Environment

From now until the end of November, college football is scoring big by tackling stadium and tailgating waste through the national GameDay Recycling Challenge, where teams and their fans compete to see who can reduce and recycle the most GameDay items, such as glass bottles and food packaging waste.

Costa Cruises, Europe’s number one cruise company, has presented its “Sustainability Report - Results for 2014 and Outlook for the Future” and illustrated its corporate social responsibility plan for the coming years.

Channel 2 WSB-TV and The Trust for Public Land are recognizing volunteers who are creating, preserving or enhancing shared outdoor spaces. Tom Branch, Julie Burroughs and Alan Toney have been selected as finalists for Atlanta’s 2015 Cox Conserves Heroes program, and the public is being asked to vote now through October 26 at wsbtv.com/coxconservesheroes.

The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has given a stark warning that climate change poses a huge risk to global stability. At a meeting of leading insurers at Lloyd's of London, Carney said that climate change will lead to financial crises and falling living standards unless the world’s leading countries do more to ensure that their companies come clean about their current and future carbon emissions.

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) has been awarded the Pulp and Paper International (PPI) 2015 Environmental Strategy of the Year Award for The Paper Trail®, its newly revitalized digital transparency tool. When using the tool, customers are able to learn where their paper comes from and track the gate-to-gate environmental impact of their paper purchase across five categories: fiber, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water, renewable energy, and waste.

Recycle-Bowl is Keep America Beautiful’s fun and friendly national recycling competition, focusing on promoting recycling in K-12 schools. Registration for this year’s Recycle-Bowl competition closes on Oct. 13. The competition takes place from Oct. 19 to Nov. 15.

This webinar will walk you through key data and critical implications for business wishing to engage Millennials in CSR including expectations, perception of impact, business approaches and preferred types of engagement. The session will also explore unique drivers and priorities of the Young Millennial, Mature Millennial, Millennial Female, Millennial Male, Affluent Millennial and Millennial Mom.