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Innovation & Technology | Keysight Technologies

Collaborative Synergy: The Key to Unlocking 6G’s Potential

As we stand on the brink of the next phase in wireless technology evolution, 6G promises to transform how we connect the digital and physical worlds.

Research, Reports & Publications

Momentum Builds Towards Historic Dakar 2026 YOG

International Olympic Committee

Responsible Production & Consumption

Toxic Release Inventory Reporting: A Q&A With Kara and Friends

Antea Group

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Beets, Basketball and Mid-Bore Engines

Cummins Inc

Health & Healthcare

A Collaborative Approach to Solving Global Health Issues

In today’s ever-changing healthcare environment, new and creative solutions are needed to accelerate advances in global health and development. Pfizer is responding to this new global picture by focusing on locally driven and collaborative approaches that aim to break down healthcare access barriers, address the health needs of individuals and support long-term capacity building.

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Sustainable Development Goals

UNIDO, HP Inc. and the HP Foundation Extend Partnership to Promote Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Developing Countries

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), HP and the HP Foundation have renewed their partnership to further foster entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for young men and women in developing countries through technology-related learning.

Environment

Performance in Watershed Context: Why It Matters and How to Approach It

Discover why performance in watershed context matters and learn about Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable’s work to develop a practical tool. Since our inception, the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) has been focused on enhancing water stewardship inside and outside the beverage sector.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

U.S. Chamber Foundation Announces Finalists for the 2017 Corporate Citizenship Awards

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation today named the 24 finalists for the 2017 Corporate Citizenship Awards. For the 18th year, and with media partner USA TODAY Network, the awards will honor businesses and chambers of commerce from around the world for positive social and community initiatives.

Energy

The New ‘3Ps’ of Sustainability: Pragmatism, Perseverance and Passion

In sustainability, we often talk about the “three Ps” of the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit. At GM, we use it as a framework to evaluate our performance as a company and leverage it to develop solutions to a variety of societal and environmental challenges.

As corporate citizens, it is our responsibility to protect our customers and the communities where they live. We also strengthen our business by operating this way. In the case of renewable energy, we save $5 million annually while delivering cleaner air to communities.

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Environment

Socially Sustainable: Antea Group Employees Get Their Hands Dirty

Read about how Antea Group employees volunteered to help clean up a river, plant vegetables, stock a food bank and more at our latest blog.

Health & Healthcare

Former CDC Chief Launches $225 Million Global Health Initiative

Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is starting a new initiative to tackle some of global health’s thorniest issues: cardiovascular disease and epidemics.

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Sustainable Development Goals

On the Road to #COP23 Schneider Electric Showcases Programs to Meet the Objectives of the Fight Against Climate Change

After a successful COP22 in Marrakech (Morocco), the Climate Chance World Summit conference took place in Agadir, Morocco. It is the biggest event for non-state actors (local authorities, companies, NGOS, etc.) before COP23, gathering more than 300 speakers. As a participant of, Schneider Electric showed some solutions and programs that combine social business models with clean technologies in order to harmonize actions performed in the fight against climate change and for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals “

Sustainable Development Goals

Costa Cruises Partners With Winnow to Reduce Food Waste at Sea

Costa Cruises is joining forces with Winnow to fight food waste, extending Costa’s deep commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement. As pioneers in the global cruise industry, Costa – the Italy-based cruise line famous for its Italian-style holidays and a part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world’s largest cruise company -- is focused on providing an excellent dining experience while also investing in the reduction of food losses at the production site, where the ultimate goal is to consistently reduce waste.

Energy

GM’s Ohio and Indiana Plants to Meet Electricity Needs With Wind

All of GM’s Ohio and Indiana manufacturing facilities – including those that build the Chevrolet Cruze and Silverado and GMC Sierra light-duty pickup trucks – will meet their electricity needs through 100 percent renewable energy. GM is buying a total of 200 megawatts of wind energy from Ohio and Illinois wind farms.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Celebrating His Forever Family

Jayden met his adoptive parents at 14 months old after being in foster care for nine months. His mom shared, “We never expected the adoption process to take as long as it did, but we would do it all over again! He was our son from the first day we met him.”

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Supporting Young People is Key to Sustainable Business

At the UN General Assembly in New York this week, an important topic is how business can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We at Nestlé believe that supporting young people is not only core to the SDGs, but is also core to achieving business goals in this fast-changing world.

