ESG News from Leading Brands

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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

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Rebuilding Together and Lowe’s Address Affordable Housing Shortage One Community at a Time

Rebuilding Together and Lowe’s kicked off the annual Building a Healthy Neighborhood program this week as hundreds of volunteers performed critical home repairs and expanded an urban community garden in Seattle’s historic Central District.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Tomorrow Rising & Schneider's International Energy Training Program | Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric presents Tomorrow Rising: a web series showcasing our international energy training program for determined people and young entrepreneurs from underprivileged backgrounds.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Aflac CSR Hero: Brian Penn

When Aflac CSR Hero Brian Penn isn’t helping protect the company’s valuable private data, he is giving back with purpose.

Social Impact & Volunteering

PayPal Employee GIVE Team Hosts 6th Annual ‘Girls in Tech’ Day in Chennai, India

Each year, the PayPal employee GIVE Team in Chennai, India hosts a ‘Girls in Tech’ program that teaches useful tech skills and provides mentorship to young girls from disadvantaged backgrounds

Environment

Stopping Global Warming Will Cost $50 Trillion: Morgan Stanley Report

Topline: While estimates vary on the cost of halting global warming and reducing net carbon emissions to zero, a new report from Morgan Stanley analysts finds that to do so by 2050 the world will need to spend $50 trillion in five key areas of zero-carbon technology.

Media & Communications

How Taproot Foundation Helps Nonprofits Maximize Volunteers Through Pro Bono Services

This week's Business of Giving features Lindsay Firestone Gruber, president & CEO of the Taproot Foundation.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Team Rubicon and CASE: Stepping in After Severe Storm Damage in Northeast Wisconsin

CASE Construction Equipment dealer Miller-Bradford & Risberg supported Team Rubicon’s second wave of response to severe storms that hit the area in July 2019 that caused severe damage across Langlade and Oconto Counties in northeast Wisconsin.

Energy

United Airlines Pledges $40 Million To Further Decarbonize Commercial Air Travel

United Airlines today further strengthened its reputation as an aviation industry leader in environmental sustainability by committing $40 million toward a new investment vehicle focused on accelerating the development of sustainable aviation fuels

Education

Reaching Kids Early Is the Key to Driving Interest in STEM, Educators Say

Hundreds of JetBlue crewmembers are alumni of Aviation High School, and now they’re paying it forward by regularly volunteering as student mentors and sponsoring field trips to New York airports.

Innovation & Technology

Relaxing Floors: A Stress-Reductive Approach to Design

Fractals are the building block of many of nature’s patterns and have been scientifically proven to reduce stress and so provide benefits to physical health.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

CITGO and Discovery Education Introduce the CITGO Fueling Education™ Student Challenge

CITGO Petroleum Corporation and Discovery Education announce the opening of the CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Xylem Watermark Expands Impact Efforts With First Large-Scale Mexico Project

Through Xylem Watermark’s partnership with Planet Water and the Flex Foundation, 10 primary schools in Aguascalientes, Mexico recently received clean water access through community-based water filtration systems and hygiene education programs.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Changing Girls’ Lives Through STEM Education

Today, too many girls are locked out of STEM and have to work twice as hard to get half as far. Techbridge Girls is leveling the playing field, striving to empower thousands more girls from low-income communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

North Texas Women In Business Learn, Connect & Grow During Comerica Bank Women’s Business Symposium

Comerica Bank capped off the 2019 season of its national Women’s Business Symposium in Dallas/Fort Worth. More than 600 women in business from across North Texas joined for an afternoon of empowering conversations, learning and networking.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sustainable Impact Takes Center Stage at Annual HP Americas Innovation Summit

HP highlighted its commitment to Sustainable Impact via an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of its Nashville-based recycling facilities for hardware and supplies.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

The Project SPAMMY® Experience

Hormel Foods developed SPAMMY®, a shelf-stable poultry product that is fortified with vitamins and minerals, to help prevent childhood malnutrition in Guatemala.

Green Infrastructure

Exploring a Real-World Model of Sustainable and Circular Business in Pittsburgh

The Tower at PNC Plaza, a state-of-the-art high-rise in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, has achieved LEED Platinum status, the highest certification awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Research, Reports & Publications

Infographic: Arrow Electronics 2018 Global Impact Statistics

Arrow CSR partner organizations supported nearly 14.7 million people on 6 continents— a 77% increase over 2017!

Media & Communications

Feeding the 9 Billion in Year 2050 Is a Great Challenge for Society

The United Nations Population Prospects 2019 tells us that there will be nine billion souls to feed on this Good Earth by year 2050 (up from seven billion-plus of us today).

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Winning Culture at Bacardi U.S.A. Inc. Makes It One of the Best Medium Workplaces in the Country

This is the second year Bacardi in the U.S. is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ and this reflects a strong corporate culture driven by being Fearless, treating each other like Family and thinking like Founders.

Innovation & Technology

Patch PDX: Sharing Our Culture of Community With Portland’s Tech Industry

How do we use technology to improve our communities? This is the question I and 80 of my peers from across the Portland tech community asked ourselves as we gathered in the Zones cafeteria earlier this month for Intel’s inaugural Patch PDX event.

Innovation & Technology

Spotlight on Arya Bairat: 17-Year Old Sustainable Inventor

At just 15 years old, Arya Bairat developed the EES Sustineri – a system that combines innovative technologies to provide a sustainable, cost-effective source of electrical power that could be used in almost any industry.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sycwin Coating & Wires Receives Lead Safe Paint® Certification for All Paint Brands

IPEN announced today that paint products manufactured by Sycwin Coating & Wires, Inc. (Sycwin), a leading paint manufacturer from the Philippines, have been certified under the Lead Safe Paint® standard.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Timberland Announces Partnership to Build Leather Supply Chain From Regenerative Ranches

Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland today announced a new partnership with Other Half Processing to build a responsible leather supply chain sourced from ranches that employ regenerative practices.

Energy

P&G Achieves a Significant 2020 Sustainability Goal Ahead of Schedule

We are proud to share that we are purchasing 100% renewable electricity in the U.S. and Canada, and extended it to Western Europe. These three markets are among our largest and represent over 70% of our purchased electricity, signifying a strong start to P&G’s Ambition 2030 goal of purchasing 100% renewable electricity globally by 2030.

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