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HARMAN Awarded JLR’s Global Supplier Excellence Award for Integrity

The annual Global Supplier Excellence Awards, held last month at JLR's Classic Works Coventry, celebrated the collective contribution and impact of JLR’s supply base toward achieving a robust and sustainable global supply chain.

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The Buzz Around the ScottsMiracle-Gro Beehives

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whirlpool Corporation Employees Help Improve Homes and Lives in Colombia

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All You Need to Know About Impact and Legacy at Paris 2024: For the People, for the Community and for the Environment

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Five-Year Milestone Reflects El Paso Refinery Team’s Dedication to Rail Safety

Marathon Petroleum’s El Paso, Texas, refinery has gone more than five years without being cited for safety or equipment defects in any railcar that left the refinery.

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Green Infrastructure

Cargo Bikes Helping Small Businesses Become More Sustainable in This London Borough

FedEx sponsored Climate-KIC and EIT Digital’s Sustainable Cities Climate Impact Challenge in 2023. Four cities were selected, including Hackney, working to expand the use of cargo bikes for small businesses.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Taco Bell® Gives Back to Its Roots, Empowering Local Entrepreneurs by Providing Food Carts and Bringing Ave 26 Family Night Market Back to LA To Celebrate Taco Tuesdays

Hispanic and Latin cuisines have long inspired our menu at Taco Bell and the Southern California community around us. So, we’re providing resources to help local food vendors and their flavorful aspirations thrive.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Building a Better Future: Home Depot Foundation’s Annual Operation Surprise Campaign Reaches New Heights

The Home Depot Foundation recently wrapped its annual veteran service campaign. Operation Surprise is about service, community and living the company’s core values. This year, the campaign garnered record-breaking reach, touching the lives of veterans and their families.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Kohler's 2022 Believing in Better Report: Reducing Environmental Impacts Across Operations

In 2022 we began evaluating operations in our manufacturing sites using the Design for Environment (DfE) process, resulting in tangible ways to advance our net-zero 2035 goals—including moving toward renewable energy, reducing water consumption, and reusing waste materials

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Health & Healthcare

Shatterproof and Law Enforcement and Drug Advocacy Groups Urge Congress To Close De Minimis Loophole To Address Fentanyl Crisis

Shatterproof along with a coalition of law enforcement and national nonprofit and community-based organizations devoted to fighting against the fentanyl crisis plaguing our nation sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate urging them to take immediate action.

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Innovation & Technology

Can AI Make Us Better Leaders? A Sustainability Professional Weighs In

Many promises have been made about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI)—and one more can be added to the list. In the domain of sustainability, especially when it comes to disclosures, applying AI may help make us better leaders.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Presents at ISPO Munich

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) joined forces with Fair Wear Foundation (FW) and the Social and Labour Convergence Program (SLCP) to present on “Leveraging Collective Action for Human Rights” at ISPO Munich.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

From Stargazer to Science Educator: MilliporeSigma Employee Ignites Passion for Science

The Curiosity Cube—a retrofitted shipping container turned mobile science lab from MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany—helps instill a love for science at a young age to encourage students to explore a career in the field.

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Innovation & Technology

Critical Conversations at the European Business Summit: The Commercial Stakes Are Heating Up

Last week, at the European Business Summit, I had the opportunity to speak on a panel addressing “How to create both a competitive and sustainable industrial policy.”

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Responsible Production & Consumption

To Achieve a ‘Forest Positive’ Planet, We Must Prioritise the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

At The Consumer Goods Forum, we are striving to ensure that all businesses prioritise the rights of Indigenous Peoples and work closely with them to protect the world’s forests – through our Forest Positive and Human Rights Coalitions of Action.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Crown Holdings 2022 Sustainability Report: Our Approach to Sustainability

Built around 20 aggressive—but measurable—sustainability goals to be completed by or before the end of 2030, the Twentyby30™ program zeroes in on five key pillars of action that represent topics of urgent global concern.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The National Park Foundation Celebrates the 2023 Subaru Share the Love® Event

The National Park Foundation (NPF) is participating as a national charity partner beneficiary for the 11th consecutive year in the Subaru Share the Love® Event.

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Health & Healthcare

Boston Scientific: When a Loved One Has Parkinson’s Disease

Now, over a decade later, Eleanor shares how Ivan’s diagnosis changed both of their lives—and how a Boston Scientific treatment helped them take a turn for the better.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Sustainability Through Cisco’s Circular Business Practices

In the fast-paced digital age, electronic waste, commonly known as e-waste, has emerged as a formidable environmental challenge.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Meet Maria Angela, a Proud Participant in McDonald’s Global Youth Opportunity Program

Meet McDonald’s crew member Maria Angela, a proud participant in McDonald's global Youth Opportunity program (run in partnership with the International Youth Foundation).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Georgia-Pacific Employees Help in the Fight Against Breast Cancer

For over 16 years, Georgia-Pacific LLC has participated in the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk. We just had our largest team since 2019, with over 150 registered participants!

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

AB: Six Metrics Light the Path to Sustainability for Emerging-Market Sovereigns

Just six metrics can effectively assess sovereign issuers’ sustainability and provide guidance for both issuers and investors.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Gilead’s Legal Team Achieves Rigorous Diversity Certification

When Shirley Cantin was a law student, about half of her classmates were women. Yet when she joined a corporate law firm, Shirley noticed that most of its leaders were white men. And when she left a decade later, little progress on the leadership team’s diversity had been made.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Kimberly-Clark’s Lisa Morden Featured in Special Report on the Green Transition

Lisa Morden, Vice President of Safety, Sustainability and Occupational Health, was recently featured in the annual Pillars of the Green Transition: COP28 Edition report.

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Sustainable Development Goals

What Makes a Credible Living Wage Claim?

New guidance from ISEAL sets out how companies and sustainability systems can credibly communicate about their work on living wages.

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Environment

AccountAbility Joins With Global Commons Alliance and UN Climate Champions Team to Launch Navigator Addressing Nature and Climate Action

AccountAbility joins with the Global Commons Alliance Accountability Accelerator and the High-Level Champions to unveil the Nature and Climate Action Resource Navigator.

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Environment

COP28 Draft Agreement Falls Fatally Short of the Clarity and Ambition the Climate and Economy Demand: A Phase Out of Fossil Fuels

The latest COP28 draft agreement published today falls fatally short of what the climate and economy demand: a phase out of unabated fossil fuels.

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Sustainable Development Goals

People + Planet Leadership: Climate Change Demands Healthier and More Sustainable Buildings

“There is no planetary health and no human health separately. Both of them go hand-in-hand. We know the balance between them, and we understand that outcomes that are delivered by one benefit the other and vice versa.”

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies Named to S&P Dow Jones Sustainability World and North American Indices

Trane Technologies has been named to the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the third consecutive year and the North America Index for the thirteenth consecutive year

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