Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Health & Healthcare | Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council

HPRC Publishes Inaugural Impact Report: Paving the Way for Sustainable Healthcare Plastics

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is thrilled to announce the publication of its inaugural Impact Report for 2024.
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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Europe Leads the Way on Scope 3 Emissions: What Investors and Companies Need To Know

CSRHub

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Cocoa Market Turmoil: How Hershey Is Innovating Through Unprecedented Challenges

The Hershey Company

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sustainable Strategies for Grocery Growth

Tetra Pak

Energy

Stop Buying Energy Infrastructure. Start Buying Results.

Veolia North America

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Why Sustainability Is the Smartest Investment in an Uncertain Trade Landscape

DP World

Energy

Energy for a Better Future: Entergy’s Growth and Resiliency Strategy

Entergy Corporation

Energy

AllianceBernstein: Power Play: How To Invest Smarter in the Race for Electrification

AllianceBernstein

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Sysco 2024 Sustainability Report: At the Heart of One Planet One Table

Sysco Corporation

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Hormel Foods to Host Live Virtual Concert Starring NBC’s The Voice Runner-Up Chris Kroeze, Minnesota Native and Nashville Recording Artist Natalie Murphy & Multitalented Singer-Songwriter and TV Personality Nick Hoffman

In addition to the virtual live concert, Hormel Foods is honoring its production professionals through its commitment of more than $4 million to be used for a bonus for our plant team members.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

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

MetLife Foundation announced today that it is donating $100,000 to Feeding Tampa Bay to help deal with increased demand for their services as a result of coronavirus.

Environment

Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: What We Can Learn From Innovative Beverage Companies

Grow smarter, not harder. That’s regenerative agriculture in a nutshell. It’s a back-to-nature approach to growing that not only aims to do no environmental harm but also progressively improve ecosystems.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Building a Sustainable Mung Bean Farming System in Bangladesh

Japanese company euglena Co. has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to contract more than 10,000 farmers in Bangladesh through Grameen euglena, a joint venture with the Grameen Krishi Foundation in Bangladesh

Health & Healthcare

How ViacomCBS Is Connecting to Fans During the Coronavirus Crisis

Behind the camera, news crews are working amid unprecedented conditions to deliver constant updates, and late night shows known for slick in-studio productions are now finding creative ways to give fans daily boosts.

Education

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at Cass Middle School

Thanks to the company’s recycling and sustainability efforts, Mohawk’s Material Recovery Team helped Cass Middle School in Georgia become one step closer to county STEM certification.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

CIT Financing Speeds Protective N95 Masks to Healthcare Workers

CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) has provided critical financing for its client Aria Designs to help it procure millions of advanced N95 surgical masks that will protect medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

04/02 Update: The Biggest Names in Entertainment Are Helping the Smallest Names in Business

Verizon Business honors small businesses helping frontline healthcare workers in New York City.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Every Website Can Now Be a COVID-19 Volunteering Outpost

VolunteerMatch, the world’s largest volunteer engagement network, has launched VolunteerMatch Connect, a free product that enables everyone to turn their website into a volunteer action hub with a simple copy and paste code snippet.

Black & Veatch

Innovation & Technology

Atonix Digital, RoviSys Team up to Extend Asset Performance Management Software’s Reach

Atonix Digital has partnered with Ohio-based RoviSys to deliver Atonix Digital’s line of asset performance management (APM) solutions powered by the ASSET360® analytics platform.

Black & Veatch

Environment

With Black & Veatch, Memphis Sees Sewer Program As Unfolding Opportunity

Memphis’ sewerage assets aren’t much different in scale with other metropolitan areas, and often they’re similarly old, with some pipes dating back a century.

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Events, Media & Communications

National Grid Appoints President of US Business and Managing Director of National Grid Ventures

Badar Khan has been appointed President of the US Business, following the departure of Dean Seavers at the end of 2019. Badar has been acting as interim President since November 2019.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CSR-related Crisis Response -- Plan Ahead, But Expect Unique Challenges

Michele Robinson-Pontbriand, Director of CSR at Keysight, knows that the COVID-19 crisis has changed the world drastically, but the tenants of CSR-related efforts are similar. Strong policies must be trusted when unique challenges are anticipated.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

COVID-19 Brings Policy Responses, Risks to Emerging Markets, and Hoarding

This month’s consequences from the COVID-19 virus have been substantial. Apart from the impact on public health, equity indices have corrected with considerable speed amid a massive shift away from risk assets.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Electrolux Highlights Lower Emissions and Introduces New Framework in 2019 Sustainability Report

Electrolux, a sustainability leader in the appliance industry, reports a 75% reduction in CO2 emissions from its operations since 2005. To reflect the Group’s new commitment to become climate neutral across the supply chain by 2050, and its increasingly holistic approach to sustainability, the overall sustainability framework has also been updated.

Social Impact & Volunteering

It's April - and That Means It's Keep America Beautiful Month

As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community – virtually. Here are 10 ways to #DoBeautifulThings while keeping yourself and your neighbors healthy and safe during Keep America Beautiful Month.

Innovation & Technology

A Role for Technology in Helping Find Missing Children

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was founded in 1984, following several cases of child abduction that caught the nation’s attention.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Merck earns 2020 Energy Star Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award

Merck received the 2020 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR. Merck has been named a Partner of the Year for 15 years in a row...

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

ON Semiconductor Funds Local High School’s Global Initiative Microbiology Research

As Nelson Mandela says, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Education is the key to eliminating gender inequality, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, to preventing needless deaths and illness, and to fostering peace.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Media Advisory: New Leadership For A Global Crisis

The UN Global Compact has shared a special appeal for a corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic: for all companies to take collective action to stem the outbreak through implementing our Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Urgency of a New Social Contract

The COVID-19 crisis makes one thing abundantly clear: the social contract between government, business, employees, and people is not working as it should. What steps can businesses take to remake the social contract and build for a better future?

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

Sea Change Radio

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?

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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.

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