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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Results Announced for 2016 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Review

Results Announced for 2016 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Review

LONDON, NEW YORK, ZURICH, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016: Today, S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), one of the world’s leading index providers, and RobecoSAM, the investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing (SI), announced the results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (“DJSI”) review.

Innovation & Technology

IAA Preview Mercedes-Benz Trucks

Environment

SCS Global Services Joins Consortium Promoting Product Environmental Transparency

SCS Global Services (SCS), a leading third-party certifier of environmental, social, and quality performance claims, is pleased to announce that it has joined the Program Operator Consortium (POC). The Consortium is comprised of standards developers and certifiers specializing in the development of Product Category Rules (PCRs) and the certification of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), working together to advance environmental product transparency in the marketplace.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Untangling the Supply Chain

Although industries like to imagine their supply chains as neat and orderly organization charts, the reality is that more often they are tangled, fluid, and full of potential for the unexpected. One way FCA US, a member of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCA) family of companies, addresses this uncertainty is through our Supplier Sustainability Panel.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Rebuilding Together and Lowe’s to Host Annual Building a Healthy Neighborhood Event in Cleveland, Ohio

Rebuilding Together, a leading national nonprofit in safe and healthy housing that provides low-income homeowners with critical home repairs, will join together with its affiliate, Rebuilding Together Northeast Ohio, to lead its sixth annual Building a Healthy Neighborhood community revitalization project in Cleveland, Ohio. The effort will be held Sept. 23-24, 2016 in Slavic Village, a historic neighborhood on the southeast side of Cleveland. The effort is expected to provide nearly $700,000 in market value back to the community.

Research, Reports & Publications

Calor Publishes 2015 Sustainability Review

Calor Gas Ltd – Britain’s leading supplier of bulk and bottled LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) – has today published its 2015 Sustainability Review.

Environment

As Seen on The Guardian: Turning Trash into Energy Makes Good Business Sense

Methane can cause smog, global warming and health problems. But there’s a silver lining: generating energy from the greenhouse gas improves air quality and reduces expenses and waste.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Q&A with Alice Korngold, Author, A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems...Where Governments Cannot

Alice Korngold, President & CEO, Korngold Consulting LLC, provides strategy advisory services and facilitates leadership strategy retreats for board members and executives from multinational corporations and NGOs.

Health & Healthcare

Red Cross and Disney Help Half a Million Kids and Families Prepare for Disasters

During National Preparedness Month in September, the American Red Cross is celebrating the significant impact of its signature disaster preparedness program for youth –The Pillowcase Project – which has reached more than 500,000 students nationwide, resulting in six lives saved.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Global Witness Exposes Reality of Continued Conflict Minerals Extortion in South Kivu, DRC

Last month, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu issued a formal statement recognizing adverse issues influencing the fraud and smuggling of conflict minerals in South Kivu. Minister Kabwelulu called for a thorough clean-up of the area’s mining sector.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Mobilizes to Help Louisiana Customers Impacted by Floods

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced the company will deploy its Mobile Response Unit to provide housing recovery assistance to Baton Rouge-area customers impacted by the recent flooding disaster.

Energy

The Hotel Block is Filling Up for Renewable Energy Markets 2016

Our reduced-rate hotel block is filling up fast, which means there could only be days (or hours!) to save nearly 40% off the current published rate—so act fast to lock in savings. Don't miss this final opportunity to save on the most engaging, informative, and interactive clean energy conference of the year—the hotel block deadline is September 24th.

Diversity & Inclusion

Atlas Copco Appoints Sofia Svingby Vice President Corporate Responsibility

The Atlas Copco Group has own operations in 92 countries and customers in more than 180. To achieve its mission of delivering sustainable profitable growth at all times doing business in a responsible and ethical way is deeply integrated in all steps of the value chain. Products and service are developed to increase customers’ productivity and the company strives to make each new generation safer, more energy-efficient and ergonomic then the previous one.

Research, Reports & Publications

Jackson Family Wines Announces 2021 Sustainability Goals

Today California-based Jackson Family Wines shared its first sustainability report, supported by a list of comprehensive 5-year goals. The family-owned wine company, known for its portfolio of premium wineries with such beloved household names as Kendall-Jackson, La Crema and Cambria, is a progressive leader in environmentally and socially responsible business practices.

Health & Healthcare

Innovation Partnership to Revolutionize Support Service Fulfillment

I am pleased to report that Mackenzie Innovation Institute (Mi2) has just entered into a new innovation partnership with Sodexo, our current supplier of comprehensive non-clinical support services.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Valuing Information v. Money: How Silicon Valley Fell for Wall Street

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Walmart Foundation is Working to Strengthen Career Pathways Across the U.S.

As a next step in an effort to increase economic mobility of workers in retail and adjacent sectors in the U.S., the Walmart Foundation today announced 10 Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) across the country will receive funding from The Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership (The Partnership).

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Water and Wastewater Industry Can Address Funding Challenges through Public-Private Partnerships

As water and wastewater utilities are challenged to minimize rate increases while balancing limited budgets – complicated by deferred maintenance, chronic underinvestment, competing projects and compliance mandates – one solution to consider is the public-private partnership (PPP) model.

Innovation & Technology

Most Useful Mobile Apps for EHS Managers

Managing compliance is a full-time job and to do it well, EHS managers need to have the right tools. We’ve put together a list of apps that we like (and use ourselves) to make EHS management a little easier.

We've broken them down into three categories: EHS-Specific Apps, General Business Apps, and Travel Apps (for those EHS managers who are on the road a lot visiting mulitple sites.)

Education

Fall 2016 US Travel Award Cycle Opens

The Amgen Scholars Program seeks to increase research proficiency and to promote professional networking opportunities for program alumni who are committed to scientific careers.

Innovation & Technology

How HPE Living Progress Challenge Uses Technology to Better Lives

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

K-C New Zealand Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary

Kimberly-Clark New Zealand (KCNZ) recently celebrated 25 years of brand leadership and investment in long-term community partnerships and innovation in the New Zealand market.

Latest Campaigns

  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  4. Corporate Social Responsibility
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  5. Protecting our planet
    We believe that people can only live their healthiest lives on a healthy planet. That’s why we reduce our environmental footprint by finding...
  6. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  7. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  8. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  9. Planet
    Minimizing our environmental footprint and being part of the solution to climate change.
  10. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  11. 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...
  12. Research
    Showcase Action Against Hunger’s pioneering role in advancing malnutrition treatment—from early therapeutic formulas (F100, F75) to ongoing innovation...
  13. Drawdown Georgia
    Informed by Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, Drawdown Georgia is the first state-centered effort to crowdsolve...
  14. Community Impact
    Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.
  15. Building a Sustainable Future | Decarbonizing the Built Environment
    The building sector accounts for nearly 40% of carbon emissions and nearly 50% of the consumption of natural resources. The industry stands at a...