Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Sustainable Development Goals

Our Sustainable Future

Comcast recently convened hundreds of employees for Our Sustainable Future, an event focused on inspiring and empowering teams across the company to support our environmental goals.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Ripple Effect: How Good Governance Builds Outward in Commercial Banking

The introduction of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into financial reporting is slowly but surely bringing clarity to the often complex realm of banking.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bloomberg Impact Report 2022: A Message From Mike

The world is in transition, moving away from a past powered and polluted by fossil fuels and heading towards a future that runs on clean and renewable energy.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Suncor Energy Foundation Celebrates 25 Years of Investing in Community

Created in 1998, the Suncor Energy Foundation (SEF) is a private, charitable foundation established by Suncor in 1998. Over 25 years, it has donated more than $260 million to support a wide variety of organizations.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GoDaddy's 2022 Sustainability Report: Our Customers - Venture Forward

At GoDaddy, our commitment to inclusive entrepreneurship is supported by what we know: that the long-term success of entrepreneurs and their microbusinesses supports the economic wellbeing and resilience of communities.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

KFC Foundation Awards $2.5 Million in Scholarships—The Biggest Award Year to Date

In 2023, 500+ KFC restaurant employees received a KFC Foundation Scholarship. Of those, eleven KFC restaurant employees received a $20,000 scholarship, and hundreds received a $5,000 or $2,500 award.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Awarding the African Innovators Shaping the Future of Health

Two innovators shaping the future of health across Africa — each tackling unique health systems challenges faced within the continent — have been recognized with the GBCHealth Future United Africa Award during an awards ceremony at the Africa-UK Health Summit in London in April.

Environment

WWF Outlines Policy Actions To Save Grasslands

A new brief from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) details policy actions the US government must take to conserve America’s grassland prairie habitats.

Innovation & Technology

The Metaverse: Next Gen ’Net With a Human Touch

In the season finale of Source De[Code]’s, host Ben Coffin talks to three guests from previous episodes—Sarah Laselva, Jonathan Wright, and Dr. Silviu Torin and Dr. Alan Bovik-- to explore The Metaverse.

Environment

Georgia’s Changing Carbon Footprint

Georgia’s overall greenhouse gas emissions are declining, experts and researchers from the Drawdown Georgia Research Team announced. Most emission reductions come from the use of cleaner fuels to generate electricity in the state

Environment

Turning Ambition Into Bold Action and Impact

Trane Technologies has clear ambitions to reduce our customers’ carbon footprint by one gigaton; to lead by example in the way we approach carbon, waste, water and energy in our own operations; and to create opportunity for all by removing barriers.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Franklin Templeton Employee Volunteers Assemble Meals Bags, Sort Clothes, Teach Students and Walk Pets for Charity

On March 30, Baltimore volunteered at Junior Achievement’s Finance Park where students had the opportunity to explore their personal financial futures first-hand.

Diversity & Inclusion

Girls in ICT Day: Preparing the Next Generation for a Digital and Low-Carbon Economy

At Cisco, we want the future to be sustainable, inclusive, and resilient. To prepare for this future, the global workforce is transitioning to jobs that will focus on finding innovative solutions to some of our biggest challenges, including climate change.

Health & Healthcare

Healthier Lives’s Co-Chairs Carrefour and Danone Create Appetite for Flexitarian Diets With “Le Meilleur Du Végétal”

Collaboration kicks-off between major french retailers and manufactuers to nudge consumers towards healthier and more sustainable diets

Environment

IP and NFWF Celebrate the Role of Sustainable Forest Management in Conserving Habitat for the Swallow-Tailed Kite and Other Feathered Friends

To mark World Migratory Bird Day, International Paper (IP) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) are celebrating how sustainable forestry provides critical habitat for birds and at the same time, delivers a sustainable, renewable source of fiber for paper products.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Community Rallies Together To Rebuild Playground Destroyed by Fire

Nearly two years after a fire destroyed the playground at Admiral Kidd Park in Long Beach, California, community leaders and partners, including representatives from Marathon Petroleum’s Los Angeles refinery in nearby Wilmington, came together at the site to break ground.

Innovation & Technology

Humans in the Loop: AI & Machine Learning in the Bloomberg Terminal

The Bloomberg Terminal provides access to more than 35 million financial instruments across all asset classes. That’s a lot of data, and to make it useful, AI and machine learning (ML) are playing an increasingly central role in the Terminal’s ongoing evolution.

Innovation & Technology

Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator Announces 2023 Channel Partner Strategic Awards to Catalyze Innovation and Inclusion

N² distributed $970,000 among seven winners to fund innovative and impactful projects that are intended to strengthen and diversify the cleantech and agtech ecosystems.

Environment

Media Advisory: Business Leaders To Call on Congress To Invest in America and Accelerate the Just Transition to an Advanced Clean Economy

C-Suite executives and investors to hold a virtual roundtable and media briefing with key congressional lawmakers at LEAD on a Clean Economy 2030.

Education

Testimony of Lydia Logan, Vice President, Global Education and Workforce Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, IBM

In our experience and research, IBM has found that time and money are two of the greatest barriers for workers as well as businesses looking to create new skills programs.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Applied Materials Recognized as EPA Green Power Top Partner

Applied Materials is excited to be recognized by the U.S. EPA Green Power Partnership program as #16 in the Top 30 Tech & Telecom, #32 in the Fortune 500® Partners List, and #56 in the National Top 100.

Energy

Hot Functional Testing Completed for Vogtle Nuclear Unit 4

Georgia Power today announced the completion of hot functional testing for Unit 4 at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Ga.

Environment

Financing Authentic Climate Action: Banking on Integrity, Innovation, and Impact

Climate action requires integrity, innovation, and, most importantly, financing. This raises two questions: firstly, what mechanisms do we have for companies to fund climate action, especially in the window until 2030? And secondly, how can we ensure that the finance is producing

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bread Financial Included on Newsweek’s Most Trustworthy Companies in America 2023 List

Committed to operating responsibility based on the highest standards of ethics and integrity, Bread Financial today announced that it has been included on Newsweek’s Most Trustworthy Companies in America 2023 list.

Education

The Taco Bell Foundation Serves Up $10 Million In Live Más Scholarships To Educate, Inspire, And Connect Future Leaders

The Taco Bell Foundation is breaking down barriers to education for young people pursuing their passions, in a record-breaking year for applications and awards.

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. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  3. 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...
  4. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  5. Integrated Tools
    Cascale shares updates on its efforts to align the industry on a common language to describe sustainability performance to reduce duplication and...
  6. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  7. Planet
    Minimizing our environmental footprint and being part of the solution to climate change.
  8. Sustainable Operations
    ops-related sustainability content (e.g., new electric equipment, decarb efforts, etc.)
  9. 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...
  10. Research
    Showcase Action Against Hunger’s pioneering role in advancing malnutrition treatment—from early therapeutic formulas (F100, F75) to ongoing innovation...
  11. Drawdown Georgia
    Informed by Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, Drawdown Georgia is the first state-centered effort to crowdsolve...
  12. Community Impact
    Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.
  13. 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...
  14. Collaboration and Partnership
    Cascale shares updates on its strategic partnerships with industry stakeholders geared toward shifting the industry into one that gives back more than...
  15. Advocacy
    Position Action Against Hunger as a leading advocate for policy change and investment—calling for increased public health spending, improved nutrition...