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Sustainable Development Goals

2017 in Review: Making the SDGs a Reality Through Sustainability Reporting

Dec 29, 2017 10:00 AM ET

This year has been challenging for sustainability in many respects, but there have also been exciting developments in the sustainability reporting landscape. In part 2 of this short series, GRI looks back at efforts with the Sustainable Development Goals and developments with the investor community.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful Celebrates a Year of Beautiful Moments

Dec 29, 2017 9:30 AM ET

As 2017 comes to a close, Keep America Beautiful looks back with pride and a sense of accomplishment about many of our favorite "Beautiful Moments" from this year.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Arrow Electronics’ CSR and Sustainability Report Wins Design Award

Dec 29, 2017 9:00 AM ET

Global technology-solutions provider Arrow Electronics was recently awarded top honors in the “Best CSR Report Photography and Design” category of the American Society of Professional Communicators’ annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awards. Arrow won for its 2016 CSR and Sustainability Report.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Tetra Tech’s 2017 Year in Review

Dec 29, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Our 2017 Year in Review video shows Tetra Tech from our employees’ perspectives, as they lead with science to create and implement innovative solutions for water, environmental, energy, infrastructure, resource management, and international development projects. This video also highlights some of the outreach activities through which our employees give back to their local communities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

VIDEO: In the Wake of Natural Disasters, New Trees Bring Communities Hope and Healing

Dec 29, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Trees play a vital role in our everyday lives. They improve the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink. They beautify our streets and shade our children. So when natural disasters strike, the loss of trees is much more than meets the eye.

Health & Healthcare

Advancing Human Health Through Global Collaboration

Dec 29, 2017 7:40 AM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Major League Baseball Players Association Year in Review: Players Make Connections With All Those Who Play and Love the Game

Dec 28, 2017 6:40 PM ET

The Major League Baseball Players Association had quite a year in 2017, on and off the field, as the union began its second 50 years of advancing and protecting players' rights.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Republic Services Driver Gives to Little Boy with Cancer

Dec 28, 2017 3:30 PM ET

Republic Services driver, Rick Neatherlin, based in the Bellevue developed a special relationship with a residential customer, Little Isaac Williams of Sammamish, Wash. The little boy is fighting stage 4 cancer. Neatherlin recruited some additional Republic drivers and supervisors to surprise the little boy for Christmas with several trucks and gifts.

Health & Healthcare

Walking the Talk: How Nestlé USA is Tackling Obesity

Dec 28, 2017 12:15 PM ET

America’s obesity epidemic won’t be solved by any single agency, non-profit, or even a progressive company like Nestlé USA. We understand that no one-size-fits-all solution exists, yet realize we can play an important part in moving the needle on obesity.

Nestlé USA is taking deliberate steps to help tackle this public health crisis with our products, from a relentless focus on reducing sugar, sodium, and saturated fat in our foods and beverages, to educating consumers on making healthier choices. Because our products have such significant reach — 97% of American consumers have a Nestlé product in their home — we believe this reformulation work can help improve health outcomes.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Hurricane Harvey Holiday Meal

Dec 28, 2017 11:00 AM ET

With the aroma of turkey, ham and all the fixings in the air, and music playing in the background, volunteers served a holiday meal for more than 1,000 people affected by Hurricane Harvey at Celebration of Life Church in Baytown, Texas.

“Hurricane Harvey was one of the biggest disasters we’ve seen in recent years,” said Stacy Lamb, U.S. response director of disaster services at Convoy of Hope. “People’s lives have been turned upside down. They are still trying to figure out how to get their homes back in shape and back to normal, and then you have the holiday season.”

When Hormel Foods learned about the holiday meal that was being planned, the company donated over 700 Hormel® Cure 81® hams and its Jennie-O Turkey Store subsidiary donated over 700 turkeys.

Environment

Tier II Reporting Season Is Fast Approaching

Dec 28, 2017 10:50 AM ET

Antea Group describes the EPA’s changes to the Tier II reporting requirements and provides tips to ease the reporting process

Research, Reports & Publications

2017 in Review: The GRI Sustainability Standards One Year On

Dec 28, 2017 10:00 AM ET

This year has been challenging for sustainability in many respects, but there have also been exciting developments in the sustainability reporting landscape. In this short series, we look back at GRI’s efforts, and at what 2018 has in store.

Environment

Flying High With Purpose- Carbon Reduction Challenge Student Blog Series

Dec 28, 2017 10:00 AM ET

Georgia Tech student, Elizabeth Jang describes how various programs, including the Carbon Reduction Challenge have increased her love of the environment.

