ESG News from Leading Brands

Diversity & Inclusion

Top WBENC Consumer Companies Join Together for the First Time in Collective Initiative to Source from Women-Owned Businesses

Mar 30, 2017 1:00 PM ET

Walmart announced today that they are one of nine corporations joining in a collaborative effort to track and report sourcing from self-identified and certified women-owned businesses (WOBs) over the next five years.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

GRI is Strengthening Ties with the Investment Community

Mar 30, 2017 12:30 PM ET

GRI and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have signed an Exchange of Letters to deepen the organizations’ collaboration on responsible investment, including work related to the Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative. The collaboration will allow the organizations to reach key players in the investment chain to raise awareness on how sustainability reporting can pave the way to a green economy.

Green Infrastructure

LA 2024: Smartest, Greenest Olympics Bid Ever

Mar 30, 2017 12:00 PM ET

AEG’s StubHub Center leads the way in sport and green innovation as the location of the Green Sports Park in Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2024 Summer and Olympic Paralympic Games.

Environment

Be Part of the Solution: Join the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council

Mar 30, 2017 11:10 AM ET

If your organization recycles plastics or manufactures healthcare products or packaging materials and you want to be on the front lines of the emerging Circular Economy, HPRC wants to talk to you! Work with industry-leading peers and develop real-world tools and projects to explore various approaches to healthcare plastics recycling across the full value chain.

Energy

Ohio Employers Urge Lawmakers to Oppose Clean Energy Rollback Bill

Mar 30, 2017 11:00 AM ET

As the Ohio House of Representatives prepares to vote on HB 114, major businesses and investors representing more than 30,000 employees, call on lawmakers to vote against the bill, a proposal that they say would dismantle the states renewable energy and energy efficiency standards and create prolonged uncertainty for the business and investor community.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bloomberg's Lee Ballin is Recognized by the 2017 Environmental Leader 50

Mar 30, 2017 10:45 AM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Awarded Inaugural LGBTQ Business Equality Excellence Award

Mar 30, 2017 10:35 AM ET

CBRE Group, Inc. has been honored by the Business Equality Network (BEQ) on an inaugural annual list of companies devoted to a diverse and inclusive workplace and marketplace. The 2017 LGBTQ Business Equality Excellence Award honors organizations for fostering economic stability in the LGBTQ community through the fair treatment and inclusion of LGBTQ employees, suppliers, consumers and partners in business.

Health & Healthcare

Better Health, Stronger Communities

Mar 30, 2017 10:15 AM ET

Glovax Biotech Corp., an integrated distributor and retailer of vaccines in the Philippines, has joined Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to provide 40 million vaccine doses to the country’s medium- and low-income communities by 2020, reducing the cost of vaccinations by 75 percent and preventing countless disease outbreaks.

Events, Media & Communications

Institute for Equity and Excellence in Public Education (IEEPE) Hosts Twitter Chat on “Child Trauma, Under-Age Alcohol and Substance Use, and Student Outcomes"

Mar 30, 2017 10:15 AM ET

The Institute for Equity and Excellence in Public Education (IEEPE), in partnership with the Health Alliance on Alcohol, invites you to join them for a Twitter Chat on the connection between child trauma, under-age drinking and marijuana use, and Washington, D.C. student outcomes.

Responsible Production & Consumption

FoodPort

Mar 30, 2017 10:10 AM ET

Steven Colbert once noted, “If the human body is 98 percent water, why am I only 2 percent interested?” Colbert’s jab appropriately questions our wasteful mindset regarding our most precious resource. Our food supply can be viewed similarly: how can we so easily accept wastage levels of 30-40 percent of life-sustaining food resources?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CPS Energy Demand Response Program Named POWERGRID International Project of the Year

Mar 30, 2017 10:05 AM ET

POWERGRID International has selected CPS Energy’s Demand Response Management System (DRMS) as its 2017 Demand Response/Energy Efficiency Project of the Year. The project will unify demand response (DR) and distributed energy resource (DER) programs totaling 165 megawatts (MW) in capacity on a single application.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Subaru of America Celebrates the Return of Spring as the 2017 Cherry Blossom Festival Title Sponsor

Mar 30, 2017 10:00 AM ET

Media & Communications

World Bank & Partners + S&P Dow Jones Indices, & Partners -- Rolling Out New Sustainable Investing Approaches for Institutions...

Mar 30, 2017 10:00 AM ET

Forward Momentum! -- Two new approaches that spell out a-d-v-a-n-c-e-m-e-n-t for sustainable investment: World Bank and S&P Dow Jones Indices (separately) roll out new products and approaches with key partners' participation.

