ESG News from Leading Brands

Environment

How Local Municipalities May Be Passing Ordinances That Could Cost Your Railroad Money

Apr 29, 2019 11:55 AM ET

Railroads can protect themselves from exorbitant stormwater fee ordinances that are being considered by local municipalities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

National Park Waste Reduction Efforts Receive $2.1 Million Donation From 2018 Subaru Share the Love® Event

Apr 29, 2019 11:50 AM ET

The National Park Foundation has announced that Subaru raised $2.1 million for national parks through its 2018 Subaru Share the Love® Event. This donation enables the National Park Foundation to support waste reduction efforts and enhance public awareness and engagement across our National Park System.

Events, Media & Communications

Conversations with Consequence: Metrics and Sustainability at Innovation Forum Detroit

Apr 29, 2019 11:30 AM ET

Social Impact & Volunteering

Bringing the Value of Partnership to Life

Apr 29, 2019 11:15 AM ET

Last year, Comcast NBCUniversal helped Easterseals of Southeastern Pennsylvania create four makerspaces for our service centers in the Philadelphia area. Makerspaces provide 3D printers, materials and templates that enable staff and families to print solutions to every day challenges – making the world more accessible one switch, adaptive tool, or toy at a time!

Environment

Can What We Buy Help Save Forests?

Apr 29, 2019 10:25 AM ET

Innovation & Technology

Rewarding Careers for Women in Tech

Apr 29, 2019 10:15 AM ET

Unicorn Author and web developer Acacia Carr shares her journey as a self-employed web developer as well as highlights rewarding careers for women in tech

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Alliance Data and Roadrunner Food Bank: Transforming Data Through Technology

Apr 29, 2019 9:20 AM ET

Alliance Data expanded its partnership with Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico through a significant data-for-good investment that will revolutionize the way the food bank operates and serves its clients. Almost 16 percent of the diverse New Mexico population is food insecure. Roadrunner serves all 33 New Mexican counties across the state—with the majority of people living in rural areas—making it increasingly difficult to distribute food to those in need.

Research, Reports & Publications

Why 2019 Is the Year of Stakeholder Trust

Apr 29, 2019 9:00 AM ET

In 2019, the question of how to build and retain stakeholder trust—among investors, regulators, customers, suppliers, civil society organizations, and the general public—is the most pressing challenge facing business.

Environment

Interview With Rob Ivanovic, SCADA Systems Expert

Apr 29, 2019 9:00 AM ET

Rob Ivanovic is a senior engineering project manager with 20 years of experience in water treatment, wastewater treatment, and water distribution involving SCADA and DCS planning, design, programming, implementation, and testing. He has managed numerous engineering, construction, configuration, and start-up projects. His expertise includes identifying stakeholders, defining scope management plans with cost and labor baseline estimates, scheduling and coordinating project activities, planning risk management, tracking work progress, forecasting labor requirements, and producing compliance reports.

Research, Reports & Publications

Focus on Gas and Petrochemicals in the Transition to Low Carbon Future

Apr 29, 2019 9:00 AM ET

On April 18, 2019, OMV, the international integrated oil and gas company based in Vienna, published its 14th Sustainability Report. The OMV Sustainability Report provides a detailed overview of the company's sustainability performance, along with its activities, achievements and challenges.

Environment

Fisk Johnson Raises Awareness of Deforestation, Continuing Longstanding Commitment to Global Forest Protection

Apr 29, 2019 8:45 AM ET

Forest protection has been a focus for SC Johnson for generations. Now, the company's Chairman and CEO, Fisk Johnson, is shining a spotlight on the topic in his ongoing effort to raise awareness of global environmental issues like deforestation and ocean plastic.

Environment

Reducing GHG Emissions: From Seed To Shelf

Apr 29, 2019 8:00 AM ET

Research, Reports & Publications

Citi Releases 2018 Global Citizenship Report

Apr 29, 2019 5:00 AM ET

Citi today released its 2018 Global Citizenship Report, highlighting efforts made in the last year to responsibly provide financial services that enable growth and progress. This report and related summary includes numerous examples of how, through our core business and with the philanthropic efforts of the Citi Foundation, we are helping address complex and pressing issues such as climate change, the affordable housing crisis in the U.S., youth unemployment, diversity in business and financial independence for women.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe join Consortium founded by Carbios and L’Oréal to support the world’s first enzymatic technology for the recycling of plastics.

Apr 29, 2019 4:30 AM ET

Carbios and L’Oréal previously founded the Consortium to bring enhanced recycling technology designed and developed by CARBIOS to market on an industrial scale. Committed to supporting sustainable development with innovative solutions, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe are joining the Consortium to help support the circular plastics economy using Carbios’ breakthrough enzyme-based enhanced recycling technology.

