ESG News from Leading Brands

Responsible Production & Consumption

Reforestation: More Than Planting Trees

Mar 5, 2020 10:20 AM ET

Climate change and biodiversity loss are on everyone’s minds these days – as they should be.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Albertsons Companies Foundation Wins Community Hero Award at Benevity’s 2020 Corporate Goodness Awards

Mar 5, 2020 10:00 AM ET

The Albertsons Companies Foundation won a Corporate Goodness Award, “the Goodie,” for our community outreach programs, especially our work to end childhood hunger in our neighborhoods.

Environment

Hormel Foods Celebrates Completion of Solar Array at Its Swiss American Sausage Company Facility in California

Mar 5, 2020 10:00 AM ET

Environment

Olympic Games to Become “Climate Positive” From 2030

Mar 5, 2020 9:40 AM ET

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Today announced that the Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games will be “climate positive” from 2030 onwards.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Service in the U.S. Military Translated to a Career at Blackbaud for Customer Advocacy Manager Tim Newborn

Mar 5, 2020 9:35 AM ET

Education

The Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education Introduce Digital Workplace Training to Combat Opioid Epidemic

Mar 5, 2020 9:30 AM ET

The Operation Prevention program, created in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education, today announced a 4-part series to educate workplace professionals about the opioid epidemic.

Sustainable Development Goals

Retail Revival Grows Internationally, Helping Local Businesses Expand Their Sales Online

Mar 5, 2020 9:15 AM ET

eBay partners with local city leaders in regions across the world to develop innovative small business programs that address specific retail challenges and scale solutions to benefit entrepreneurs across different communities

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Wells Fargo Asset Management Launches Municipal Sustainability Fund

Mar 5, 2020 9:10 AM ET

Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM) today announced the launch of the Wells Fargo Municipal Sustainability Fund, highlighting WFAM’s commitment to provide clients innovative solutions and play a leading role in sustainable investing.

Diversity & Inclusion

Be a Problem-Solver: On a Journey of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Mar 5, 2020 8:00 AM ET

Ask yourself: how are you contributing to solving today’s problem? It could be something small, specific to just today, or conceptual and large with a longer time frame.

Diversity & Inclusion

UPS Longitudes | Podcast: Quality, Style and Respect for All Women

Mar 5, 2020 7:45 AM ET

Kathleen Marran, UPS Vice President of Marketing, Diverse Segments: women business owners face difficulties in raising money and handling that first big order — how exactly do you master the logistics needed to keep pace with rising customer demand?

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Congrats to the 2020 Corporate Goodness Award Winners!

Mar 4, 2020 7:00 PM ET

Congrats to the 2020 Corporate Goodness Award Winners: Levi Strauss & Co., Adobe, Albertsons Companies/Albertsons Companies Foundation, Splunk, Intel, TELUS, Arm and Tricia Stevens from Lush!

Responsible Production & Consumption

Gaming’s Coolest Chair Design Wins HP’s HBCU Challenge

Mar 4, 2020 5:30 PM ET

Meet the winners from North Carolina Central University, who took home the top prize for HP’s third-annual HBCU business challenge.

Research, Reports & Publications

Climate Leadership with the Adoption of Science-Based Targets (SBTs)

Mar 4, 2020 5:10 PM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Sanofi US Named Top Company by the National Association for Female Executives

Mar 4, 2020 4:50 PM ET

The pharmaceutical company’s commitment to gender parity is underlined by its ambition of reaching 50/50 in senior leadership by 2025 and evident in its strong female representation in its seniormost ranks in North America

Diversity & Inclusion

Bridgestone Named First Partner for First Video Game Designed to Celebrate Paralympic Athletes

Mar 4, 2020 4:00 PM ET

Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest tire and rubber company and a Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner, announced today its sponsorship support for the first official video game of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Events, Media & Communications

The Ray’s Highway of The Future Experience at CONEXPO-CON/AGG

Mar 4, 2020 3:15 PM ET

From March 10th through the 14th, The Ray is partnering with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) to bring The Ray to CONEXPO-CON/AGG, North America’s largest construction trade show, in Las Vegas.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ON Semiconductor Makes Its Debut at GreenBiz 20

Mar 4, 2020 3:00 PM ET

The GreenBiz Conference, held in Scottsdale, Arizona, claims to be “the premier annual event for sustainable business leaders” and in my opinion, they definitely deliver.

Events, Media & Communications

Qualcomm's Own Angela Baker Will be Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's 10th Annual International Women’s Day Forum

Mar 4, 2020 2:30 PM ET

What milestones will we, as a society, reach as we push towards a more gender-inclusive society? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 10th Annual International Women’s Day Forum will highlight the visionaries creating a better future for all.

Energy

FedEx and Chanje to Develop Groundbreaking Charging Infrastructure

Mar 4, 2020 2:00 PM ET

Through an agreement with Chanje Energy Inc., the company plans to electrify 42 FedEx stations in California, making it one of the largest deployments of integrated charging infrastructure by a single commercial fleet to date.

Media & Communications

How the Private Sector Can Do Well by Doing Good

Mar 4, 2020 1:00 PM ET

We live in a time of unprecedented growth and global prosperity. A middle class is emerging in China, India and elsewhere. Global poverty is at its lowest point in decades. Babies and children are growing up healthier, people are living longer...

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Stepping Up Our Work on Circularity

Mar 4, 2020 12:00 PM ET

The circular economy is a natural extension of Cisco’s own business transformation. As a company, we are moving from product upgrade cycles to recurring cloud computing and a software-subscription model.

Environment

Driven to Tears: Stefanie Lemcke + Jim Parry

Mar 4, 2020 11:55 AM ET

Do you ever find yourself sitting stuck in traffic with your thoughts moving from benign irritation with the sheer number of cars on the road, to a fixation upon humanity’s encroaching doom?

Health & Healthcare

As Cancer in Older People Increases, so Do the Challenges to Help Them Live Longer, Fuller Lives

Mar 4, 2020 11:40 AM ET

Our multiyear When Cancer Grows Old™ initiative is intended to address the challenges of cancer and aging by collaborating with the global cancer community of advocates, healthcare providers and policymakers around the world to find solutions.

Environment

Effort to Save Burrowing Owls Goes Underground in Chino

Mar 4, 2020 11:00 AM ET

When Brian Bielfelt had an opportunity to help build artificial burrows in Chino for burrowing owls, he jumped at the chance. “I’ve loved burrowing owls for a long time — since I was in third grade in Florida,” said the SCE staff biologist

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MetLife Named a Top Company for Executive Women

Mar 4, 2020 10:00 AM ET

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has been named a top company for executive women by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), in recognition of its efforts to identify, promote and mentor successful women.