ESG News from Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest environmental, social and governance news from companies embracing the triple bottom line, shared via 3BL's distribution platform.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

AB: Six Metrics Light the Path to Sustainability for Emerging-Market Sovereigns

Just six metrics can effectively assess sovereign issuers’ sustainability and provide guidance for both issuers and investors.

Diversity & Inclusion

Gilead’s Legal Team Achieves Rigorous Diversity Certification

When Shirley Cantin was a law student, about half of her classmates were women. Yet when she joined a corporate law firm, Shirley noticed that most of its leaders were white men. And when she left a decade later, little progress on the leadership team’s diversity had been made.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Kimberly-Clark’s Lisa Morden Featured in Special Report on the Green Transition

Lisa Morden, Vice President of Safety, Sustainability and Occupational Health, was recently featured in the annual Pillars of the Green Transition: COP28 Edition report.

Sustainable Development Goals

What Makes a Credible Living Wage Claim?

New guidance from ISEAL sets out how companies and sustainability systems can credibly communicate about their work on living wages.

Environment

AccountAbility Joins With Global Commons Alliance and UN Climate Champions Team to Launch Navigator Addressing Nature and Climate Action

AccountAbility joins with the Global Commons Alliance Accountability Accelerator and the High-Level Champions to unveil the Nature and Climate Action Resource Navigator.

Environment

COP28 Draft Agreement Falls Fatally Short of the Clarity and Ambition the Climate and Economy Demand: A Phase Out of Fossil Fuels

The latest COP28 draft agreement published today falls fatally short of what the climate and economy demand: a phase out of unabated fossil fuels.

Sustainable Development Goals

People + Planet Leadership: Climate Change Demands Healthier and More Sustainable Buildings

“There is no planetary health and no human health separately. Both of them go hand-in-hand. We know the balance between them, and we understand that outcomes that are delivered by one benefit the other and vice versa.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies Named to S&P Dow Jones Sustainability World and North American Indices

Trane Technologies has been named to the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the third consecutive year and the North America Index for the thirteenth consecutive year

Health & Healthcare

Baker Tilly’s Healthy Outcomes Podcast: Empowering Healthcare Leaders With Data-Driven Decision Making

On this episode of Healthy Outcomes, our host Mark Ross interviews Baker Tilly’s Heather Herc, director, and Brad Gummig, senior manager.

Health & Healthcare

Patient Advocacy and Community Engagement at Alkermes

We have developed and now manufacture and commercialize proprietary medicines for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder - disease areas with vulnerable patient populations who are often treated in public health.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Mary Kay and the Power of Women and Trees – Female-Produced and Directed Documentary Tells One Woman’s Story of Environmental and Economic Empowerment

Mary Kay has supported conservation initiatives in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Arbor Day Foundation (ADF) to drive impact in critical areas such as reforestation.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Entergy Arkansas Awards $110,000 Grants to Statewide Nonprofits

Harvey Couch first electrified The Natural State with Arkansas Power & Light by turning sawdust into electricity in 1913, and the company that would become Entergy Arkansas has been lighting up communities in innovative ways ever since.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Quality in Action: Recognizing Quality Month 2023 with HARMAN

Every November during World Quality Month, HARMAN employees come together to reaffirm our commitment to customer satisfaction and focus on the quality of our products, services, and business operations.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

T-Mobile Responds to Devastating Tennessee Tornadoes

Our hearts are with those impacted by a series of tornadoes that wreaked havoc in middle Tennessee Saturday night, causing widespread destruction in Montgomery, Sumner and Davidson counties.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Motorola Solutions Achieves Record-Breaking Impact Through Fifth Annual Global Months of Service

For five remarkable years, Motorola Solutions employees have come together in the spirit of giving back to communities where they live and work – with a competitive twist – during Global Months of Service (GMOS), led by the Motorola Solutions Foundation.

Environment

EPA Issues Final Rule for Oil and Natural Gas Operations for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions

On December 2, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations.

Education

AMD Celebrates National STEM Day With Middle School Students

AMD recently partnered with professional soccer team Austin FC, EK Fluid Gaming and two educational organizations to welcome more than 100 students and educational staff for a hands-on day of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning

Research, Reports & Publications

Climate Horizon: Opportunities for a Greener World in the Middle East

The following explores two future perspectives for the decarbonization of the Middle East by 2060, scientifically accounting for multiple uncertain variables which directly alter the region’s future energy demand.

Sustainable Development Goals

Griffith Foods Commits to Transformative Call to Action for Sustainable Food Systems at UNFCCC COP28

Griffith Foods, a global food development partner, proudly announces its participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP28), taking place in Dubai, UAE, from November 30th to December 12th.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Awards $53,000 Grant to RODI Italian

For two weeks in November, Fifth Third employees across greater Cincinnati and the Bank’s footprint showed their love for local small businesses by entering them in a sweepstakes to win a $53,000 grant. The Bank is pleased to announce one of the winners is RODI Italian.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Maximus Staff Show Their Generosity by Supporting the Catherine McAuley Center

The EAOS staff volunteered to complete a community service project to benefit the Catherine McAuley Center, a Maximus Foundation grantee partner.

Green Infrastructure

The Future – It’s Electric! But Are We Ready?

President Biden has set an ambitious goal of 100 percent clean electricity by 2035, but is that achievable? It is the challenge of our generation and one of the most exciting business opportunities ever presented to the United States.

Innovation & Technology

What Is the US Cyber Trust Mark?

In July 2023, the White House introduced U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity certification and labeling program that intends to elevate the level of cybersecurity across connected devices in the United States.

Health & Healthcare

‘It’s the Nearness That You Are There For:’ Primary Healthcare Clinic Offers a Path Forward

When the clinic first opened – built with funds provided by Viatris in partnership with Rhiza Babuyile, a local nonprofit – Sister Thandi cried.

Health & Healthcare

New Report From Quest Diagnostics Unveils Priorities for Community Health Centers

More than 1,100 Community Health Centers – also called Federally Qualified Health Centers, or FQHC – today provide affordable, comprehensive care to over 30 million children and adults across the United States.

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