ESG News from Leading Brands

Environment

National Geographic Channel's Upcoming Series Highlight the Power of Storytelling to Change the World

Mar 16, 2016 11:00 AM ET

On March 15, 21st Century Fox's National Geographic Channel unveiled its slate of new shows for the 2016-2017 season, with each series delivering on the channel's commitment to premium content from the world's best storytellers. The slate includes "Mars," a six-part event series from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer about the science behind a manned mission to Mars, as well as the climate change documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously" and the unique live documentary event "Earth Live!" The new shows build on the legacy of the National Geographic brand and demonstrate the channel's unique ability to use storytelling to change the world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

NAEM Launches New EHS & Sustainability Software Satisfaction Benchmark

Mar 16, 2016 10:40 AM ET

Today the National Association for Environmental Management (NAEM) announced the launch of the EHS & Sustainability Software Ratings Project, a new research initiative to evaluate customer satisfaction with commercial software systems.

Environment

Getting Our Hands Dirty - Real Sustainable Agriculture

Mar 16, 2016 10:35 AM ET

Learn about the fast growing movement of Slow Money and how it is investing in sustainable agriculture -- join us as we get back down to the earth, grounded in the soil where we grow our food and sustain our planet and its many living systems.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful Launches 2016 Great American Cleanup; Encourages Family and Friends to ‘#cleanYOURblock’

Mar 16, 2016 10:30 AM ET

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading nonprofit that envisions a country where every community is a green, clean and beautiful place to live, today announced the launch of the 2016 Great American Cleanup. Entering its 18th year, the Great American Cleanup is the country’s largest community improvement program.

Diversity & Inclusion

Antea Group Wellness Program Profiled by Employee Benefit News

Mar 16, 2016 10:30 AM ET

Antea Group's employee wellness program takes a holistic approach, emcompassing the emotional, physical and financial aspects of well-being. The firm's recent efforts around mental health and stress management were recently featured in a piece in Employee Benefit News. The article spotlights the Learn to Live program of web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (or CBT) and the Vitality program, which incentivizes healthy behaviors.

Diversity & Inclusion

Advancing Gender Equality One Step at a Time

Mar 16, 2016 10:15 AM ET

Barclays employs many passionate people who, both in and out of work, are committed to advancing gender equality. James Bingham is one of them.

Environment

MGM Resorts Joins World Observance of Earth Hour 2016

Mar 16, 2016 10:00 AM ET

In honor of Earth Hour, MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) will dim the exterior lights at several of its resorts, joining the global effort to raise awareness of climate change.

Environment

Protecting Earth’s Resources Can Boost Personal Happiness, New Survey Finds

Mar 16, 2016 10:00 AM ET

Is renewable living the key to happiness? New data from Tetra Pak offers some compelling evidence that the answer is yes – great news leading up to International Day of Happiness on March 20.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

GRI Predicts New Formats for Sustainability Reporting and Real-Time Stakeholder Interaction

Mar 16, 2016 10:00 AM ET

Today, GRI released The Next Era of Corporate Disclosure: Digital, Responsible, Interactive, a digital publication that maps out the future of sustainability reporting and disclosure. According to GRI, the future will involve new formats with organizations moving from annual reports to sustainability data exchange, while focusing on major challenges like climate change and human rights. All of this will be coupled with a new role for stakeholders, who will be empowered by almost real-time interactions with companies. The Next Era of Corporate Disclosure is the culmination of the first year of GRI’s continuing Sustainability and Reporting 2025 project, and provides conclusive insights from these discussions.

Diversity & Inclusion

#WomensHistoryMonth at Cox Enterprises: Get to Know Maria Soklis

Mar 16, 2016 9:55 AM ET

In celebration of Women's History Month, female leaders from across Cox Enterprises are sharing insights from their experience throughout the month of March. Maria Soklis is president of Cox Automotive Canada.

Environment

Living Sustainability

Mar 16, 2016 9:30 AM ET

In this presentation (video*) Dr. Robin Kimmerer clearly and beautifully teaches us the relationship of living The Honorable Harvest to our quest to live in balance with Mother Earth; how to save ourselves by coming into relationship with Nature. She is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York (SUNY), College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Events, Media & Communications

The Balance Between REACH and Public Disclosure: Emerging Trends in the EU

Mar 16, 2016 8:10 AM ET

As European companies prepare to meet ongoing and new REACH registration requirements, one emerging theme being discussed at this week’s ChemCom Europe conference is having the ability to accurately trace and verify products and their components throughout the entire supply chain network.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Benevity Creates Nonprofit Community Council to Strengthen the Donor-Charity Ecosystem

