Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

What Is the Gig Economy and How Will It Change the Future of Work?

The Covid-19 pandemic certainly has had a profound impact on both private and work life for many of us.

Environment

Musim Mas Is Taking a Good Hard Look at Its Conservation Efforts

In its latest drive for biodiversity conservation, Musim Mas has partnered with South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership.

Diversity & Inclusion

Podcast: Learn What Changes Medtronic Is Making to Build Diversity, Improve Equity & Encourage Inclusion

In the first episode of season two of MedtronicTalks, Sally Saba, MD, the company’s first chief inclusion & diversity officer, demonstrates how exclusion can impact an individual and slow an organization.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

KeyBank Foundation Donates $150,000 to Support Empower 100 Expansion of Move to PROSPER

KeyBank and Move to PROSPER (MTP) announce an impact grant from KeyBank Foundation of $150,000 to support MTP’s Empower 100 project, an initiative that improves outcomes for single mothers with low-wage jobs, and their children.

Environment

Three Takeaways From GreenBiz22

It is both a thrilling and concerning time to be alive on this planet. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) continues to alert the public, policymakers, and business leaders that we are at a critical crossroad for our survival

Diversity & Inclusion

Nye Jones: A Changemaker Leading DE&I Initiatives With Empathy And Passion

When you measure success as helping others overcome and reach their full potential, it results in better outcomes for all involved.

Innovation & Technology

Bristol University Gets Funding for the World-first Construction Facility

The University of Bristol has received £12m for a state-of-the-art facility that will improve construction by reducing the environmental costs of high-value infrastructure projects.

Innovation & Technology

Introducing the 10 Founding Principles of the Kind City of the Future

Our goal was to create a set of crowd-sourced principles—the foundation for a more inclusive, empathetic, and empowering city. Ten big ideas, rooted in kindness, to propel us towards a better future.

Energy

Launching Your Energy Management Action Plan: An 8-step Roadmap

Corporations have the opportunity to meet the urgency of global climate health with measures that will both reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint. Learn more about how to implement an energy management action plan.

Diversity & Inclusion

Breaking the Bias This International Women's Day

We’re honoring many of our partners, including CARE, TIME, LISC, and Seneca Women, whose meaningful actions work to #BreaktheBias—not only on International Women’s Day, but every day.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

New Insights Into Chinese ESG

We were recently granted the opportunity to include data on hundreds of companies from one of the leading Chinese ESG analysis firms—SynTao Green Finance (STGF).

Responsible Production & Consumption

How Are We Minimizing the Environmental Footprint of Our Products?

From supporting the rise of electric vehicles, to enabling buildings that maximize use of renewables, or enhancing digital intelligence for more efficient power grids, our systems help our customers lower their costs and their carbon footprint.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Griffith Foods | How We Collaborate to Blend Care and Creativity to Nourish the World

In just a few decades, we as an industry will be responsible for feeding an unprecedented 10 billion people – an impossible task to accomplish alone.

Health & Healthcare

Why Improving Health Literacy Is Important

Improving health literacy – defined as a person’s ability to find, understand and use information and services to make health-related decisions for themselves and others – continues to be an important part of helping address the pandemic.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Here’s Why DuPont Performance Building Solutions and Corian® Design is Betting on Sustainability

We will partner with our customers and the industry to deliver innovative construction solutions that drive total carbon of buildings to zero, increase circularity of materials, and utilize safer chemistries, to realize our shared vision.

Health & Healthcare

How a Team of Boston Scientific Employees Is Supporting South Asian Communities

When the South Asians in Leadership (SAIL) employee resource group (ERG) at Boston Scientific launched its health camp initiative in India, their purpose was simple: give back to communities in need.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named One of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2022

We are honored to have been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022.

Diversity & Inclusion

Veteran SCE 'Groundman' Proves Women Are Up to the Task

Twenty-five years ago, Belinda Vasquez was a single parent attending Mt. San Antonio College, facing an uncertain financial future. She learned that Southern California Edison was recruiting women to work as entry-level meter readers.

Environment

How Georgia-Pacific Supports Green Spaces

Georgia-Pacific is committed to bringing people together by providing access to public spaces.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investors Go Salmon Fishing With Climate Scientists

The global climate is an enormously complex system, and as climate change intensifies, damaging climate events are cascading from one another.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist Foundation Partners With Connect Humanity To Advance the Internet Connectivity Space and Establish Digital Equity

Truist Foundation announced it has awarded a $10 million grant to Connect Humanity, a nonprofit focused on advancing digital equity among historically marginalized communities.

Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: The Economic Opportunities and Challenges of the Net-Zero Transition

McKinsey released a report exploring what a successful net-zero transition would entail. Decarbonizing our economies is worthwhile, but challenges are inherent in making the shift. A low-emission supply of energy must match shifts in demand.

Diversity & Inclusion

Inspiring the Next-Generation of Women Leaders: Year Three of Applied's Generation Girl Initiative

Applied Materials is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion where employees are valued and supported. Through Generation Girl we look to the future of tech and our role in developing the next generation of Black and Latinx women leaders.

Research, Reports & Publications

La TD établit des cibles provisoires d'émissions financées d'ici 2030 pour des secteurs à émissions élevées, à savoir ceux de l'énergie et de la production d'électricité

La TD établit des cibles provisoires d’émissions financées d’ici 2030 pour des secteurs à émissions élevées, à savoir ceux de l’énergie et de la production d’électricité.

Environment

TD Sets 2030 Interim Financed Emissions Targets for High-emitting Sectors: Energy and Power Generation

TD sets 2030 interim financed emissions targets for high-emitting sectors: Energy and Power Generation. Scope 3 targets represent a significant step forward as TD progresses on its path to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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