Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI Urges Businesses to go Beyond Carbon as World Leaders Sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement in New York

The Paris Climate Change Agreement opens for signatures today during a high-level ceremony convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York. All Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) are invited to sign the agreement. GRI’s Chief Executive, Michael Meehan is attending, together with some 60 world leaders, among them, President Francois Hollande of France, and China’s President, Xi Jinping. The attendance by China is seen as a major step, with the country dubbed as the world’s manufacturing powerhouse and largest carbon emitter. Over 150 countries will be present at the event.

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Cindy Ortega: Earth Day is a Time to Reflect

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To Empower Black Communities, Power Our Country with Clean Energy

Why do African American families use less energy than white households, but pay more for it—literally and figuratively? It’s true. The average African American family emits 20% less carbon dioxide than the average white household does, yet we are more susceptible to increases in energy and water costs that result from climate change.

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Reveal: Transforming Building Transparency

Reveal, a transparency label by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), aims to make known the energy use of commercial buildings for the purpose of broadening people’s access to information in the corporate sphere.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ingersoll Rand Ranks on Corporate Responsibility Magazine 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for Third Consecutive Year

Ingersoll Rand (NYSE: IR), a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, is named to Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine’s annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for the third consecutive year.

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VIDEO: With SunPower Every Day is Earth Day

Our company exists to help change the way our world is powered and leave the planet better off for future generations. That’s our purpose. It’s why we’re here.

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Why Earth Day 2016 is a Tipping Point for Our Clean Energy Future

On Earth Day numerous heads of state and other dignitaries will come together in New York for a signing ceremony for the historic COP21 agreement, formally turning the page to implementation.

Environment

Is Data the Key to Profitable Plastics Recycling?

This month Antea Group Senior Consultant Pamela Gordon co-led an ISRI workshop on measuring and maximizing the business and environmental benefits of plastics recycling. The workshop was attended by numerous metals recyclers who shared that they view themselves as being at the beginning of a learning curve, and need direction and coaching to ramp up their plastics-recycling efforts efficiency and profitably

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Earth Week Guest Post: Nature Provides Lessons on How to Collaborate for a Sustainable Future

The effects of human-caused climate change are both predictable and unknown, but we do know that healthy ecosystems are more resilient to these effects. As individuals, we have an ethical responsibility to incrementally shift our behaviors to support ecosystem health; however, no one person can do this alone.

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