University of Michigan: Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability
University of Michigan: Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability
Exploring Best Practices for Human Rights Issues – An Erb Institute/WEC roundtable
The field of sustainability has evolved in recent years to include human rights issues. Consumers and investors have made these issues a priority, so businesses are responding. As they do, collaboration is critical.

The field of sustainability began with environmental issues, which brought about standards and regulations that companies must follow. But human rights issues don’t yet have the same kind of established standards. “It’s still a relatively new dialogue and language for the business community,” said Theresa Loar, an independent consultant who focuses on human rights in business. “While there are excellent UN guiding principles, it’s not the same thing as your government setting certain requirements and standards.”

Events
21st Century Fox
21st Century Fox
Nat Geo WILD Launches Eighth Annual Big Cat Week With Pushes to Mark the Cheetah as Endangered
On December 10, Nat Geo WILD kicked off its eighth annual Big Cat Week with a week-long programming lineup of stunning and touching specials documenting the lives and plights of big cats around the world. Big Cat Week is an extension of the Big Cats Initiative (BCI), a long-term commitment from National Geographic Society to protect and tell the stories of the planet’s fiercest felines—lions, tigers, jaguars, panthers, leopards and more.
Environment
Ethical Performance
Ethical Performance
Do You Have the Right Staffing Levels to Manage Your Companies EHS & Sustainability Risks?
If you answered yes to any of these questions or would just like some hard, reliable facts and data about EHS&S staffing, structure and budgets, then the National Association of Environmental Management’s (NAEM) recently published report based on data from more than 190 companies across industry sectors is perfect for you.
Research & Reports
Barclays
Barclays
Sustainable Growth: Barclays Launches New Range of Green Finance Products
Barclays has become the first UK bank to launch a range of green finance products to help its corporate clients fund low-carbon projects and investments.
Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment
Northern Trust
Northern Trust
Rebels with a Cause: Promoting Goodness
Mamadou-Abou Sarr was a long jumper and triple jumper as a teen in the suburbs of Paris—good enough to compete on a national level at 14. He gave up the sport because his father insisted he focus on his studies, but in many ways the eldest son of immigrants to France from Senegal and Benin hasn’t stopped jumping.
Awards & Rankings
Scotiabank
Scotiabank
Solutions for All: How One Canadian Bank is Developing Technology to Drive Accessibility
As Vice President of Design, Digital Banking, at Scotiabank, Pamela Hilborn is tasked with developing unique technology solutions that can meet the needs of the Bank’s diverse customer base — including those with disabilities.
Inclusion & Opportunity
IBM
IBM
Forbes and JUST Capital Rank IBM No. 5 in America's Top Corporate Citizens
"No one sector – whether government, business, academia or civil society – can tackle today’s challenges all by itself. All sectors must work together, and all must raise their game." On THINK Blog, IBM Foundation President Jen Crozier writes about IBM's longstanding commitments to collaboration, diversity, inclusion and service - commitments shaped by IBM's enduring values, and recognized today by IBM's Number 5 ranking among America's Top Corporate Citizens by Forbes and JUST Capital.
Awards & Rankings
Tetra Tech
Tetra Tech
Helping Bring Safe Drinking Water to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Tetra Tech created its 50th Anniversary Global Clean Water Fund to honor its history of leadership in the water sector and commitment to Engineers Without Borders’ life-changing work. These Tetra Tech-provided grants helped bring clean, safe water to communities in poor and underserved communities in remote areas around the world.
Philanthropy
Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies
Dell, General Motors Convene the 'NextWave' of Marine Plastics Management
Dell, General Motors, Trek Bicycle, Interface, Van de Sant, Humanscale, Bureo and Herman Miller are partnering to form NextWave, an initiative to develop a commercial-scale ocean-bound plastics supply chain. The industry groups are supported by The Lonely Whale and U.N. Environment.
Environment
GRI
GRI
Tackling Modern Slavery With Transparency: GRI to Support the Reporting Community
GRI is inviting leading reporting companies to join a Corporate Leadership Group (CLG) on Modern Slavery to engage in cutting edge dialogue about the challenges and opportunities of transparency on this urgent sustainability issue in consultation with diverse stakeholders such as investors, media, human rights and legal experts and governments.
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

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