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Bacardi-Owned BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Announces ‘Electrifying’ Global Partnership With E1 Series

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® is stepping into the world of sports entertainment, announcing a new global partnership with E1 Series – the world’s first all-electric race boat Championship that combines sports, entertainment and a respect for the world’s ‘natural blues.’

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Education

Educate. Inspire. Include

A joint effort with Girls Inc. of New York City, the Moody’s Generation Giga Girls (G3) Data Analytics elective teaches high school girls about data analytics and critical thinking. The G3 program seeks to give girls the confidence to pursue careers in finance, technology and economics.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sysco's 2025 Goals for Its People

Big impacts require big commitments. That’s why Sysco is making a significant investment in communities – with a special emphasis on hunger. We’re also doing more to expand opportunity for our associates and our suppliers, and increasing the availability of healthy products that reach the tables of millions of diners each day.

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Green Infrastructure

Announcing WELL v2 Crosswalks: The Blueprint for Applying WELL Alongside Other Global Standards

At the International WELL Building InstituteTM (IWBITM), we strive to make the WELL Building StandardTM (WELLTM) as accessible, impactful and localized as possible for global users. One of our key initiatives that sits at the heart of that goal is crosswalks. These resources are intended to identify synergies between WELL and other global building rating systems, and streamline efforts for projects seeking a dual rating by acknowledging where WELL requirements are deemed equivalent or aligned with aspects of the alternate building rating tool.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

SPARK Continues to Ignite a Passion for Science Around the World

From Europe and Asia to the Americas, MilliporeSigma employees gave back to their local communities in more ways than one during SPARK Week, October 13-21, 2018. Not only did they teach Curiosity Labs™ lessons and host site tours, but they also brought science education to a low-income village and an orphanage, impacting thousands of students by providing them with hands-on experiments to spark their curiosity in science.

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Energy

ACCIONA Energy Joins Schneider Electric in Global Partnership to Accelerate Corporate Renewable Energy Adoption

ACCIONA Energy and Schneider Electric today announced that the world-leading company in renewables has joined Schneider’s New Energy Opportunities (NEO) Network™, a growing community of forward-thinking organizations committed to buying and developing renewable energy and clean technologies around the world. The partnership will give the over 150 commercial and industrial companies that are NEO Network members access to a more diverse set of purchasing options to meet their sustainability targets. It will also help ACCIONA streamline the expansion of its portfolio.

Health & Healthcare

Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis, the World’s #1 Infectious Killer

Ahead of the first-ever United Nations (UN) High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (TB), Johnson & Johnson yesterday announced a comprehensive 10-year initiative in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target of ending the TB pandemic by 2030. With the goal of saving an estimated 1.8 million lives and preventing 12 million new TB infections in the next decade, Johnson & Johnson will work with partners to improve detection of undiagnosed cases of TB, broaden access to its novel medicine for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), and accelerate research & development (R&D) to discover next-generation TB treatments.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru Hosts Event to Help Pets in Need During 2019 Chicago Auto Show

Subaru of America, Inc. today announced it will be hosting a pet adoption event during the 2019 Chicago Auto Show through partnerships with two local animal shelters – ALIVE Rescue and Hopeful Tails Animal Rescue. Both 501(c)3 non-profit organizations are dedicated to improving the safety and well-being of Chicago’s homeless and at-risk animals.

Environment

Bridging the Data Gap in Environmental Reporting: GRI Releases Discussion Paper With Key Findings on Corporate Reporting on Water and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Bridging the data gap in environmental reporting: GRI releases discussion paper with key findings on corporate reporting on water and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Novo Nordisk Publishes Integrated 2018 Annual Report

Novo Nordisk has published its integrated 2018 Annual Report detailing the company’s year-end performance. The report highlights the company’s progression towards long-term targets taking an integrated approach that accounts for financial, social and environmental performance.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Ultra-Poor Graduation Partnership to Reach 4000 in Burundi

We are excited to announce our new partnership with Concern Worldwide in Burundi to support their Terintambwe program, which provides case management services to ultra-poor households so they have opportunities to become more self-sufficient and start small businesses.

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Diversity & Inclusion

A Look Back at Gildan’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives

As a global company, Gildan recognizes that one of its greatest strengths comes from the collective diversity of its organization. The Company is focused on supporting a culture that encourages the contributions of everyone and is invested in the development of its employees and communities, further enabling them to recognize and reach their full potential.

