Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Production & Consumption | Tetra Pak

Why Aseptic Cartons Matter in Global Food Systems

Most of us don’t often consider what happens to our milk or juice cartons once they’re empty. But the truth is, cartons do more than just contain food and drink—they protect it.
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Energy

Green Mountain Energy and Treehouse Partner to Offer Customers Affordable Option for EV Charger Installation

Green Mountain Energy

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

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

PNC Named One of Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies

This is the third annual Barron’s ranking of America’s Most Sustainable Companies, and PNC’s third appearance on the list.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

United Honored as One of America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)

In concert with the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), United Airlines is proud to be included on the 20th annual list of America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) for the 9th year running.

Diversity & Inclusion

A Mother’s Inspiration: "How My Mom’s Brave Actions Helped Shape My Future"

Johnson & Johnson’s Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Wanda Bryant Hope, shares what it was like for her mother to fight for equal rights in the 1960s.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CNH Industrial: Investing in the Technicians of Tomorrow

CNH Industrial N.V. in collaboration with the Salesian Institute "San Zeno" Launched the first TechPro2 program in Verona, Italy, focusing on training in mechanical industries.

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Events, Media & Communications

CECP Welcomes CEOs of Aptiv (APTV), Henry Schein (HSIC), Philip Morris International (PM), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), and Welltower (WELL) to Present Long-Term Plans at Strategic Investor Initiative’s 8th CEO Investor Forum

CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative (SII) announced that five CEOs will present their companies’ Long-Term Plans to institutional investors at CECP’s 8th CEO Investor Forum on February 24th, 2020, in New York City.

Green Infrastructure

Southern California Edison Files 2020-22 Wildfire Mitigation Plan

Southern California Edison today filed its proposed 2020-22 Wildfire Mitigation Plan with the California Public Utilities Commission. SCE’s multiyear plan builds on the progress made last year to reduce the risk of fire ignitions caused by utility infrastructure.

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Media & Communications

Who Is the “Best Of” of Sustainable Companies in the Important Annual Rankings? Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – What Reflection for Our Company?

Mirror, mirror on the wall – who is the most sustainable company of them all? That memorable line from the Walt Disney Studios’ 1930s classic is being regularly applied now by a widening range of third party players

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Diversity & Inclusion

Arrow Electronics Named Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality in 2020

Arrow Electronics has achieved a 100 percent score on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Media & Communications

PAPERbecause Celebrates 10 Years of Paper Advocacy

Domtar's award-winning PAPERbecause campaign recognizes the enduring value of the printed page. It delivers creative and entertaining reminders of the benefits of paper through eye catching print ads in popular magazines and newspapers.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Consumer Trends That Will Help Communicators in 2020

This Porter Novelli/Cone Gen Z Purpose Study establishes what makes potential customers tick, the stimuli that motivate them, and how their habits and preferences are evolving.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comerica Bank, KPMG's Family for Literacy Donates 4,000 New Books to Benjamin Franklin International Exploratory Academy

Comerica Bank and its community partner KPMG’s Family for Literacy Dallas donated 4,000 new books to Benjamin Franklin International Exploratory Academy library on Thursday, Jan. 30.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investors Have a Fiduciary Responsibility to Combat the Climate Crisis

Investors should consider long-term climate and environmental risks as fundamentally material, and act accordingly. Prioritizing ESG and using all the tools of active ownership to hold portfolio companies accountable for environmental harms.

Diversity & Inclusion

‘The Voice of Blind People Hasn't Been Heard’: Inside the Fight for Audio-described Ads

.@ProcterGamble Company Accessibility Leader Sam Latif decided to lead the drive for audio-described ads and was blown away at how easy it was to produce an inclusive spot for consumers who are blind and visually impaired.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Cocoa For Good

Supporting our cocoa communities is more than an investment—it’s about enabling lasting and systemic change.

FSG Reimagining Social Change

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

New Blog: The Importance of Framing for Foundations Engaging on Equity

It’s not always what you say, but how you say it.

Environment

This Is How the IOC and the Olympic Games Are Addressing Climate Change

Here's how the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Games are addressing climate change.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The City of Detroit and FCA Seek Artists to Paint One of the Largest Municipal Art Installations in Detroit's History

This Valentine’s Day, FCA will join Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship and City Walls Detroit murals program in showing the city some love.

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Energy

Wide Bandgap Technology Enables Future Solar Power Solutions

However, without appropriate technology that is able to deliver energy efficiently and at a comparable price point to existing technology, many government-backed initiatives to promote solar power are unlikely to be wholly successful.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Schneider Electric's Commitment to Sustainability Recognized at Davos

Schneider Electric was ranked among the “Global 100” most sustainable companies by Corporate Knights for the seventh year running, coming 29th overall and first in its category.

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Education

"You’ve Got to See It, to Be It.” Bristol-Myers Squibb Partners with W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars Institute

"You’ve got to see it, to be it.” This quote by American activist Marian Wright Edelman embodies the personal and professional philosophy of Charlotte Jones-Burton , M.D., M.S, Cardiovascular Development Team Lead, Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Adobe Partners With Teach for America to Bring Creativity to Classrooms

At Adobe we believe that everyone is creative. Creativity is not exclusive or a special gift endowed only upon a lucky few.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Helping Connect Rural Communities in Argentina

The rural town of Tandil relies on its road network to not only enable people to keep in touch with one another, but also to ensure these rural, and sometimes remote businesses, are able to bring their products to market.

Education

APIA Scholars Rings in Lunar New Year With $1.2 Million Donation From Wells Fargo

Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholars, the nation’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the higher education needs of the APIA community, is ringing in the Lunar New Year with a $1.2 million grant from Wells Fargo.

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Health & Healthcare

International Paper Addresses Period Poverty in Video Submitted to Corporate Citizenship Film Festival

International Paper’s new video “Fighting Period Poverty in Our Own Backyards” has been entered in the 2020 Corporate Citizenship Film Festival, hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.

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Education

Cisco Networking Academy Creates a Much-Needed Skills-to-Job Pathway for Diverse Midwest Students

Characterized as a ‘job machine,’ the US economy has had several years of prosperity and solid job growth. But this doesn’t mean that it’s prosperous for all Americans and all job sectors.

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  9. Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 5
    Welcome to Season 5 of Healthy Spaces by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation...

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    Team Dow remains agile and focused on taking proactive actions to improve profitability in the midst of persistent macroeconomic challenges, while...

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    Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...

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