Environment

Domtar Monthly Minute | March 2017

Mar 30, 2017 9:15 AM ET

We all know the benefits of forests - that they absorb carbon, help oxygenate the planet, prevent soil erosion and cool the earth. Earlier this month, Domtar joined the world in celebrating the noble tree on International Day of Forests. Hear from Domtar's vice president of sustainability and communications on the importance of forests, and what the company is doing to ensure they continue to thrive.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Amway Charity Foundation in Russia Presented 2017 ECO Best Award

Mar 30, 2017 9:15 AM ET

What started as simply cleaning up the environment three years ago has led to Amway Russia’s Amway Charity Foundation “Responsible for the future” receiving a 2017 ECO Best Award.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Gildan Investing Over $100,000 Into Community Projects in Latin America Thanks to the 2016 Gildan Glow Run

Mar 30, 2017 9:15 AM ET

The Gildan Glow Run has become one of the most popular volunteer activities¸ since the first marathon in 2013 held in Honduras. We then extended the race to our facilities in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Through these events, we aim to encourage our employees and their families to engage in physical activity while contributing to the needs of their communities.

Research, Reports & Publications

Case Study: Delos™ and IBM | Optimizing Indoor Environments to Improve Health and Performance

Mar 30, 2017 9:15 AM ET

If you’re like most people, you spend around 90% of your time indoors – a stat that may make fitness experts shudder. But thanks to Wellness Real Estate and technology firm Delos, your time inside can be healthy.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Rotary Club Pairs Student with Head of Whirlpool

Mar 30, 2017 9:00 AM ET

David Reimers has always dreamed of working at Whirlpool, and now he's living his dream. When David was in high school, a Rotary club set up an interview for him with Jeff Fettig, the CEO of Whirlpool.

Energy

4th Powering Progress Together Forum Happens in Singapore

Mar 30, 2017 8:50 AM ET

The 4th Powering Progress Together forum took place in Singapore last March 16 at the Changi Exhibition Centre to kick off the Make the Future Singapore festival. A mix of industry experts, members from the academia, government leaders, partners in the business sectors, as well as media representatives were present.

Events, Media & Communications

De Beers Endorses Botswana’s Top Travel Rating

Mar 30, 2017 8:00 AM ET

De Beers has stepped in to support Botswana as a leading tourist destination at the world’s biggest travel trade show.

Social Impact & Volunteering

4 Ways to Help Employees Grasp the Impact of Volunteering

Mar 30, 2017 7:25 AM ET

If you have employees who volunteer either time or money to a worthy cause your business supports, you may find that they don’t always realize how much good their service is actually doing.

Americans give a lot to charitable causes. Nationwide, workplaces raise more than $4 billion from workplace giving. Millennials — the roughly 20- to 35-year-old demographic — not only give to nonprofits actively, but like to give consistently. In fact, 87% of Millennials donated money to worthy causes in 2013.

Research, Reports & Publications

CLP Publishes Its 15th Sustainability Report: Powering the Changing World Today for a Better Tomorrow

Mar 30, 2017 5:00 AM ET

CLP, one of the largest investor-operators of power assets in the Asia-Pacific region, has published its 2016 Sustainability Report showing a detailed picture of its performance on how it manages financial and other capitals to create value for its stakeholders over the long term.

Health & Healthcare

VSP Global and U.S. Conference of Mayors Partner for Second Year to Provide Access to Eye Care to Communities in Need

Mar 29, 2017 6:25 PM ET

San Francisco resident Mounir Ebdellaoi has depended on his glasses to see since age 14. Ebdellaoi lives in one of the city’s most distressed neighborhoods and was recently mugged and his eyewear was destroyed in the altercation.

Events, Media & Communications

Booz Allen Brings Industry Leaders to DC for Machine Intelligence Summit

Mar 29, 2017 6:10 PM ET

Imagine if doctors were able to identify patients with pancreatic cancer—before those patients had a diagnosis—just by examining their Internet search queries. A team of scientists recently used advanced data analytics and Machine Intelligence to do just that.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Points of Light Civic Accelerator Launches Spring 2017 Class

Mar 29, 2017 5:30 PM ET

ATLANTA, March 28, 2017 – The Points of Light Civic Accelerator, with founding partners the PwC Charitable Foundation Inc. and Starbucks Foundation, and CapitalOne Investing for Good, Vodafone Americas Foundation, U.S. Small Business Administration, Dentons, Singing for Change, and hotel sponsor Hilton Worldwide, kicks off the Spring 2017 accelerator program with ventures working to increase economic mobility across the country.