ESG News from Leading Brands

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Media & Communications

Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index 2021

See key findings from the fifth edition of the Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index: Insights from Global Supply Chain Ratings, which examines the sustainability performance of more than 46,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis during the period 2016-2020. All in a bite-sized infographic format.

Environment

First European Improved Forest Management Carbon Offset Project Achieves Independent Verification

Global Forest Support GmbH (GFS) and SCS Global Services (SCS) announced the completion of validation and verification of the first European Improved Forest Management (IFM) carbon project under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)

Environment

Tetra Tech's Leslie Turner Discusses Providing Municipalities With Safe Drinking Water

Leslie Turner has more than 20 years of experience in planning, permitting, design, project management, and construction management for water programs throughout the Southeastern United States.

Environment

Trane Technologies Healthy Spaces Podcast Season 2 Episode 2: Healthy Workspaces for Now. And Tomorrow.

In this episode of Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies, Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design, and Dr. Alberto Acosta, executive director of Medical Services at Trane Technologies, share some key lessons learned - and a way forward for employers and employees.

Green Infrastructure

River Trails School District 26 Awarded for Outstanding Energy Efficiency Commitments

Trane® - by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator - has recognized the River Trails School District 26 in Mount Prospect, Illinois

Diversity & Inclusion

New Holland Agriculture Celebrates International Rural Women's Day

CNH Industrial brand New Holland Agriculture is celebrating the United Nation’s International Day of Rural Women.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named to Forbes World's Best Employer List

We are proud to announce that Illumina has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Employer List for the first time.

Environment

Educating Girls: The Overlooked Solution to Climate Change

Girl Rising partners with organizations like HP and 1Million Teachers to work with community-based educators and religious leaders to increase the number and capacity of home-grown educators to deliver learning to girls anywhere in the world.

Environment

WSP USA Joins Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment to Net Zero

In recognition of Climate Action Day, WSP has furthered its commitment to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, embodied carbon in its structural system projects by 2050 as a signatory to the Structural Engineering Institute SE 2050 Commitment Program.

Diversity & Inclusion

When Opportunity Knocks

Miguel Cardenas was happily working & living in Mexico with his family in 2016, when some of his colleagues made the move to Kohler Co. Even though Miguel was happy with his employer of 13 years, he was soon persuaded to also take a chance on Kohler.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Qualcomm Provides Emergency Call Device To Promote Public Safety to the Gangnam Support Center for Family With Disability

Gangnam Support Center for Family with Disability is distributing an emergency device embedded with a Qualcomm Technologies solution for the safety of the disabled in the local community.

Health & Healthcare

Herbalife Nutrition Honors Partners Who Are Helping End World Hunger Through “Nutrition for Zero Hunger” Initiative

Herbalife Nutrition and the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF), are honoring their nonprofit partners and the impacts they have made together in fighting food insecurity during the second year of its Nutrition for Zero Hunger initiative.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Update on Land Betterment's LBX Positive Cryptocurrency

Land Betterment, an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining and industrial sites to create sustainable community development, shares updates on its Land Betterment Exchange (LBX) Cryptocurrency.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Dial® Gives Back to Teachers by Partnering with DonorsChoose

In addition to soap donations, this collaboration consists of a 1:1 match commitment (up to $100,000), where Dial® will double the impact of a consumer’s donation to projects on DonorsChoose through a dollar-for-dollar matching donation by Dial.

Social Impact & Volunteering

IP's Mansfield Team Addresses Clothing Insecurity at Local Elementary School

After learning about school uniform insecurity at the Mansfield Elementary School, Industrial Packaging’s Mansfield, Louisiana, Mill team donated 466 articles of clothing to local students in grades in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade.

Innovation & Technology

The Tools to End Technology Abuse

NortonLifeLock provides financial resources to the National Network to End Domestic Violence in support of its Safety Net Program. The program addresses the intersection between tech & safety, helping to create safer spaces for survivors.

Health & Healthcare

FDA Authorizes Quest Diagnostics' COVID-19 Collection Materials for Emergency Use

Quest Diagnostics has received FDA emergency use authorization for its Collection kit for COVID-19, which are intended to be used as part of a program to collect anterior nares (nasal) swab specimens for molecular testing at the laboratory.

Diversity & Inclusion

Chef Aarón Sánchez: “Our Time Has Come”

Aarón Sánchez joined T‑Mobile’s special Hispanic Heritage Month edition of its Talking with Trailblazers series, dishing about his cooking career, preserving his family legacy through food and planting seeds for the next generation of Latino chefs.

Health & Healthcare

Celebrating Global Handwashing Day

Providing more than one billion liters of clean water each year is another example of P&G’s acts of good as we Lead with Love supporting our communities, fostering equality and inclusion, and protecting the planet we call home.

Environment

Hundreds of U.S. Companies Want to See Congress Act on Climate to Build a Clean, Resilient Economy.

A growing number of businesses are taking action to build a cleaner, more sustainable economy. These businesses recognize that investing in clean energy and climate solutions is not only good for the planet, it’s good for business.

Events, Media & Communications

Second Global Inclusive Growth Summit Launches New Programs to Fight Increasing Inequality

Top business, government and civil society leaders gathered October 14, 2021 for the second Global Inclusive Growth Summit, co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.

Environment

Global Water Challenge and AMREF Health Africa Launch Women and Girl-Focused Impact Partnership

Global Water Challenge (GWC), with Amref Health Africa, launched a high impact community water partnership with support from The Starbucks Foundation to empower women and girls in coffee- and tea-growing communities of Kenya and Tanzania.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GoDaddy's Employee Resource Groups Recognize the Importance of Inclusion

GoDaddy is acknowledging National Disability Employment Awareness Month and National Hispanic Heritage Month by highlighting two important Employee Resource Groups.

Environment

Kimberly-Clark Receives Climate Leadership Award for Progress in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Kimberly-Clark announced that it received a 2021 Climate Leadership Award for ‘Goal Achievement in Greenhouse Gas Management’ from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry.

Innovation & Technology

Cummins Announces New Engine for Customers on Path to Zero Emissions

Global power leader Cummins is expanding its product line for customers wanting to reduce greenhouse gases. When using renewable natural gas, the company’s new 15-liter natural gas engine can reach net GHG emissions at or below zero.

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