Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bacardi Limited Announces 5th Annual Good Spirited Awards for Employee-Led Global Environmental Sustainability Programs

In continuation of its ongoing sustainability efforts, Bacardi Limited is proud to announce the recipients of its 5th annual Bacardi Limited Good Spirited Awards. Launched in 2014, the awards recognize the employees, teams and facilities across the company’s’s global network that developed the best environmental programs across five different categories: Production Facility, Brand Innovation, Sustainable Office, Green Champions or Partnerships.

Research, Reports & Publications

Canary Wharf Group Defines the City of the Future in Latest Sustainability Report

Canary Wharf Group’s vision is to inspire positive impact by creating places that are healthy, thriving, sustainable and future-ready, and in its latest report, Making Sustainability Real it defines the City of the Future as Circular, Positive, Innovative, Responsible and Measured. The Group also calls for greater collaboration, as it acknowledges the need for urgency to tackle the global challenges facing all of us.

Innovation & Technology

VMware Unveils Carbon Avoidance Meter to Optimize Data Center Energy Usage

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, has announced the Carbon Avoidance Meter (CAM), to provide data center operators with near-real time “carbon scores” – determined from the level of one’s carbon footprint and energy usage – and recommendations for reducing this footprint. The CAM bases carbon scores on telemetry data sent to VMware through VMware Skyline, a proactive support technology, in order to encourage energy reduction and inspire sustainable best practices for the industry.

Sustainable Development Goals

What Science-Based Targets Mean for the Sports and Entertainment Sector

Today, the sports and entertainment industry has become an even more powerful voice on climate change and sustainability. This shift aligns well with the rest of the global business community, which has coalesced around a single, widely-accepted source for guidance on global climate issues, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Perhaps even more importantly, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide businesses with a universal language for focusing public conversations on the world’s most important challenges.

Environment

CEOs of Major Companies Call on U.S. Congress to Set a National Price on Carbon

CEOs and other representatives of more than 75 U.S. businesses and trade associations, with combined market valuations of nearly $2.5 trillion, call for federal climate action including carbon pricing.

Environment

Clock Is Ticking on a Biodiversity Catastrophe

Role of sustainability reporting and corporate transparency in averting a biodiversity catastrophe.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Ecocentricity Blog: Queen Daenerys Targaryen the Wasteful

In a nutshell, the circular economy is about keeping materials where they have the greatest value in the flow of commerce, thereby limiting extraction of virgin materials and disposal of items in waste streams.

Events, Media & Communications

Innovation Expo at SB’19 Detroit Sets Stage for Global Collaboration

Sustainable Brands recently revealed the full programming and schedule for the Innovation Expo at SB’19 Detroit, running June 3-6 at Cobo Center in downtown Detroit. The Innovation Expo will be the focal point for networking, collaboration and co-creation at the conference. Nearly 2,500 brand, marketing and sustainability professionals will be in attendance with open eyes towards the breakthrough ideas and technological advances shaping the future of sustainable innovation.

Environment

Roger Gottlieb: Philosophy and the Environment

When you see someone littering a plastic bag into the street how do you judge that person? What about the person who stands by watching the litterer and does nothing?

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

LG Commits to Carbon Neutrality by 2030

LG Electronics Inc. has launched its aggressive global Zero Carbon 2030 initiative, committing to achieving net-zero carbon emissions from its worldwide operations within 12 years. In line with its larger sustainable business strategy, LG plans to reduce carbon emissions from its global operations by 50 percent (compared to a 2017 baseline) by implementing various carbon reduction and renewable energy initiatives. This effort will help bring LG closer to reaching its ultimate goal of carbon neutrality, achieving a net-zero carbon emissions footprint by balancing carbon emissions with carbon removal.

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Halo Awards

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Key Supports Affordable Housing

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FedEx | Delivering for Good

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The Ray

News and information about The Ray, Georgia's restorative, sustainable highway of the future.

Sustainability by Antea Group

At Antea Group, we believe the best sustainability programs integrate sustainability into core business practices, we identify and act on relevant...

AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism

AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...