Managing Director of WBCSD’s Natural Capital Area, Maria Mendiluce, speaks to We Mean Business about the Paris Agreement and what companies are doing to take action.
Sustainability in all its forms — business, social and environmental — is central to Ingersoll Rand’s strategy. Just as it has for the past 146 years, Ingersoll Rand continues to build a more sustainable and thriving enterprise. It is leading the way to long-term value creation and positive societal impact within its industries, and building a legacy for the next century and beyond.
A new administration has vowed to roll back numerous environmental regulations aimed at reducing the nation’s carbon footprint. Does this give power providers new impetus to rewrite their long-term planning? This year’s Strategic Directions: Electric Industry Report finds this isn’t necessarily the case.
Product stewardship covers the full lifespan of our equipment – from the supply chain to the customer’s job site to remanufacturing. This means taking active steps to reduce potential environmental, health and safety impacts, as well as optimizing operational quality and efficiency throughout the life of the product.
Brenda Colatrella, executive director of Corporate Responsibility at Merck, has coauthored a paper on developing health-focused public-private partnerships that will support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and are based on governments’ sustainable development pl
Asia is moving aggressively towards greater corporate transparency around important sustainability topics. In this blog, GRI's Chief Executive Tim Mohin analyzes the main drivers behind this trend, and presents aspirations for the future.
At Aflac, we try to live by this very simple rule: Everyone has the power to do good. We have unveiled Aflac’s 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, where we share with you how Aflac strives to be a good neighbor with good people leading the way.
GRI recently launched a new online platform for people to test and demonstrate their knowledge on the GRI Standards, launched in October 2016. We asked Tim Lo, the first successful GRI Standards Exam taker, about his exam experience and how it adds value to his career as a sustainability professional.
A company's workforce is the lifeblood of the business, meaning that disclosing HR information will provide investors and other stakeholders with critical insights on the health of the company. Excellence in these areas often translates to increased return on investment, as leaders in corporate responsibility know well.
India has witnessed a year-on-year growth in total CSR spending. More consistent and comparable reporting will help stimulate accountability and measure the actual impact of CSR spending on the Indian economy, environment and society. In addition to building reporting capacity and quality, GRI South Asia is also gathering business momentum to align corporate reporting in the region with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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