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Sustainable Development Goals

Bayer Launches Large-scale Pre-launch Trial of New Tomato Varieties with Resistance to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV)

Bayer announced today the final large-scale pre-launch trials of Roma-type tomatoes to help growers address Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV). The trials, which begin later this month in Mexico, will include two varieties of Roma-type...

Social Impact & Volunteering

Watch: This is Aflac's Social Justice Heritage

Teresa White, President of Aflac U.S., shares how diversity has been part of Aflac since the beginning and discusses their commitment to social justice and celebrating diversity today.

Media & Communications

As Summer 2020 Nears End in Northern Hemisphere - Quo Vadis, Corporate Sustainability and ESG/Sustainable Investing?

This has been a strange summer in the northern climes, as the corporate sector and capital markets players meet the challenges of the corona virus, economic downturn, and civil protests.

Research, Reports & Publications

Deal-Seeking Goes Mainstream: Honey Study Reveals Americans Are Changing How They Shop, Date and Flaunt Thriftiness

In the current climate, with more people needing to make their money go further, Honey can help find savings and earn shoppers rewards to buy more of what they love and need.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Mastronardi Completes 5th EFI Certification

Mastronardi Produce has certified its fifth operation through Equitable Food Initiative. This certification marks a worthy milestone for Mastronardi, making it one of just a handful of companies to have certified five or more operations.

Research, Reports & Publications

Essity's Annual and Sustainability Report 2019

The Report has been structured in accordance with GRI principles, meaning that the content is determined by the issues that are most material to Essity and its stakeholders, and that the content provides a complete overview of the operations.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives S2E20: Dana Castro, HP & Justin van Fleet, GBC-Education

Hear how HP and GBC-Education are combining their talents and resources to ensure all children have access to quality education, plus how other companies, nonprofits, and public sector institutions can join the movement to close the digital divide.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Land Betterment Creates Economic Mobility Through Supply Chain Resilience

Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”) believes it is imperative to the sustainability of its business to create resilient supply chains.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

A Powerful Interim Step Towards a Single, Coherent Global Set of Reporting Standards

The five global sustainability, ESG and integrated reporting framework and standard setting organizations have today launched a report outlining the elements necessary for more comprehensive corporate reporting.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Q&A With Juliana Johnson, Manager of Inventory Reporting and Sourcing at Gildan

To honour Hispanic Heritage Month, we sat down with Juliana Johnson, who works at our Charleston office in South Carolina, to learn more about what her heritage means to her.

Energy

25% of McCain Argentina Electric Energy Comes From Renewable Sources

McCain Argentina, the leading company in the production of frozen foods, is supplying its plant located in Balcarce, province of Buenos Aires, with renewable electricity, currently covering 25% of its total demand.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Raising Civic-Minded Children to Become Allied Adults as We Remember the Birmingham Bombing

“How can I help?” is a question we often utter when those around us are struggling – even suffering – and we’re actually feeling helpless. We want to do something immediately to make all the pain and discomfort go away, for them and for us.

Media & Communications

UPS Longitudes | Podcast: Black Business and Transportation Equity

Whether at the local or federal level, Anthony Foxx knows perhaps better than anybody how transportation can forever transform a community — for better or worse.

Events, Media & Communications

SB Brands for Good Announces Three New Developments

SB Brands for Good, a coalition of leading brands convened by Sustainable Brands, today announces three new developments.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Civic Engagement Content Ensures Employee Votes Count in 2020 Presidential Election

Benevity and Countable partner to help companies inform people about critical civic issues, educate and encourage critical thinking with regard to media consumption, and make their vote count in the upcoming 2020 U.S. election.

Events, Media & Communications

New Speakers Announced for RBS Europe! CEO of Thomson Reuters, Chief of Staff of Phillips, and More!

The Responsible Business Europe 2020 [22-26 October], is the world’s leading event highlighting the latest ideas, strategies and collaborations shaping the future of sustainable business.

Sustainable Development Goals

Join Jed Emerson and Zita Cobb at #SVM2020

COVID 19 has offered few bright lights, one positive aspect might be how our virtual #SVM2020 conference has enable many new connections.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Arrow Electronics Sponsors Junior Achievement Initiative for K-12 Students in Economically Disadvantaged Communities

Arrow Electronics is supporting a Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain (JA) initiative that will deliver increased programming to K-12 students in economically disadvantaged communities in Denver.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

IBEW Local 47 Members, SCE Employees Help Feed Those in Need

As Robert Madrigal lifted the heavy food donation boxes into a car recently at Long Beach City College, he could see the long line of vehicles waiting in the drive-through line stretching back almost to the nearby freeway.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IES & IWBI Announce Joint Memorandum of Understanding

The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) are pleased to announce a memorandum of understanding enabling future collaboration to improve the quality of our indoor environments...

Research, Reports & Publications

America's Pledge Reveals U.S. States, Cities, and Businesses Accelerated Their Climate Progress Despite Trump, Global Pandemic, and Economic Downturn

Today, America’s Pledge co-chairs, former California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. and Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies, and three-term Mayor of New York City, unveiled America’s Pledge’s fourth analysis, which finds that despite the past four years of environmental rollbacks from President Trump’s administration, non-federal actors have successfully counterbalanced the climate denial and obstruction from the White House. This has made it possible for the U.S. to reach net zero emissions by 2050 with aggressive federal climate re-engagement in 2021.

Health & Healthcare

Alexion Partners With One Mind at Work

Advancing the emotional well-being of the rare disease community, our employees, and the communities in which we live, and work is a core commitment of ours. During Mental Health Awareness Month, we strengthened this commitment by joining...

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

A Coalition on a Mission to Eliminate Persistent Poverty in the U.S.

Education

IBM Envisions Accelerated P-TECH Growth for More Diversity and Opportunity. Is Your Region In?

IBM is proud to do its part to create a more diverse & equal society. We recently committed to 1,000 P-TECH internships in the US through 2021 alone. We have liaisons stationed full time at the many P-TECH schools were are directly affiliated with.

Environment

Climate Action 100+ Calls for Net-zero Business Strategies & Sets Out Benchmark of Largest Corporate Emitters

Letter sent to CEOs & chair of the board at 161 global companies sets out benchmark and calls on firms to commit to net-zero business strategies.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  2. Corporate Social Responsibility
    Whirlpool Corporation has several CSR partners including United Way, Habitat for Humanity International, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Consulada...
  3. 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...
  4. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  5. CACI Celebrates Veterans and Military Families Month
    This Veterans and Military Families Month, we celebrate the strength, dedication, and sacrifices of former service members and their loved ones. CACI...
  6. CARE Corporate Partnerships
    CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.
  7. Southwire Giving Back
    Our neighbors depend on us, just as we depend on them, so we are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which we work. At...
  8. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...
  9. Community Impact
    The communities where Chemours operates are also where we live, work, and play, and our mutual success is one and the same. We have a vested interest...
  10. Sustainability by Antea Group
    At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...
  11. Collective Action
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...
  12. 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...
  13. GoDaddy | Customers
    GoDaddy is the world’s largest services platform for entrepreneurs around the globe. We’re on a mission to empower our worldwide community of 20+...
  14. 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...
  15. GoDaddy | Microbusiness
    They’re the people who build websites, run restaurants, and teach online classes. They power local economies and national growth but their impact...