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Green Infrastructure

Leaders Call for Bold Action Where Climate, Health, and Equity Meet in the Built Environment

Living Future 2021: Inclusion + Unity put a spotlight on climate, health, and equity in the built environment, closing today with awards celebrating leaders and projects inspiring transformational changes.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

SAIC Joins Border Patrol Foundation Partnership

The Border Patrol Foundation (BPF) is pleased to announce that SAIC has become a national partner of the foundation. The BPF honors the memory of fallen U.S. Border Patrol agents and provides support and financial resources to their families.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Leaders of the World's Largest Companies Discuss Aligning Stakeholder Needs With Core Business Strategy

Exemplifying a commitment to focus on stakeholder needs as a part of the core business strategy, more than a dozen leading CEOs virtually gathered for a session in Chief of Executives for Corporate Purpose’s© (CECP) 2021 Board of Boards Series. Led by Carmine Di Sibio, EY Global Chairman and CEO, this closed-door session focused on CEO priorities as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing in recent EY survey research on plans to “build back better”.

Health & Healthcare

Are You Thinking About Your Alcohol Drinking Habits?

If you’ve been thinking about your drinking habits this #AlcoholAwarenessMonth and would like to explore further, asking yourself some of these questions could help.

Sustainable Development Goals

Brands Celebrate Earth Day by Activating Stakeholders

Yesterday, we celebrated the 51st global Earth Day. Leading up to the day, we saw trillion-dollar commitments, business leaders signing environmentally focused pledges and increasing engagement in the circular economy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Two Abbott Technologies Win Edison Award

Knowledge is power. Especially when it comes to your health. That's why we created products to give people the information they need, when they need it most, to make the best decisions for their health — during a pandemic or not.

Environment

Add This Podcast to Your List: The Edge of Energy, Presented by Scotiabank and Produced by the Walrus Lab

The eight-episode series, presented by Scotiabank, produced by The Walrus Lab and hosted by Kofi Hope, features talks with industry experts and innovators who explain what it will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

Environment

Dow on Earth Day 2021: One Future, Together

Across the world, businesses and governments are ramping up technological investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles and green building initiatives. The global goal? Reach a net zero economy by 2050.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Proxy Voting, ESG, and the Future of Fund Disclosure

At the ICI Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference, Acting SEC Chairwoman Allison Herren Lee noted that many millennials and other sustainability-minded investors are putting their money where their hearts are, in funds with environmenta...

Environment

CGF Environmental Sustainability Newsletter - Q1 2021

In this video, hear from the CGF's Aliya Kumekbayeva as he gives updates from the CGF's Environmental Sustainability Coalitions of Action.

Environment

Ceres Applauds President Biden's Announcement of a Strong National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target

Ceres applauds today’s announcement by the Biden administration of a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the U.S.

Diversity & Inclusion

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Launches 'Nuestras Finanzas' to Bring Financial Education Initiatives to the Latino Community

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises is celebrating Financial Literacy Month with the kickoff of Nuestras Finanzas (Our Finances), a national program designed to inform and encourage U.S. Hispanics to accelerate their financial freedom and success.

Research, Reports & Publications

SJW Group Releases 2020 Sustainability Report: Coast to Coast

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Henkel Recognized as One of America's Best Employers for Diversity 2021 by Forbes

Henkel’s long-standing commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce is reflected in its values and practices.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru of America Supports Camden Artists Through Public Art Installations

Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) today announced that it will help fund “A New View,” a public art project stemming from a $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant

Responsible Production & Consumption

Driving Packaging Sustainability From the Start

Fabien Thibault, global manager, product and packaging sustainability, gives an overview of his company's ambitions and actions in the realm of packaging sustainability in his recent article for Packaging Europe.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

MENTOR and American Student Assistance Launch National Campaign to Promote Youth, Equity in Workplace Culture

MENTOR and American Student Assistance (ASA), a national nonprofit that fosters education and career pathways, launched a comprehensive workforce development campaign to create more diverse and equitable workplaces for our nation’s young people.

Energy

Ørsted and the UN Global Compact to Help Companies Put Carbon Reduction at the Heart of Their Business

Global society has less than ten years to halve carbon emissions and stay below the critical 1.5°C threshold of global warming.

Diversity & Inclusion

Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership: Cognizance of Bias

See how pro bono builds cognizance of bias, one of Deloitte's Six Traits of Inclusive Leadership, in this profile from Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership.

Environment

Happy Earth Day! Duke Energy and Partners Work to Restore Habitat at Florida's Lake George

Lake George and Silver Glen Springs in Marion County, Fla., are getting an aquatic habitat boost during the week of Earth Day.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Operations Awarded the Copper Mark for Responsible Production Practices

The Morenci mining operations in Arizona is Freeport-McMoRan’s sixth site – and the eighth in the world – to achieve the Copper Mark

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Tetra Tech's Former National Fireworks Site Remediation Team Wins Company's 2020 Safety Achievement Award

The Tetra Tech remediation team for the Former National Fireworks Site dealt with multiple health and safety challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the processing of hazardous and radiological wastes mixed with unexploded munitions.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Tetra Pak Introduces 14 State-of-the-Art Lines for Cheese Manufacturers

The hygienic production process enables a longer product shelf life, as well as consistent and replicable quality. Sustainability is also a factor, with solutions focusing on reducing water, steam, and power consumption.

Innovation & Technology

Ingenuity Helicopter Controlled by Qualcomm Chip Makes Historic 39-Second Flight on Mars

The solar-powered helicopter took off at 12:34 a.m. Pacific time and logged a total of 39.1 seconds of flight in the thin, cold Martian atmosphere.

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