Diversity & Inclusion

How Bloomberg Is Amplifying Women’s Voices in the Middle East

Apr 26, 2019 4:55 PM ET

There’s little question that women are underrepresented in the global media sector. While companies say they are improving on this, a quick flipping of the channels on cable television often reveals man after man after man at the anchor desk—particularly in the business and finance media world.

Health & Healthcare

A Vaccine for E. coli? Meet a Researcher Hot on the Trail

Apr 26, 2019 4:10 PM ET

Think of "E. coli," and you probably picture outbreaks of foodborne illnesses that can cause severe stomach cramps, vomiting and more. After all, certain strains of the bacterium are among the most common and potentially lethal causes of food poisoning.

But there are other strains of E. coli. Some are harmless gut bacteria, but others—specifically, Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC)—are dangerous, and even fatal, particularly if you're an older adult. And due to rising antimicrobial resistance, the antibiotics used to fight dangerous infections caused by ExPEC, like bacteremia, which occurs when bacteria enters the blood, and sepsis, the body's extreme and dangerous reaction to infection, are becoming less effective.

Responsible Production & Consumption

HP Singapore: Make-IT-Green Campaign

Apr 26, 2019 2:00 PM ET

HP Make IT Green Campaign, which kicked off in January 2018, had set a goal of collecting 50,000kg in used personal computers, laptops and display monitors at six community centres and 24 schools here.

Environment

Where Are We Now? This Earth Week, How Mars Is Working to Better Serve the Planet

Apr 26, 2019 1:15 PM ET

This year for Earth Week, Mars is taking a look back at some of the Healthy Planet projects we’ve embarked on since launching our Sustainable in a Generation Plan in 2017, and how they make a difference where we live, work and source our materials.

Diversity & Inclusion

Celebrating World Intellectual Property Day

Apr 26, 2019 1:10 PM ET

Over the past twenty-five years at Kimberly-Clark, I’ve been privileged to see the power that intellectual property has to grow our business. And while most of our patented innovations are found on shelves around the world, much of Kimberly-Clark’s IP development occurs behind the scenes.

Environment

eBay for Charity Partners with Bill Nye, Ellen DeGeneres and Little Sun to Celebrate Earth Month

Apr 26, 2019 1:00 PM ET

In celebration of Earth Day, eBay is shining a spotlight on the environment with a newly launched Earth Month campaign alongside Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Nye, and social business Little Sun to raise funds and support various environmental issues including global conservation efforts for space science exploration, women in the aerospace industry, endangered species and universal access to clean energy.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Tomorrow's Capital Podcast - Episode 1: The Mainstreaming of ESG

Apr 26, 2019 12:55 PM ET

Bloomberg's Global Head of Sustainable Business & Finance Curtis Ravenel joined Nasdaq's Tomorrow's Capital Podcast and discussed the mainstreaming of ESG, the future of the industry and our work on the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

Diversity & Inclusion

Gender Equality: Closing the Gap in the Private Sector Around the World

Apr 26, 2019 12:40 PM ET

Let’s be honest, in the world of development, the private sector has not always been our partner of choice in the race to achieve gender equality. There has been a perception that business actions in this area are merely front-line measures or meagre efforts that simply impose quotas on boards of directors. These assumptions are today less and less accurate. Indeed, the private sector is increasingly interested in this issue because it makes business sense, and the time has come for governments and donors to move closer to the private sector in order to enhance their impact on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Energy

Smithfield Foods and RAE Partner to Produce Renewable Energy while Restoring Missouri’s Natural Environment

Apr 26, 2019 12:40 PM ET

Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) have formed a joint venture called Monarch Bioenergy to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) across Smithfield’s hog farms in Missouri. This partnership converts manure collected from Smithfield farms into RNG, while simultaneously delivering ecological services and developing wildlife habitat. Once complete, all Smithfield company-owned finishing farms in Missouri will have the infrastructure to produce RNG, resulting in approximately 1.3 million dekatherms of RNG annually, which is the equivalent to eliminating 130,000 gasoline vehicles.

Environment

Taking a Stand Against Ocean Pollution

Apr 26, 2019 12:30 PM ET

Legg Mason and Jupiter Asset Management joined forces to co-sponsor a run on April 11th in Stockholm, Sweden, to benefit Plastic Oceans, a pioneer in the fight against plastics in our seas.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

GM Earns ‘Biggest Loser’ Recognition in the Michigan Battle of the Buildings

Apr 26, 2019 12:00 PM ET

General Motors has won the title of 2018 Biggest Loser in the Michigan Battle of the Buildings competition for its energy and water reduction efforts at three Michigan sites. Over 1,000 buildings across the state competed in the year-long energy and water reduction competition hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council of West Michigan (USGBC-WM).