As the world grows ever more connected, access to financial tools has expanded dramatically. Today, 79% of adults worldwide have a bank account, an increase from 51% in 2011. This is a remarkable gain.
The concept of financial inclusion is still relatively new in Japan. However, there are a rising number of individuals and households who find themselves in a difficult financial situation due to a decrease in savings, the inability to borrow money, and growing poverty. Working together with MetLife Insurance K.K. on financial inclusion, one of the company’s theme-based CSR activities in Japan since last year, MetLife Foundation has seen this as an opportunity to identify emerging needs around financial inclusion while advocating for further dialogue on this topic on the policy front.
Lisa is a seasoned sustainability professional with nearly 20 years of experience. As a leader of Cone Communication’s CR Strategy group, her infectious passion for sustainability and social impact energizes the award-winning practice. Lisa and her team collaborate with clients including Ben & Jerry's, Converse, Northwestern Mutual, PwC, Timberland, US Bank, VISA and others to develop and activate their CR strategies. Additionally, Lisa has extensive client-side experience after serving as Group Director for The Coca-Cola Company’s sustainability communications team, where she led worldwide corporate communications and stakeholder engagement in areas of water stewardship, climate protection, sustainable packaging, women’s economic empowerment, and active healthy living.
Costa Cruises has presented the 10th edition of its Sustainability Report, entitled “Sea You Tomorrow – On course for the future”, highlighting the main sustainability results achieved by the company in 2015.
Large commercial and industrial complexes are increasingly showing more interest in how power is consumed at their facilities, and how they can more efficiently manage their utility costs. These companies are discovering many options that have only recently opened up due to new technologies and decreasing system costs.
CAVe is Antea Group’s bundled solution of industry-leading software tools for data management and visualization coupled with our consultants’ expertise. CAVe can increase the quality and precision of your data and provide spatial analysis and visualization to support project initiatives in a cost-effective/efficient way. Your data quality and the quality of your deliverables increases. There’s no black box here—our project teams have web-enabled access and full transparency into their data. CAVe can be applied across all portfolios and service lines. It’s a customizable, flexible, and robust enterprise solution.
To support our drive for best practice in responsible investment, we constantly monitor our compliance with our Responsible Investment Standard. We aim to be active and engaged investors: our South African asset manager has met our target of casting 100% of proxy votes, and we are making good progress across the rest of the Group. A proxy vote is where we vote on a company resolution at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on behalf of the people who have delegated that responsibility to us.
CBRE and TAIPEI 101 have ushered in a new era for international green buildings, becoming the highest scoring LEED v4 project in the world to-date, and the first to reach the 90 points threshold. TAIPEI 101 appointed CBRE’s Sustainability Asia team to act as LEED consultant to guide them through the process of recertifying its existing LEED v2009 Platinum certification in September 2014.
Join us as we travel the world to uncover real stories of impact—from landfills and energy transition to workplace safety, emerging contaminants, and...
The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
