Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Aramark Announces New 2025 Sustainability Plan

Dec 10, 2019 1:30 PM ET

Today, Aramark, the leading U.S.-based provider of food, facilities and uniform services, announced a new 2025 sustainability plan, Be Well. Do Well., focused on positively impacting people and the planet.

Diversity & Inclusion

Another Way to #BeYou: T-Mobile Brings Gender Pronouns to Retail Stores

Dec 10, 2019 12:45 PM ET

T-Mobile is launching new optional name badges for all retail employees that can include employees’ personal pronouns. The inclusion of pronouns will help give another outlet for employees to be their authentic selves in the workplace.

Education

Rube Goldberg Meets the Invention Age

Dec 10, 2019 12:25 PM ET

This is the Invention Age. To celebrate we partnered with a team of talented FIRST students to reimagine the Rube Goldberg machine.

Responsible Production & Consumption

FCA Joins ‘Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network’ to Help Build a More Ethical Electric Vehicle Supply Chain

Dec 10, 2019 12:05 PM ET

FCA today announced that it has joined the Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network (RSBN), an industry collaboration using blockchain technology to support sustainable, responsible sourcing and production practices from mine to market.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Nestlé Scales Up Action Against Child Labor and Expands Cocoa Sustainability Program

Dec 10, 2019 11:10 AM ET

Nestlé has today reported significant progress in its efforts to tackle the issue of child labor in the cocoa communities of West Africa. Its latest 'Tackling Child Labor' report shows that it is possible to have a positive impact at scale.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IOC President Stresses Importance of Unity and Solidarity as UN General Assembly Adopts Olympic Truce for Tokyo 2020 by Consensus

Dec 10, 2019 11:00 AM ET

The 74th session of the NU General Assembly adopted a resolution for the observance of the olympic truce for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 next summer.

Innovation & Technology

Making Tech for Good: Project OWL

Dec 10, 2019 10:35 AM ET

A small team of developers is working to deploy a new approach that can be used for post-disaster communication. Their Project OWL hardware/software solution can help create a temporary, low-cost network to keep people and emergency workers in touch.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Astellas Global Health Foundation Makes Inaugural Grant to the END Fund

Dec 10, 2019 10:00 AM ET

Today, the Astellas Global Health Foundation announced its first grant since the Foundation’s inception, awarding $750,000 to the END Fund, a prominent philanthropic organization combating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) worldwide.

Sustainable Development Goals

Bayer to Significantly Step-Up Its Sustainability Efforts

Dec 10, 2019 10:00 AM ET

Bayer has today announced a set of comprehensive sustainability measures and new commitments from 2020 onward. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and the Paris Agreement, the company has set ambitious targets...

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Human Rights Day 2019: BSR Reflections on the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

Dec 10, 2019 10:00 AM ET

As we look ahead to 2020, what are the pivotal human rights issues that businesses should be paying attention to? Here’s what BSR heard at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.

Media & Communications

Aflac CSR Campaign Nominated for Best Campaign of the Decade

Dec 10, 2019 9:00 AM ET

The Holmes Report has picked its 16 favorite PR campaigns of the decade based on SABRE winners and its Global Creative Index, and Aflac has made the cut.

Energy

A Clear Vision and Strategy

Dec 10, 2019 9:00 AM ET

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Reflecting on a Year at the Erb Institute: Impact Investing and DEI

Dec 10, 2019 8:55 AM ET

Of the multitude of high-value opportunities available through the Ross School of Business, the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Erb institute itself, here are a few that have been the most valuable in my graduate school career

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The 2020 Realized Worth CSR & Sustainability Conference Guide

Dec 10, 2019 8:30 AM ET

The go-to guide for CSR & sustainability professionals has arrived! The Realized Worth 2020 Conference Guide showcases conferences from around the world that are rich with industry expertise, fresh takes, challenging topics, and great speakers.

Research, Reports & Publications

Integrity and Action: Reshaping the Role of Business

Dec 10, 2019 8:00 AM ET

CECP’s Giving in Numbers is the unrivaled leader in benchmarking on corporate social investments.

Green Infrastructure

Bridgestone Introduces New Global Innovation Campus to Cultivate Next Generation of Advanced, Sustainable Solutions

Dec 10, 2019 8:00 AM ET

Bridgestone announced plans to create Bridgestone Innovation Park, a global center of research, development and wellness that will help the company accelerate its transformation into a global leader in advanced mobility and sustainable solutions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Advancing Regenerative Agriculture

Dec 10, 2019 8:00 AM ET

Building on our longstanding commitment to organic agriculture, we’re helping advance regenerative farming practices that build soil health, foster biodiversity, and promote resilient farming communities.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

ESG Is Good for Business: Companies Need to Let the World Know Through Their Actions

Dec 10, 2019 8:00 AM ET

ClearBridge Investments applauds the Business Roundtable for redefining the purpose of a corporation to promote “An Economy That Serves All Americans.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Waters Corporation Announces 2025 Sustainability Goals

Dec 10, 2019 8:00 AM ET

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today announced its 2025 sustainability goals and simultaneously announced a commitment to report its sustainability progress annually.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife Earns Recognition as Top Adoption-Friendly Workplace

Dec 9, 2019 4:35 PM ET

MetLife, Inc. announced that, for the twelfth year in a row, it has earned a spot on the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s annual list of America’s Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Eagles Autism Foundation and Aramark Partner With “Popcorn for the People” to Support Employment Opportunities for Adults With Autism

Dec 9, 2019 3:05 PM ET

To help combat the unemployment rate in the autism community, the Eagles Autism Foundation and Aramark, the Philadelphia Eagles food and beverage partner at Lincoln Financial Field, have teamed up with Popcorn for the People

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BSR Conference 2019: Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR

Dec 9, 2019 3:00 PM ET

In his opening remarks at the BSR Conference 2019, BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer discussed the state of the world that is leading to these new challenges for business and the role that sustainable business can play in this critical decade.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

An eBay for Charity Story: More Than Words in Boston

Dec 9, 2019 2:55 PM ET

As part of the $1 billion raised through eBay for Charity milestone, we partnered with three sellers to create video portraits to spotlight how a single purchase on eBay for Charity can impact charities, their recipients and their local communities.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

How Intel Is Advancing Respect for Human Rights

Dec 9, 2019 2:15 PM ET

Intel’s Global Human Rights Principles formalize our commitment to respecting human rights; embody common principles laid out in multiple frameworks; and apply to all employees and contingent workers, including those in our subsidiaries.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Record 631 Institutional Investors Managing More Than $37 Trillion in Assets Urge Governments to Step up Ambition to Tackle Global Climate Crisis

Dec 9, 2019 2:15 PM ET

Largest-ever group of investors calls on governments to phase out thermal coal power worldwide, put a price on carbon, end subsidies for fossil fuels, and strengthen nationally-determined contributions