Corporate Responsibility

Smithfield Foods Adds 250 Jobs in North Carolina With New Distribution Center

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce the grand opening of its new distribution center in Tar Heel, North Carolina, which will create approximately 250 new jobs in the state. Smithfield invested more than $100 million into the over 500,000-square foot facility, about the size of eight football fields, and its blast cell cold storage capabilities at its processing facility, which will strengthen the company’s supply chain to better serve customers globally.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Mayors of Leading Cities in North America Join Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York 2019

Leading US mayors join CEOs and business leaders from North America’s most innovative, responsible brands to discuss how to lead the change to a sustainable future through investments, collaboration and innovation at Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Summit New York, March 18-19.

Awards & Rankings

GRI Reporting’s Impact on ESG Ratings

Two years ago, the sustainability business community elected me to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholder Council (SC). Thank you, it has been an honor to represent you. I recently traveled to Amsterdam to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Council. I thought our readers might like to hear some of what we discussed and learned.

Research & Reports

What’s the Risk? It’s Time to Find Out.

Resilience is an organization’s ability to adapt to risks and threats that challenge its viability. It’s also an imperative in the face of an increasingly broad and unpredictable risk landscape. This is especially true when it comes to energy and sustainability.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

It's Time to Invest in Her - 2019 the Year of Investing in Women

Learn how eradicating gender inequality could help unleash perhaps the greatest period of economic growth in the history of the planet.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

What's the Case for WMD's and Responsible Investing?

WMD's. Not weapons of mass destruction but women, millennials and diversity. Jean Case, Case Foundation CEO, says it's an economic and innovation imperative to focus on such communities left on the sidelines of responsible investment.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Nuveen President Jose Minaya on Sustainability in APAC

On December 5, Bloomberg kicked off New York’s first-ever Sustainable Finance Week, with the goal of helping investors realize returns while investing in sustainable practices.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

From Problems to Profits: Investors Eye Asia's Environmental Issues

Ramy Inocencio sits down with the CEO Amit Bouri, the head of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) during New York's first Sustainable Finance Week and Bloomberg's inaugural Global Responsible Investing Forum to discuss how investors are turning problems into profits.

Environment

Ecolab Foundation Commits $5 Million to Support Sustainability Research and Education at the University of Minnesota

Ecolab Chairman and CEO Douglas M. Baker, Jr., and University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced a $5 million gift from the Ecolab Foundation to the University-wide Driven campaign, in support of environmental sustainability research and education. A cornerstone of the Ecolab Foundation gift is $2 million to establish an endowed chair for the Institute on the Environment.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Climate Change Moves From Risk to Reward

Financial players and their investors have much to gain from the shift toward greater sustainability. These investments offer a dual benefit: they lower emissions, speeding the transition to a low-carbon economy, and they can make (or save) money. People are increasingly aware of the first two pillars of sustainable investing -- risk identification and transparency. Now we need to inform them about the third: the need to drive capital toward sustainable opportunities, both at home and internationally.

Latest Campaigns

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Employee and Community Engagement

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Collaboration and Partnership

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