AkzoNobel and SOS Children's Villages Partner to Fight Youth Unemployment With the Power of Paint

AkzoNobel and SOS Children's Villages are joining forces to use education and renovation to drive a positive impact on youth unemployment. The partnership aims to reach the young people of SOS Children's Villages with AkzoNobel's "Let's Colour" program and professional training through AkzoNobel's painter academies around the world.

First-Ever CEO Investor Forum Bolsters Long-Term Discussion

Leading cross-sector CEOs and executives came together to publicly share first-ever long-term business plans to an audience of nearly 200 major investors representing more than $20 trillion in assets under management at the inaugural CECP CEO Investor Forum held February 27 in New York City.

As Seen on The Guardian: UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Help Businesses Make an Impact

The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need governments, businesses and civil society to work in tandem to battle poverty, hunger, poor health and education, climate change, inequality, and sustainability. Businesses especially have provided much-needed resources to move the needle since the goals were ratified in early 2015.

As Seen on The Guardian: Ships, Planes and Automobiles Take a Load Off to Go Green

People aren’t the only ones with weight loss goals for the new year. To increase fuel efficiency and minimize their carbon footprints, transportation companies are making an effort to shed pounds, too.

Clean Water for Life

Pharmagen Healthcare Limited has joined the Business Call to Action (BctA) with a pledge to provide 112,000 urban poor people in Pakistan with affordable purified drinking water each day by 2020 – reducing the incidence of water-borne diseases among the country’s most vulnerable populations.

Research in 3-D: Lockheed Martin Teams Up with Brigham Young University on Virtual Reality Engineering Grant

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Brigham Young University (BYU) are collaborating to apply gaming technology for engineering purposes, allowing users to interact with, record and share engineering designs in virtual reality.

In India's Burgeoning 'Corn Bowl,' Technology and Optimism Are All the Rage

Training farmers in advanced agronomic practices is one aspect of the program Cargill and TechnoServe launched last year to strengthen communities in India. By helping them grow more high-quality crops, the program aims to raise the livelihoods of 5,000 rural farming households over four years.

Supply Chain Reporting is Really a Conversation

With all this talk about big data, supply chain optimization and artificial intelligence, it sometimes seems like we’re passing the torch to the machines once and for all.

The Wendy's Company Enhances and Expands Supplier Code of Conduct

The Wendy's Company today announced the expansion of its Supplier Code of Conduct which now includes all U.S. and Canadian contracts managed by Quality Supply Chain Cooperative (QSCC) and suppliers that provide a significant stream of goods or services to The Wendy’s Company on an annual basis. The Code also includes new requirements for certain suppliers of whole, fresh produce, and identifies future aspirations to encourage continuous improvement in a meaningful way.

MetLife is First U.S. Insurer to Achieve Carbon Neutrality

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has achieved its 2015 goal of carbon neutrality, becoming the first U.S.-based insurer to do so. MetLife achieved carbon neutrality by integrating sustainability and energy efficiency best practices across the company’s global operations, and then offsetting the remainder of emissions through investments in carbon mitigation projects around the world.

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