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Awards & Rankings

3BL Media Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2020

3BL Media announced today its annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking, recognizing leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) transparency and performance amongst the 1,000 largest U.S. public companies.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Why You and Your Business Need to Tackle the Hard Work of Change

Many headlines have called COVID-19 an unprecedented event of human history. That’s not true. As humans have spread across the planet, so have infectious diseases. Even in this modern era, outbreaks are nearly constant

Health & Healthcare

Shakira Just Asked Justin Trudeau to Step Up Funding for COVID-19 Tests, Vaccines, and Treatments

Colombian superstar Shakira tweeted at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday calling for increased support for tests, vaccines, and treatments against COVID-19, specifically to ensure an equitable response worldwide.

Energy & Infrastructure

Schneider Electric Receives the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label Award for Profitable Environmental Protection

Schneider Electric today announced that it has been awarded the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label for its EcoStruxure™ Microgrid Advisor and NEO Network™ solutions from the Solar Impulse Foundation.

Volunteering & Community

Leveraging Sustainable Fashion to Achieve Economic Self-Sufficiency

In the face of COVID-19, Custom Collaborative, a workforce development nonprofit, partnered with virtual volunteers from S&P Global for a data management project to help the nonprofit better support women from low-income and immigrant communities.

Research & Reports

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Releases Living Progress Report

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today released its annual Living Progress Report for fiscal year 2019, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to being a force for good by equipping customers with sustainable technology solutions, upholding HPE’s own high Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards across its value chain, and prioritizing company culture to fuel business outcomes.

AI & Technology

Stanley Black & Decker and Discovery Education Announce 2020 Making for Good Challenge Winners

The annual challenge builds upon a Stanley Black & Decker and Discovery Education educational program – Innovation Generation – igniting, engaging, and empowering students to become makers through no-cost dynamic digital resources.

Volunteering & Community

Boarded-Up Storefronts Get Transformed Into Matisse-Like Exhibits

Proceeds from the Mural Project here in New York City will benefit City Meals on Wheels and Feeding America, and the murals themselves will remain up at the discretion of each retailer.

Education & Workforce Development

Building Distance Learning Essentials with Corrugated

With millions of students across the country forced to shift to study at home, the race is on to get essential resources to those without access.

AI & Technology

Cybersecurity Across the Product Lifecyle is Essential to Minimizing Security Breaches

Cybersecurity is on everyone’s mind. Almost daily, you hear about product vulnerabilities that lead to breaches in some company’s security.

Socially Responsible Investing

Land Betterment Corp Secures $450,000 in Economic Incentives

Land Betterment Corporation is proud and dedicated to work with all stakeholders to grow economic diversity and opportunity in areas that have been adversely affected from the decline in thermal coal as our society transitions away from coal-based fuels.

Energy & Infrastructure

New Solar-Powered EV Charging Station on I-85 in Georgia Delivers 300% More Power

The Ray, Donovan Energy, and ABB have partnered to upgrade the solar-powered electric vehicle charging station located at the visitor information center (VIC) located off Interstate 85 in West Point, Georgia. This station replaces the original solar-powered EV charging station that The Ray installed with Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia in 2015--the first in the Southeast.

Philanthropy

PayPal Announces $530 Million Commitment to Support Black Businesses, Strengthen Minority Communities and Fight Economic Inequality

PayPal Holdings has announced a $530 million commitment to support Black and minority-owned businesses and communities in the U.S., especially those hardest hit by the pandemic, to help address economic inequality.

Research & Reports

Today and Tomorrow: COVID-19 and the Increased Relevance of Corporate Sustainability

At GlobeScan and BSR, we spend our time working with some of the largest businesses in the world. We wanted to understand both the immediate effect on the sustainability efforts of the companies we work with and also to begin to understand what long-term implications they are anticipating as a result of the pandemic.

Health & Healthcare

FedEx Logistics Helps in the Fight Against COVID-19 by Distributing Personal Protective Equipment to Hospitals throughout Latin America

FedEx Logistics, Inc., a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), is providing essential supply chain services to support the fight against COVID-19.

Research & Reports

Strong Backing for EU Ambition to Drive Transparency

GRI, provider of the world’s leading standards for sustainability reporting, has expressed full support for the European Commission’s plans to revise the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), for which a public consultation closed on 11 June.

Corporate Responsibility

How Do You #BacktheFrontline?

In hospitals and labs, homes and communities, we all play a role in COVID-19 response efforts. Hear from JNJ Chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky on the impact made possible by #BackTheFrontline. We have a long way to go, but we will get there together.

Volunteering & Community

CITGO and Empire Petroleum Support Detroit Metro Area Hospitals During COVID-19

As communities continue to work together during the ongoing public health crisis, we at CITGO are honored to do our part to give back and support our neighbors.

Socially Responsible Investing

Investors and Labor Leaders Find Hope for Workers in Recovery Efforts to Build Back a More Sustainable Economy

At a recent Ceres 2020 digital session, Building Back Better: Opportunities for Jobs and Economic Recovery in Clean Technology and Sustainable Infrastructure, Senior Director of the Ceres Investor Network, Rev. Kirsten Snow Spalding was joined by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Torben Möger Pedersen, CEO of PensionDanmark to discuss the opportunities to advance worker rights, safety and jobs while transitioning to a low-carbon economy, all amid the current coronavirus pandemic gripping the planet.

Events

Fifth Third to Observe Juneteenth Day

Juneteenth (also known as Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day or Freedom Day) is the observance of the ending of slavery in the United States.

Volunteering & Community

Local Nurse Donates Stem Cells Twice to Help Elderly Man

Three years after swabbing her cheek, Gloud received a call from DKMS that was she was a perfect match for a 74-year-old man who was suffering from blood cancer and needed a transplant to survive.

Research & Reports

ESG Report: Edison International Reaches Nearly 50% of Its 2045 Carbon-Free Energy Goal, Increases Workforce Diversity and Helps Fortune 50 Companies Reduce Emissions

Edison International published its 2019 Sustainability Report on the company’s achievements toward a sweeping set of measurable goals related to clean energy, transportation electrification, diversity and inclusion, and safety, while emphasizing its commitment to providing customers safe, reliable, affordable and clean electricity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Corporate Responsibility

Companies Need to Set More Ambitious Targets to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, United Nations Global Compact Report Shows

Today, on the occasion of its 20th-anniversary Leaders Summit, the United Nations Global Compact, in partnership with DNV GL, released a new report looking back on 20 years of corporate sustainability progress among its business participants.

AI & Technology

COVID-19 Reinforces the Role of Mobile Connectivity in Bridging the Digital Divide

To address global inequality, we must ensure a world where everyone has access to life-changing technology. How do we get there? By expanding access to mobile, strengthening private-public partnerships, and accelerating the proliferation of 5G.

Latest Campaigns

Cascale Governance

Cascale shares updates from its Board of Directors who serve as the principal governing body and are responsible for setting the strategic direction...

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

Wesco Cares

Life-changing events can happen to any of us, often when we least expect them. Employees in need can turn to the Wesco Cares. Its mission is to be an...

People

As a family-owned business, Bacardi values the importance of creating a warm and welcoming workplace. We do so by fostering an environment where...

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...

2025 Performance Report

Entergy’s 2025 performance report, “Energy for a better future” presents an overview of our company’s 2025 achievements, future plans and strategies...

Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility

License to Operate

Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...

LATAM Growth

DP World is significantly expanding its operations in Latin America, focusing on enhancing port infrastructure and increasing cargo handling...

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...