Mar 15, 2016 8:30 PM ET

Benevity, Inc., the global leader in online workplace giving, matching, volunteering and grant management solutions, launched a council of thought leaders from the nonprofit space to help shape the way people and companies connect to charitable causes that matter to them.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Atender el Llamado del Alce

Mar 15, 2016 7:30 PM ET

En la entrega de hoy de nuestra serie de varias partes, compartimos con ustedes una historia de innovación social que se dio cuando nuestra mina Porcupine se comprometió con la comunidad local de las Primeras Naciones después de que un alce llegara varias veces hasta el pozo Dome.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

FLASH REPORT: Eighty One Percent (81%) of the S&P 500 Index Companies Published Corporate Sustainability Reports in 2015

Mar 15, 2016 7:30 PM ET

G&A Institute charted the rapid and significant uptake in corporate sustainability reporting among the 500 companies -- over the years, sustainability reporting rose from just 20% of the companies reporting in 2011 to 81% in 2015. This huge body of corporate reporting underscores the importance of setting strategies, measuring and managing ESG issues in response to growing stakeholder and shareholder expectations -- and in many cases, demands for such reporting, including information requests from major customers.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Heeding the Call of the Moose

Mar 15, 2016 7:30 PM ET

In today’s installment of our multi-part Get To Know Us Better series, we share with you a story of social innovation catalyzed when our Porcupine mine engaged with the local First Nations community after a moose repeatedly found its way into the Dome pit.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Répondre à l’appel de l’orignal

Mar 15, 2016 7:30 PM ET

Aujourd’hui, dans le cadre de notre série en plusieurs parties, nous partageons avec vous l’histoire d’une innovation sociale qui est le fruit d’une collaboration entre notre mine Porcupine et la communauté locale des Premières nations après qu’un orignal ait visité à plusieurs reprises la fosse Dome.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

ESG Accountability: A Tangible Way of Tracking Value

Mar 15, 2016 5:00 PM ET

During CECP’s recent Board of Boards CEO convening held on February 29th, 2016, CECP provided attending CEOs of the world’s largest companies with a comparison of financial and ESG performance, between companies that are affiliated with CECP (“CECP companies”) and other large companies in the Fortune 500 not affiliated with CECP (“non-CECP companies”). Discover with us the most compelling findings.

Diversity & Inclusion

World’s Largest Corporate Sustainability Initiative Says No to All-Male Panels

Mar 15, 2016 4:35 PM ET

United Nations Global Compact Executive Director Lise Kingo announced the UN Global Compact Panel Pledge, a new global effort to help put an end to all-male panels.

Social Impact & Volunteering

TWC Prepares to Open 20th Learning Lab in New York City

Mar 15, 2016 3:45 PM ET

Next month, Time Warner Cable will open its 20th Learning Lab at the Chinese-American Planning Council in Flushing, Queens. Our Learning Lab initiative provides underserved New York City residents with access to free WiFi and state of the art computers, through partnering with local nonprofits.

Health & Healthcare

Beware Hazards in Healthcare: New Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals

Mar 15, 2016 3:40 PM ET

Recently proposed EPA regulation provides a streamlined approach for healthcare facilities to better manage their hazardous pharmaceutical waste. To prepare for these changes, healthcare facilities, including manufacturers, distributers, pharmacies and retailers of pharmaceutical products in the USA will need to make operational adjustments around notification, training, record keeping and reporting.

Environment

Interstate Cooperation in the Clean Power Plan Live Webinar hosted by Bard CEP

Mar 15, 2016 3:15 PM ET

On March 16th, Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future will discuss interstate cooperation in the EPA's Clean Power Plan on Bard Center for Environmental Policy's live webinar series, National Climate Seminar. Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notable of which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introduce greater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act

Energy

UPS Invests $100 Million in Compressed Natural Gas, CNG Vehicles and Related Infrastructure

Mar 15, 2016 3:00 PM ET

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced plans to build an additional 12 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 380 new CNG tractors to its growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. The CNG fueling stations and vehicle purchases totaling $100 million are part of UPS’s ongoing commitment to diversify its fuel sources and reduce its environmental impact.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Investing: From Bugs to Biodrying

Mar 15, 2016 2:55 PM ET

The demand for sustainable investing has grown to the point where it vastly outstrips the supply of investment-ready projects. This imbalance is among the reasons why Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management founded this challenge in 2011. Each year, Kellogg and Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing present the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge, which can potentially pave the way to a career in sustainable finance for participants.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Bacardi’s Sustainability Program “Greens” Thousands of Employees

Mar 15, 2016 1:45 PM ET