Sustainable Investing at Northern Trust

While sustainability factors may be broad in nature, we focus on certain key issues and approaches in our Core Aspects investment framework.

China's Internet Data Power Usage to Surge Through 2023: Study

The sector’s CO2 emissions could reach 163 million tonnes by the end of 2023, but that could be cut by 16 million tonnes if its renewable intake is increased from 23% to 30%.

How IBM Is Investing in STEM Education and Skills

IBM's initiatives are intended to help address challenges posed by AI and intelligent automation by promoting STEM skills to kids, supporting new collar skills education, and collaborating to create new paths into the tech workforce.

Increased Action Needed on Human Rights Reporting

GRI calls on government to do more to help businesses understand, mitigate and improve their human rights impacts – by strengthening transparency and reporting requirements.

Caterpillar's Circular Economy

Caterpillar's remanufacturing and rebuild businesses provide customers with immediate cost savings, help extend life cycles and use materials more efficiently.

Caterpillar's Focus on Customer Safety

Caterpillar’s safety culture extends beyond internal operations to include promoting the safe operation of products in the field, as well as the safety and health of all individuals who come into contact with Cat® products.

The Arbor Day Foundation's Time for Trees Initiative

Trees provide the very necessities of life itself. They clean our air, protect our drinking water, create healthy communities, and feed the human soul. But these life necessities are threatened around the globe.

A Message From the Arbor Day Foundation Chair of the Board of Trustees

Ten years of service on the board of trustees has taught me that, just like trees, no two years at such a dynamic organization as the Arbor Day Foundation are ever the same.

The Arbor Day Foundation Is Pleased to Share Its 2019 Annual Report

We’re in our fifth decade of planting and caring for trees and forests across the U.S. and around the globe. We plant them with great purpose. Because the beneficiaries of those trees and forests are people.

Schneider Electric's Sustainability Progress and 2020 Goals: Climate, Circular Economy, Health & Equity, Ethics, and Development

The 2018 – 2020 Schneider Sustainability Impact (SSI) is a collection of the organization’s sustainability goals, grouped under five megatrends. Schneider Electric uses the SSI to share and measure progress toward their sustainability goals.

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