ESG News from Leading Brands

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Diversity & Inclusion | CARE

Transforming Daily Lives Through Digital Savings

In Sierra Leone, small savings groups have a long history of supporting farmers and marginalized communities, especially women. In short, saving groups have transformed lives, offering financial support and fostering community resilience.
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Diversity & Inclusion

The Power of Women: How We've Become One of the Most Gender Balanced C-Suite on the CAC40, and Why We Won't Stop Here

All of us need to be champions of change and equity. To challenge mindsets and stereotypes. To speak up when you see bias. It takes all diversities to help create a more equitable world together.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

How Estella Tse Uses VR Art to Help the Earth and #StopAsianHate

Estella Tse is a big deal in the VR art world, standing at the intersection of augmented and virtual reality tech with traditional studio culture.

Energy

Employee Spotlight: Colby Hall - Lowering Carbon Intensity

Meet Colby. She's finding ways to lower carbon intensity of our operations. Read about the difference her work is making in the 2020 Corporate Sustainability Report chevron.com/sustainability

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Sustainable Development Goals

Webinar: Plan-Do-Check-Act: How to Build and Maintain an Effective EHS Management System

Join our EHS management system experts on Wednesday, July 28 at 2pm EDT for Plan-Do-Check-Act: How to Build and Maintain an Effective EHS Management System. Learn about the foundation of EHS management systems, how to build an effective approach that suits your organization, and how to develop an effective management system.

Research, Reports & Publications

2021 ESG Reporting Details Meaningful Progress in Key Areas

While the events of 2020 challenged us all, they reinforced Walmart's desire to accelerate our transformation and commit to becoming a regenerative company — seeking to fulfill our customer mission in a way that restores, renews and replenishes nature and humanity.

Research, Reports & Publications

T. Rowe Price Releases 2020 Sustainability Report

T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ-GS: TROW) has published its 2020 Sustainability Report, A Resolve to Reach Higher, highlighting progress on its sustainability journey, its commitment to increasing transparency and accountability, and plans for developing new environmental targets.

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Research, Reports & Publications

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Releases Fifth Full Sustainability Report, Continuing Its Middle East Corporate Sustainability Leadership

NBK today released its fifth annual full Sustainability Report, summarizing the company’s continued progress in advancing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management activities and performance.

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Health & Healthcare

ZzappMalaria: Meet the Team That Is Using AI to Eradicate Malaria

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Cummins Engaging Employees Across Company to Achieve Environmental Goals

Cummins is working to engage employees in both the company’s 2030 goals to further reduce Cummins’ environmental impact and the company’s aspiration to be carbon neutral by 2050.

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Health & Healthcare

10 NHS Staff on How UK Aid Cuts Make Their Jobs Harder

Doctors, nurses, and more across the UK spoke to Global Citizen about how it’s impacted their work.

Health & Healthcare

The Second Wave of Sustainability Is Health and Well-Being

For health and wellbeing in buildings, a wellness certification for a building was a luxury a year ago. Now some consider it a must have, and a way to encourage workers back to the office.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Points of Light Launches Community for Employee Civic Engagement

Global nonprofit Points of Light announced today their latest offering for corporate social responsibility professionals. Points of Light’s Community for Employee Civic Engagement, known as CECE, is an online resource and community for those looking to develop, support and master their approach to employee civic engagement. To become a member, simply create an account with an email address.

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Events, Media & Communications

SB Brands for Good Partners With Ipsos to Uncover Global Insights and Trends on Consumers' Adoption of Sustainable Behaviors

SB Brands for Good, a multi-brand collaboration led by Sustainable Brands, where leading global brands are working to use their collective influence to drive sustainable behavior change at scale, has announced a new partnership with Ipsos to expand its consumer research globally.

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Events, Media & Communications

Engaging Consumers in Climate Action: Essential Steps for Brands

As the world emerges from the global pandemic, evidence suggests that a majority of consumers worldwide want to take personal action against climate change.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Finding New Ways to Innovate and Make Operations Safer and More Sustainable

We are always finding new ways to innovate and make operations safer and more #sustainable. We are launching a new commitment to sustainability that we want to share with you.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Taking Pride in the Pursuit of Parenthood

For many couples, adoption is not a viable path to starting a family due to the high cost and the length of time it takes to be placed with a child, with same-sex couples often subjected to longer timelines. When it comes to the overall expense, some companies such as American offer an adoption reimbursement benefit to team members to help ease the financial burden of the process.

Diversity & Inclusion

A Culture of Belonging That Drives Innovation

Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity at Medtronic means zero barriers to opportunity and a future where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and for the life experiences that they contribute.

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Highlights From Enbridge's 2020 Sustainability Journey

At Enbridge, we deliver the energy that fuels people’s quality of life. For us, it’s also about building bridges to an equitable, inclusive and sustainable future for all of our stakeholders.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

7 Steps for Conducting Ergonomic Assessments in Lower-Risk Facilities

EHS managers of lower-risk facilities know that providing a safe, healthy, and comfortable work environment is key to employee productivity and engagement. As a result, many EHS programs include an ergonomic component, beginning with conducting an ergonomic assessment.

Environment

Meet the “Mother of Forests” Advocating for Responsible Forestry Practices

P&G and our Family Care brands go beyond responsible sourcing and support efforts to keep forests as forests now and for generations to come.

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Sustainable Development Goals

The Canadian Social Value Exchange - Social Value and Our Sustainable Future.

The Canadian Social Value Exchange (#SVCANEX) is an ongoing series of gatherings for Social Value Canda members, thought leaders and practitioners across the breadth of the social value community.

As an active network at the heart of Social Value International, #SVCANEX is convening vibrant, essential and urgent discussion on how valuing social and environmental impact must be embedded into the heart of decision making.

Given the need for global action, it has never been more important to engage in strategies that will increase wellbeing, equality and achieve a sustainable future for us all. Addressing the global climate crisis requires addressing poverty and inequality in step with all environmental actions.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Oportun's Kate Layton Named in Top 100 Women of Influence 2021

Oportun is proud to announce that Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Kate Layton, was named one of the 100 Women of Influence in 2021 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

The Reward and Risk of Alternative Proteins

Across the emerging alternative proteins landscape, innovation and aspiration are staring down the realities of materials cost, regulation and scalability challenges. How fast can entrepreneurs get their products to market, at a price consumers are willing to pay?

Green Infrastructure

DesignFWD Podcast Episode 02: Connecting Each Other Through Design

For our second episode, we are joined by Stacey Gerbman, Northeast Field Designer for Mohawk Group, to chat about how transit systems of smart cities influence wayfinding, the connection between rivers and cities – and how we can connect with each other through design.

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Education

Transforming Education Today With Private-Public Partnerships Focused on Tomorrow

According to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the United States is at a once-in-a-century opportunity to transform education.

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