Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Health & Healthcare

The IWBI Special Report Chapter Series: “K-12 Education: The Pandemic's Impossible Choice”

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March of 2020, school officials around the world faced often impossible choices

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Drawdown Georgia Celebrates First Year: Kicks Off Business Compact with Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business

Drawdown Georgia is offically one year old today, and we're celebrating with the launch of the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact, hosted at the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Entergy Mobilizes Customer Information Centers in Areas Hard Hit by Ida

Entergy employees from across our four-state service territory have traveled to join their coworkers in serving Louisiana customers’ needs, in-person, at Customer Information Centers until power is restored to the area.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Quiz: What Type of Conscious Consumer Are You? Let Us Guess!

Choosing where to put your philanthropic efforts can be difficult when there are so many important causes out there that need our help! Walk through this “day in the life” quiz, and we bet we can guess the charitable cause that matters most to you.

Environment

BIER Stakeholder Spotlight: Rachel Nally

Welcome to our series aimed at spotlighting the individual leaders within BIER member companies and stakeholder organizations.

Events, Media & Communications

Philadelphia Union, Subaru Team Up to Help Dogs Find Forever Homes. Make a Dog's Day Fest 10/24

Before every home game, fans can gather at the Subaru Pet Plaza to meet and greet cuddly pups in need of a forever home. Working with local shelters, the hope is to unite adoptable dogs with loving fans.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

FedEx Works Alongside Local Food Banks to Help Fight Hunger

In response to the hunger crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, FedEx quickly ramped up its longtime support of local food banks across the country last spring, creating a lifeline for hungry people in key cities of operation.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Greener Chemistry for a More Sustainable World

How can a running track be better for people and planet? How does a paint coating also help clean the air? What can make one soda can more sustainable than another? The answer, of course, is green chemistry or more sustainable chemistry.

Environment

Imagine a Day Without Water

Water plays a vital role in our day to day lives, yet an estimated 785 million people globally do not have access to basic water services.

Media & Communications

ESG Reporting Frameworks & Standards - Continue to Multiply

The number of ESG disclosure and reporting guidelines, frameworks and standards continues to expand – here comes the GRI Universal Standards, the SASB XRBL Taxonomy, and much more.

Research, Reports & Publications

Musim Mas Group Releases Its 4th Annual Sustainability Report With Selected Disclosures in the Report Independently Assured by Ernst & Young LLP (EY)

Musim Mas Group releases its fourth annual Sustainability Report, which updates the Group’s sustainability performance for the 2020 calendar year.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fifth Third Announces Neighborhood Investment Program in Collaboration with Enterprise Community Partners and CDC of Tampa to Transform East Tampa

Fifth Third intends to commit up to $20 million in lending, investments and philanthropic support, including grants from the Fifth Third Foundation to East Tampa.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Skills for Cities: Common Impact to Connect Corporate and Nonprofit Worlds to Advance Efforts Around Racial and Digital Equity

Skills for Cities will bring together volunteers from 16 companies including Verizon, Boston Dynamics, Equitable, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, John Hancock, and Truist and leaders of 17 BIPOC-led, racial equity, and digital inclusion nonprofits.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Safety on All Frequencies in Canada's Extreme Climates

Enbridge has a relationship with Sahtu Search and Rescue dating back to 2015, giving $7,500 each year as part of our commitment to improving safety in communities near our operations.

Environment

Xylem Expands Partnership with Imagine H2O to Support Water Innovation Entrepreneurs

Xylem’s recently launched Xylem Innovation Labs will work across Imagine H2O’s programs to support entrepreneurs pioneering sustainable solutions to the water challenges facing communities and businesses.

Health & Healthcare

5 Ways Johnson & Johnson Is Working to Improve the Well-Being of the World by 2025

With its just-announced Health for Humanity 2025 Goals, Johnson & Johnson is taking on two critical health challenges currently confronting people around the world: pandemics and epidemics and health equity.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Yum! Brands Extends Partnership With NextGen Consortium To Accelerate Circular Foodservice Packaging Solutions

As a supporting partner, Yum! and its KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell & The Habit Burger Grill brands will continue to collaborate with other companies to help advance sustainable foodservice packaging solutions that are recoverable across infrastructures.

Environment

Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI) Leads $2 Million Debt Facility for Cleantech Startup Standard Biocarbon's First Manufacturing Facility

Standard Biocarbon (SBC) announced today that it secured $2 million in financing from three Maine-based institutions to purchase equipment for producing high quality biochar at the former site of the Great Northern Paper mill in East Millinocket.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

SportsBusiness Journal Names STAPLES Center Senior Vice President of Guest Services and Security Danielle Snyder As 2021 Game Changers “Women in Sports Business” Honoree

AEG’s Danielle Snyder, senior vice president of guest services and security at STAPLES Center, has been named an honoree of SportsBusiness Journal’s 2021 Game Changers “Women in Sports Business.”

Events, Media & Communications

'Common Prosperity' and Sustainable Future High on the Agenda at 4th Cgf China Day

BEIJING and SHANGHAI, 18th October 2021 – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) will host on 22nd November the fourth annual edition of the CGF China Day in Beijing.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Power Plant Workers Embrace Change as Industry Adds Renewable Energy

Duke Energy employees in Midwest learn new skills as industry invests in renewables, retires coal

Innovation & Technology

People Behind CSR at Cisco: Early-stage Tech Entrepreneurs Get a Boost From Cisco's Global Problem Solver Challenge

Robots plucking trash out of oceans and low-cost bionic limbs; these are just two winning concepts from the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, which announced its latest winners in June.

Research, Reports & Publications

ESG Technology Guide: Future-proof Your Reporting

There’s been a sea change for ESG that is getting serious C-level attention.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Innovation Pays Off During the Pandemic

With the world still reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, American business focused on innovation and social innovation to succeed in these uncertain times.

Research, Reports & Publications

2021 EcoVadis Sustainability Index Highlights: Supply Chain Risks Compromise Global Performance Growth

In its fifth year, the 2021 Sustainability Risk and Performance Index examines the sustainability performance of more than 46,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis during the period 2016-2020 and provides critical insights into trends in environmental, social and ethical practices across diverse regions and industries.

Latest Campaigns

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    Document rapid interventions when crises strike: delivering therapeutic food, water, hygiene kits, and deploying mobile med
  2. Special Economic Zones
    Driving awareness of Special Economic Zones.
  3. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  4. 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...
  5. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  6. Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)
    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
  7. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  8. Global Heat Reduction Initiative
    News and updates from the Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR).
  9. Food Systems and Livelihoods
    Illustrate how resilient food systems and economic empowerment enable long-term food security. Cover climate-smart agriculture, local market access...
  10. Antea Group Brand
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  11. Sustainable Operations
    As a global organization with more than 300,000 products and employing 20,000 people across more than 60 countries, we recognize the importance of...
  12. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  13. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  14. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is embedded in our company values. We actively promote it among our employees, raise awareness, and foster an...
  15. Supply Chain Dive AI Playbook 2025
    Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept – it’s already transforming supply chains end to end. In a new Playbook developed by DP...