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Green Infrastructure

Watch: Living Future CEO Amanda Sturgeon speak at TEDMED 2018

Last November, ILFI CEO Amanda Sturgeon spoke at TEDMED 2018, the independent health and medicine edition of the world-famous TED conference, dedicated to “ideas worth spreading.” In her speech, Amanda talked about biophilic design, human health, and how the former can benefit the latter, as well as the role architecture can play in bringing nature back to our (mostly indoor) lives.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Keep America Beautiful Recognizes National Leaders and Community Organizations with Awards at 2019 National Conference

More than 80 individuals, including community leaders from national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful’s community-based affiliate network and other partner organizations, are being recognized today at Keep America Beautiful’s National Awards Ceremony, which is taking place during Keep America Beautiful’s National Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 6-8.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Sappi Puts Its People First With Social Responsibility Goals

The following offers a view of our annual performance in important areas of environmental and social responsibility. We monitor key metrics for fiber, emissions, energy usage and the impact of our operations on air, water and solid waste. We use this data to set improvement goals for our operations and interactions with key stakeholders.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Scotiabank and Tecnológico de Monterrey Announce Factory A in Mexico City, a Corporate Accelerator Designed to Foster Fintech Innovation and Growth

Factory A will select 10 FinTech ventures made up of young entrepreneurs from Latin America to join the program's Entrepreneur Coworking ecosystem.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Changing of the Guard

Cecily Joseph has run Symantec’s Corporate Responsibility (CR) program for the past 13 years. This week she’s moving on to a new chapter in her life and is passing the reigns to Jaime Barclay, Senior Manager of CR at Symantec. Jaime has extensive experience in philanthropy and CR, and has been a dedicated Symantec employee for more than a decade. We asked Cecily and Jaime to interview each other – to give us a look into their past work together as well what we can expect to see next.

Environment

DSM's Akulon RePurposed: From Discarded Fishing Nets to High-End Materials

DSM and Starboard transform discarded fishing nets into high-end surfboard components and contribute to cleaner oceans, litter-free beaches and jobs for local communities.

Education

Durkan’s dscvr and the Future of Hospitality Design

Each year we look forward to highlighting the talent of designers in the hospitality field and supporting the education of future designers through the Durkan dscvr Student Design Competition. This year we are excited to showcase the stellar achievements of our 2018 grand prize winner, Brianne Brooks.

Brooks put her winnings to good use, applying the scholarship to pay for textbooks and other education expenses. In addition she was able to pursue LEED Green Associate certification and undertake an internship. Brooks plans to graduate in May with a degree in interior design and is now considering a career in hospitality design.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Lockheed Pledges $1 Million to Coast Guard Museum Project

Lockheed Martin, which owns Stratford-based Sikorsky, has pledged $1 million to the National Coast Guard Museum, the largest donation to date from the defense industry.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Is Large-scale 3D Printing Sustainable?

With the introduction of its own 3D printing hardware line, dubbed Multi Jet Fusion (MJF), HP is expected to become a major player in the [Automated Manufacturing] ecosystem as well.

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Events, Media & Communications

CSRHub’s Bahar Gidwani Speaking at Generating Alpha

CSRHub CTO and Co-Founder Bahar Gidwani will be speaking at Skytop Strategies Generating Alpha conference, in New York on February 13th. Bahar will join a panel discussing Alpha from Impact: Identifying Opportunities in ESG.

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Environment

PFAS and Petroleum Fires: A Quandary for the Oil and Gas Industry

If you have manufactured and/or used PFAS-containing products, understand the implications of PFAS cleanup now.

Research, Reports & Publications

Erb Institute ICYMI: How Can Academia and Business Collaborate for Sustainability?

The Erb Institute engaged with several speakers and participants around key questions that relate to business, academia and sustainability, during a partner event with Innovation Forum in Detroit.

Events, Media & Communications

Hormel Foods Corporate Responsibility Efforts Featured in Film Festival

The Hormel Foods Our Food Journey™ video that showcases the company’s efforts to make the world a better place is featured in an international corporate citizenship film festival.

The inspirational piece was created as an anthem video to explain to stakeholders what Our Food Journey™ means to the company and to showcase all that Hormel Foods is doing. From hunger-relief efforts to animal welfare and environmental stewardship, Hormel Foods is inspired to make a difference.

Public voting determines which videos move into the top 10. The videos that receive enough votes to make it into the top 10 will be judged by a panel of corporate responsibility experts; winners will be announced at the Boston College International CSR Conference in April.

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Education

Lip Balm and Gumdrops are Inspiring Tomorrow’s Workforce

In 2000, Techbridge Girls (TBG) - a leader in supporting girls and marginalized communities in breaking into the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields - was launched at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California. As STEM fields have historically been dominated by males, women and girls, especially those of color, are consistently and disproportionately left out and often lack information on the multitude of STEM career opportunities available to them. In 2015, Subaru began funding TBG’s after school programs in Seattle, WA, and has since become a national supporter of all three TBG direct service locations.

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