainty, many are looking to the government for help, but I firmly believe that businesses also have to rise to the occasion.

Health & Healthcare

An Open Letter from our Chairman and CEO

When the news of the coronavirus first emerged, Gilead immediately began to investigate the potential of remdesivir, a medicine we had been studying for many years as part of our extensive research in antivirals.

Health & Healthcare

Bayer Employees Volunteer to Conduct SARS-CoV-2 Tests in Newly Established Berlin Laboratory

Our newly established testing laboratory in Berlin which supports the fight against the Corona virus is already running: In the lab, our employees – more than 140 have volunteered – are able to conduct up to 1,000 additional SARS-CoV-2 tests per day.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

General Mills Supports Employees and Communities in Response to COVID-19

General Mills announced a series of actions to support employees and communities in response to COVID-19, including
$5 million in charitable grants to support food access in our key global markets and support for our manufacturing communities.

Health & Healthcare

International Medical Corps Prepares for COVID-19 Surge

As part of its global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, International Medical Corps is deploying two medical shelters and equipment to Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH), which serves an area of high medical need in South Los Angeles

Environment

A Commitment That’s About More Than Chocolate -- It’s About Saving Our Forests

The world loves chocolate. But the world needs trees – now more than ever. The challenge is that trees are disappearing at alarming rates and sometimes that is due to the production of cocoa to make chocolate.

Health & Healthcare

Johnson & Johnson Announces a Lead Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19; Landmark New Partnership with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; and Commitment to Supply One Billion Vaccines Worldwide for Emergency Pandemic Use

Johnson & Johnson today announced the selection of a lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate from constructs it has been working on since January 2020

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

International Paper's Kentucky Mill Donates to the Mason County Food Bank to Help Support Its Increased Need Due to COVID-19

The International Paper mill in Maysville, Kentucky has donated 2,500 corrugated boxes to the Mason County Food Bank to help the nonprofit address increased need due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fair Trade USA Awarded $1.4 Million Grant From the Walmart Foundation to Deepen Impact for Farmers

Fair Trade USA®, the leading certifier of fair trade products in North America, has received a grant from the Walmart Foundation to strengthen support for producer-led community development projects along fair trade supply chains.

Innovation & Technology

CLP’s Sustainable Path to Build a Utility of the Future

The CLP Group’s latest Sustainability Report highlights the Company’s strategies to navigate transformative global megatrends and chart a sustainable path to build a Utility of the Future.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MetLife Foundation Donates $100,000 to North Carolina Food Bank to Help Those Impacted by Coronavirus

MetLife Foundation announced today that it is donating $100,000 to Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina to help deal with increased demand for their services as a result of coronavirus.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IWBI Membership Program Welcomes New Organizations

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is pleased to announce the continued growth of its membership program, and with it, a growing impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe.

Innovation & Technology

How TalkingPoints Is Helping Teachers and Parents Stay Connected to Enhance Student Success and Well-Being

With more students learning from home, it is even more crucial for teachers and parents to stay connected to each other. TalkingPoints has received cash grant support from the Cisco Foundation to develop its mobile platform that automatically...

Education

T. Rowe Price Offers Engaging Activities for Parents and Kids at Home With Its Money Confident Kids Program

T. Rowe Price offers fun and informative in-home learning with its Money Confident Kids® program.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Common Impact Announces Four New Board Members as Organization Expands Its National Presence and Models

Common Impact, a national nonprofit leader for corporate skills-based volunteerism, has announced the appointment of four new executives to its Board of Directors: Janelle Woods-McNish, Anne Ames, Rachel Hutchisson and Lauren Banks.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Join Us to #InspireACTION

In the period of a few short weeks, the way we live and work has been upended. The length of time this “new normal” will last is not yet clear.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Awards $20 Million in Initial Grants to Fund Clinical Trials

The partners in the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator have announced grants of $20 million to three institutions—the University of Washington, University of Oxford, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology—to fund clinical trials

Diversity & Inclusion

Keysight Technologies Celebrates Patti Key, Vice President of Network Applications and Security Sales for Women's History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month, Keysight Technologies celebrates its women leaders who do so much for our technology, our business, and our culture.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Quakes and Tremors: What Foundations Can Do to Safeguard Childhood Wellbeing in the Wake of a Pandemic

Research shows that childhood wellbeing can be severely impacted by traumatic events like those associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Read FSG's latest blog by managing director Ursula Wright for ideas on how foundations can help.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Offers 7 Financial Tips during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fifth Third Bank is offering seven financial tips during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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...