Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest news from 3BL’s clients.







Recent Alerts

sustainability: 2025 Report - Rockwell Automation
Building a More Resilient, Agile, and Sustainable Future

Rockwell Automation

Research, Reports & Publications

people in a boat
What We Learned (Or Didn’t) From Hurricane Katrina

TriplePundit

Social Impact & Volunteering

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Yum! Brands Recognized for Climate Action and Transparency

Yum! is best known for its RED (relevant, easy and distinctive) brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill – but recent accolades in the sustainability space might make consumers see it as green.

Diversity & Inclusion

Discovery Education Offers Educators New Content for Women's History Month

Discovery Education now offers a new collection of engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to support observances of Women’s History Month. Since 1987 in the United States, Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture, and society.

Energy

Marathon Petroleum Trucks and Trains Transition to Using Renewable Diesel in La Basin

Marathon Petroleum’s Vinvale and East Hynes fleets in California’s Los Angeles Basin have made a significant step toward reducing their carbon footprint and contributing to a cleaner future by transitioning both fleets entirely to renewable diesel.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

AccountAbility Receives Prestigious FT Award for Seventh Consecutive Year

NEW YORK and LONDON, February 29, 2024 /3BL/ - AccountAbility, a global ESG Consulting and Standards firm with a thirty-year history, has been recognized for the seventh straight year as a Leading Management Consultant by the Financial Times.

Responsible Production & Consumption

How Is Plywood Made? A Veneer Mill Tour

Plywood is crucial in construction, but have you ever wondered how plywood is made? In this article, we explore how trees are transformed during the plywood-making process at a veneer mill in Aberdeen, Washington.

Diversity & Inclusion

Breaking Ground in LA’s Little Tokyo

A new mixed-use, affordable housing development is underway in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood. Go For Broke Plaza and First Street North Residences will provide 248 units of affordable housing.

Innovation & Technology

Enabling the Deep-Tech and Innovation Ecosystems in Vietnam, Taiwan and Africa

In Vietnam, Taiwan and Africa, the Qualcomm ecosystem programs catalyzed innovation and intellectual property (IP) generation across the globe in 2023.

Education

Georgia Tech’s Scheller College Faculty Elevate Sustainability in the Classroom

The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business announces the first cohort of the Faculty Educational Innovation Community, which is committed to enhancing sustainability content and pedagogy across Scheller College of Business curricula.

Research, Reports & Publications

Essity’s Annual Report for 2023

Hygiene and health company Essity recently published its Annual Report for 2023 on essity.com. Read the complete CEO message and about Essity’s strategic priorities, earnings and leading sustainability work in the Annual Report for 2023, which is attached to this press release.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Clorox Company’s Commitment to Strong Corporate Governance

This strong governance begins at the top. Our board of directors applies their strong, diverse and relevant skills to provide meaningful oversight of the company and its execution of the IGNITE strategy, demonstrating active engagement with the issues most important to investors.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A Yearlong Guide to Giving Back in Your Community

Subaru owners love to support their communities all year round. Here are ways to give back in every month of the year.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Wesco Named to Fortune’s World's Most Admired Companies 2024

Wesco has been named to this prestigious list of international companies since 2022 and improved in its industry category of Wholesalers: Diversified ranking this year – up from #4 in 2023 to #2 in 2024.

Research, Reports & Publications

Georgia-Pacific’s New Stewardship Report, Progress With Purpose, Is Now Available.

At Georgia-Pacific LLC, stewardship encompasses the responsible management of our actions and the resources entrusted to our care in a manner that respects the rights of others.

Diversity & Inclusion

Gilead Sciences: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

This year’s theme for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is “Engage, Educate, Empower: Uniting to End HIV/AIDS in Black Communities.”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

SAIC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley Emphasizes the Value of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Toni Townes-Whitley expresses excitement about cultivating a vibrant ERG community during this pivotal moment in SAIC's strategic journey. Hear about the essential role ERGs play as listening mechanisms and channels for effective communication.

Diversity & Inclusion

Duke Energy Reflects on Black History Month

As the daughter of a public school teacher, Black History Month has been a pillar in my personal journey of discovery as a lifelong learner. My focus this year is the dream of those who came before me.

Energy

Entergy Mississippi Offers Bill Management and Assistance Options for Winter Season

This winter, Entergy Mississippi’s service area endured multiple days of extremely cold temperatures, causing many customers to turn up the heat to take the chill out of the air.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Gilead Announces Funding Initiative To Support HIV Prevention, Anti-Stigma and Health Equity Efforts for Black Cisgender and Transgender Women and Girls in the U.S.

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) announced it is providing a total of $12.6 million in grant funding to 19 organizations working to improve the HIV landscape for Black women and girls in the United States.

Health & Healthcare

Direct Relief’s Fund for Health Equity Awards $7 Million to 38 Organizations Across the U.S.

Direct Relief today announced the latest round of grants awarded from its Fund for Health Equity.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Top Insights From the 2024 Corporate Service Council Winter Summit

On February 21 and 22, 2024, Points of Light convened its Corporate Service Council in New York City for the annual Winter Summit, hosted by Points of Light and KPMG U.S. Foundation. Get key insights from this innovative CSR event.

Diversity & Inclusion

Reliving Aflac’s Early Days With Company’s First African American Officer

As Black History Month comes to a close, Aflac shares a key moment in company history by highlighting James Jackson, a distinguished veteran who spent his second career with Aflac, becoming the company’s first-ever African American officer.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Farmers for Soil Health

Farmers for Soil Health was established with the United Soybean Board (USB) and other supporters to advance the use of cover crops to improve soil health, advance sustainability throughout the food value chain and improve farmer profitability.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Tri-State Diversity Council Announces Its 2024 New York Women in Leadership Symposium Woman of the Year Awardee

The Tri-State Diversity Council (TSDC) announces Patricia Gomez, Corporate Vice President at New York Life as its 2024 New York Women in Leadership Symposium Woman of the Year awardee.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Tri-State Diversity Council Announces Its 2024 New Jersey Women in Leadership Symposium Woman of the Year Awardee

The Tri-State Diversity Council (TSDC) announces Dr. Ida G. Jackson Woods, AVP and Chief Diversity Officer of ETS, as its 2024 New Jersey Women in Leadership Symposium Woman of the Year awardee.

Environment

Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council Publishes Guiding Principles on Advanced Recycling

HPRC announced today the release of its Guiding Principles on Advanced Recycling, marking a significant stride in its ongoing efforts to evaluate applicability and effectiveness of advanced recycling technologies in creating a circular plastics economy for the healthcare industry

Latest Campaigns

  1. Emergency Response
    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  2. 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...
  3. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  4. 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...
  5. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  6. Environmental Sustainability
    Cisco is working not only for a more inclusive future, but a more environmentally sustainable one as well. Environmental issues like climate change...
  7. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  8. 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...
  9. SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights
    Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...
  10. Scotts Miracle-Gro | Community Enhancement
    Our work at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation is to connect more people, in more places, to the life-enhancing benefits of gardens and greenspaces...
  11. Energy Transition
    Energy Transition Content
  12. Mary Kay Ash Foundation: Creating a Safer, Healthier World for Women
    In the U.S. and around the world, Mary Kay remains steadfast in its commitment to ending the cycle of domestic violence and finding cures for cancers...
  13. Protecting our planet
    We believe that people can only live their healthiest lives on a healthy planet. That’s why we reduce our environmental footprint by finding...
  14. Policy and Regulation
    Cascale shares insights regarding policy and regulation impacting the consumer goods industry, and highlights how it's supporting members prepare for...
  15. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...