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Media & Communications

DJSI Results Announced -- Are You In / Out? Attend Our Workshop in Collaboration with RobecoSAM in New York City on October 24th

Many corporations that endeavor to be sustainable become a bit nervous as we pass Labor Day in the USA. The rebalancing of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes is traditionally announced at that time. Is my company in? Out? Increasingly, CEOs and other C-suite execs and board members (as well as numerous managers) are holding "membership" in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices in very high regard.

Education

CITGO Rewards McNeese Business College Students With Scholarships

CITGO Lake Charles looks for opportunities to award deserving local students for academic excellence and recently awarded $5,000 in scholarship funds to McNeese State University Business students. The MSU business scholarship recipients each received a $1,000 scholarship towards their college education – a share of the $5,000 scholarship funds that CITGO awards to Business students annually.

Environment

VIDEO | Givewith - Dell and Waterkeeper Alliance Fight Plastic Pollution

This engaging video by Givewith explains the important work of Waterkeeper Alliance, a global nonprofit that protects the world’s waterways, and its partnership with Dell.

Environment

Domtar Sustainability: Bringing Our Sustainable Forestry Practices to Life

Domtar engages in a wide variety of initiatives to ensure we leave the forests that we depend on, and the communities we are a part of, better off for the long term. This is how we bring Domtar’s Sustainable Forestry Principles to life across the unique ecosystems and communities that surround our pulp and paper mills

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Reflecting on Our Ocean Plastic Summer Internship

A guest blog from Dell’s ocean plastic supply chain summer interns Allison Ward and Dan Partin, graduate students at the University of Michigan’s Tauber Institute for Global Operations.

Sustainable Development Goals

Unlocking Opportunities and Advancing Practice: Reflections from World Water Week, Stockholm

Over 3,100 leaders from business, government, civil society and academia gathered at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden. They brought worldwide experience and knowledge covering numerous aspects of water - including conservation, development and governance.

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Health & Healthcare

A Vision – and a Standard – for Healthy, Global Communities

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the WELL Community Standard™ pilot, IWBI’s new global benchmark for healthy, inclusive, equitable, integrated and resilient communities.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Leading CEOs Present Long-Term Business Strategies to Institutional Investors

Building off the momentum from its successful inaugural Forum in February, CECP: The CEO Force for Good will again host CEOs from leading S&P 500 companies at the September 19 CEO Investor Forum (CIF) in New York. CIF, organized by CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative (SII), is a CEO- and investor-backed platform transforming Wall Street’s over-emphasis on short-term quarterly financial results to focus on “long-term value creation”–multi-year strategies that incorporate financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors.

Events, Media & Communications

Corporate Citizenship’s Megan DeYoung to Reveal Research at COMMIT!Forum on Fortune 50 Participation in United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

In the two years since the formation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), organizations have been working to formulate strategies that will contribute to the worldwide goals of eradicating poverty, creating a healthy planet for future generations, and building peaceful and inclusive societies.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Aflac Serves as Diamond Sponsor at CureFest for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Aflac, the leading provider of voluntary insurance sales at the worksite in the U.S. and a longtime champion of the childhood cancer cause, today participated as a Diamond Sponsor of CureFest for Childhood Cancer.

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Education

Shaping the School Experience

Philadelphia magazine and Subaru of America called for nominations for the best teacher in the Greater Philadelphia area. With an overwhelming response, Ryan Berger of Enfield Elementary was proudly announced Philadelphia magazine’s Best Teacher Award recipient. Enfield Elementary received $5,000 and a book donation courtesy of Subaru of America.

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Sustainable Development Goals

#AskTt Twitter Chat: Advancing Economic Growth Through the Agriculture Sector

Join @TetraTechIntDev on September 19, 2017, at 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET/7:00 PM EAT for an #AskTt Twitter Chat on Advancing Economic Growth through the Agriculture Sector, hosted by Tetra Tech International Development Services, and co-hosted by the USAID Feed the Future Uganda Agricultural (Ag) Inputs Activity.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Charter Communications Commits $1.35 Million to Hurricane Irma Relief Efforts

Charter Communications today announced a $350,000 contribution to Rebuilding Together to support relief efforts and specifically assist with home repairs and renovations needed in areas impacted by Hurricane Irma.

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