Diversity & Inclusion

Tupperware Europe Celebrates The "Shero" in Giving Tuesday Campaign

Dec 28, 2017 9:05 AM ET

At Tupperware, we ignite a global community, especially women, to realize their best selves. #GivingTuesday is a global movement encouraging all of us to give. Give our time, our money, our goods and our voice. Tupperware leaders and friends are no strangers to those actions and with over 3 million sales force members worldwide, we see how those actions create confidence that radiates around the world.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Funding, Preparation and Culture Keys to Securing Critical Infrastructure and Systems

Dec 28, 2017 9:00 AM ET

Survey responses from the 2017 Strategic Directions: Natural Gas Industry Report suggest that a root cause of inadequate preparedness for risks may be insufficient funding for physical and cybersecurity initiatives. In fact, results reveal that approximately 65 percent of respondents either don’t know how much money is being earmarked or are allocating less than $1 million annually to fund security programs.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

10th Annual Subaru 'Share the Love®' Event Revs Up for Holiday Campaign Benefiting Make-A-Wish®

Dec 28, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Subaru of America, Inc. recently announced the launch of the 10th annual Share the Love® Event which will, for the seventh year, benefit Make-A-Wish America. Funds raised through the automaker's Share the Love event will help grant more life-changing wishes to children with critical illnesses.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Community Tree Recovery: Restoring Neighborhoods, One Tree at a Time

Dec 28, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Trees play a vital role in our communities. So when natural disasters strike, the loss of trees is much more than meets the eye. The Community Tree Recovery program was created out of the great need for trees in the wake of natural disasters.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Xylem Watermark Volunteers Deploy Nine AquaTowers in Cambodia

Dec 28, 2017 8:00 AM ET

Twenty-three Xylem Watermark volunteers traveled from France, Germany, Sweden, and the US to not only install household solar power and water filtration systems, but to also deploy nine AquaTowers in rural schools within Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces of Cambodia.

Research, Reports & Publications

Caterpillar Bringing Reliable Energy to the Brazilian Amazon

Dec 27, 2017 5:00 PM ET

The nearly half million residents of Roraima, Boa Vista, are separated from the rest of Brazil by the nearly impenetrable Amazon rainforest.

Health & Healthcare

Going Flexitarian?

Dec 27, 2017 4:05 PM ET

It’s no longer simply trendy to say you’re eating less meat. I believe that more people are really taking to heart the message that plant foods offer so many health benefits—and are delicious, too. Americans are moving toward meals that are more plant-based, and they are having meat more occasionally. They’re being flexible about it.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Smithfield Foods Colorado Facility Participates in 32nd Annual Children's Colorado Toy Run

Dec 27, 2017 2:30 PM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Humana Is No. 1 in “JUST 100 List” Health Care Providers Industry Sector

Dec 27, 2017 1:30 PM ET

Humana has again been named one of America’s most JUST companies, ranking No. 1 in the Health Care Providers industry on JUST Capital and Forbes magazine’s JUST 100 List.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Building Sustainable and Inclusive Economies in Indo-Pacific

Dec 27, 2017 1:00 PM ET

Working together with policymakers, regulators and enterprises, GRI raises awareness and enhances reporting capacity on key sustainability issues in the Indo-Pacific region. GRI’s programs with the Australian government contribute to building a more inclusive economy that ultimately creates a higher quality of life.

Media & Communications

Carnival Corporation's AIDA New Year’s Raffle: Donations for SOS Children’s Villages, Mercy Ships and Fly & Help

Dec 27, 2017 10:30 AM ET

The annual New Year’s Raffle is taking place aboard all of the ships in the AIDA Cruises fleet. The proceeds from the raffle will once again go to a number of different projects.

For more than ten years, AIDA Cruises has supported the work of SOS Children’s Village with its worldwide projects for disadvantaged children. Thanks to our guests, it has been possible to support various SOS Children’s Village measures in Germany, Africa and the Philippines with donations totaling over one million euros.

Environment

Peru’s Integrated Approach to Nationally Determined Contributions Can Boost Agroforestry’s Role in Fighting Climate Change

Dec 27, 2017 9:20 AM ET

Peru’s Minister of Environment, Elsa Galarza, at a side event co-hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) at this year’s United Nations’ climate talks in Bonn, Germany, presented the country’s innovative, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approach to its NDCs supported by a Framework Law on Climate Change that is pending approval.