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 Development Goals

Crop Science Sustainability Progress Report

The Crop Science Sustainability Progress Report supplements the Bayer AG Sustainability Report and provides a closer look at the many ways the Crop Science division is advancing sustainable agriculture and creating the best possible outcomes for farmers, consumers and our planet.

Environment

Clearing the Air on Carbon Markets: How Nasdaq Aids Companies’ Net-Zero Journey

Nasdaq believes in the power of carbon markets. As a leading global exchange and innovative technology company, we are leveraging our marketplace technology to bring these markets to scale, build their integrity across the globe and help innovate the future of carbon removal.

Environment

U.S. Banks Have an Opportunity To Advance a Just Transition. Here’s How.

With capital pouring into electric vehicle manufacturing, decarbonizing buildings, greening the grid, and advanced manufacturing, the shift to a clean economy isn’t hypothetical anymore.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Direct Relief and FedEx Team Up To Respond to Dengue Outbreak in Mexico

In collaboration with FedEx, Direct Relief delivered 40 Emergency Medical Backpacks to support COPAC (Operational Center for Contingency Attention), Mexico’s Federal Health Secretariat, which is responsible for responding to health emergencies throughout the country.

Health & Healthcare

Creating A New Narrative Around Substance Use Disorder to Reduce the Stigma

In the pursuit of changing the narrative around substance use disorder to reduce the stigma, Craig Melvin, TODAY Show host and speaker at a recent Advertising Week New York (AWNY) panel.

Education

Henkel Celebrates Manufacturing Day 2023 by Engaging Local Students at Its Facilities

Manufacturing Day visits are a part of Henkel's commitment to education and continued investment in opportunities that provide students of all ages access to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) resources and STEM-related career information.

Events, Media & Communications

Banks and Institutional Asset Owners Aim for Net Zero Emissions

The UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), formed in 2019, is a member-led initiative of institutional investors committed to transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero GHG emissions by year 2050 – a tall order.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How To Execute Your ESG Strategy With Data and Cloud Technologies

Building a strong ESG strategy and reporting structure can feel overwhelming. It’s often best to start by identifying a few material issues that are most important to your organization rather than trying to report on everything.

Environment

Can Regenerative Agriculture Regenerate the US Food System?

The conversation recently made its way to Washington, DC — where the Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee of Oversight and Reform discussed calls to reform federal policies that unjustly favor corporate agribusiness, often at the expense of family farmers.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Meeting EU Regulations Head-On

“The Single-Use Plastic Directive is unprecedented,” explains Riccardo Vellani, Product Director for Additional Materials at Tetra Pak.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Corporate IT Office in Eagan, MN Gives Back to The Open Door

Maximus works with many community charities throughout the country. In continuing Maximus’ charitable work and giving back to the local community, the Corporate IT office in Eagan, Minnesota, selected the Open Door Pantry for this year’s charitable event!

Education

Discovery Education Offers New Resources for National STEM Day

Discovery Education presents a curated collection of engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to students and teachers for National STEM Day.

Diversity & Inclusion

This Nonprofit Is Helping To Build ‘A Truly Inclusive Employment Environment’

Michelle is one of a dozen or so participants in a program called Teens in Transition offered by the Regional Access Mobilization Project (RAMP), a nonprofit serving four counties in northwest Illinois, including DeKalb and Winnebago.

Diversity & Inclusion

Powering Our Progress: Expedia Group’s Journey To Pay Parity

Expedia Group’s mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere. Part of this includes reviewing our systems and processes to ensure fairness and equity — including employee compensation.

Health & Healthcare

Aegis Writes a New Chapter on Pathogen Surveillance

Before SARS-CoV-2, Aegis Sciences Corporation was a small, well-established lab with a specific niche. Founded in 1990, the Nashville-based company focused on anti-doping testing and medication compliance.

Health & Healthcare

Workforce Retention on the Line As Employers Battle Employee Burnout

Employers across various U.S. industries and regions are struggling to meet their employees' health care benefits needs — and employee satisfaction, wellbeing and retention are at stake, according to the 13th annual Aflac WorkForces Report released by Aflac Incorporated.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bloomberg Launches New York Chapter of Women’s Buy-Side Network

Bloomberg announced the launch of a New York Chapter of the Bloomberg Women’s Buy-Side Network (BWBN), a group focused on elevating and advancing women in the asset management industry.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

KeyBank Provides $11.3 Million of Financing for New Affordable Seniors Housing in Cleveland

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) provided $11.3 million for 9% tax credit equity to finance the new construction of Garrett Square Apartments, a 49-unit affordable seniors housing project located in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.

Sustainable Development Goals

Cisco Refresh Reinforces Sustainability Efforts

In a panel discussion led by Cisco within the Energy and Transition stream of Climate Week NYC’s “The Hub Live”, experts explored the topics of “transforming grids globally, and the role of technology, digitalization, and collaboration on the road to renewable expansion.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Forbes Names CBRE One of America’s Net-Zero Leaders

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) has been named to Forbes’ inaugural Net-Zero Leaders list. CBRE was the highest-ranked commercial real estate services company.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Georgia-Pacific Gives Back to First Responders Throughout the Country

Georgia-Pacific is committed to supporting those who protect the communities where employees live and work. Since 2006, Georgia-Pacific’s Bucket Brigade program has awarded more than $3 million in grants, educational materials, and other in-kind donations to fire departments.

Energy

Duke Energy’s 2023 Site Readiness Program Helps Prepare Business, Industrial Sites in an Effort To Spark Economic Growth in Florida

Duke Energy has selected 11 properties in Florida for inclusion in its 2023 Site Readiness Program, which prepares high-potential business and industrial sites for economic development investments and markets them nationwide to companies looking to expand or relocate.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

AB Partners With Alvéole To Install Urban Bee Hive

In May 2023, Fifth + Broadway and AllianceBernstein (AB), a leading global investment management and research firm, announced the installation of a honeybee hive on the green deck of the 501 Commerce building in partnership with Alvéole.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Kimberly-Clark Among Top 40 Nonwovens Industry Companies

Nonwovens Industry recently named Kimberly-Clark as a Top 40 Nonwovens Industry Company in recognition of the role nonwovens continue to play as a key driver of innovation and growth for both our business and brands.

Environment

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Launches Higg FEM 4.0

Today, in partnership with Worldly, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) launched the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) 4.0 tool.

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