ESG News from Leading Brands

Keep up with the latest environmental, social and governance news from companies embracing the triple bottom line, shared via 3BL's distribution platform.

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

International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) Kicks Off Global Awareness Push: Investing in Health Pays Back

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the world’s leading organization focused on deploying people-first places to advance a global culture of health, announced today the launch of a yearlong awareness effort designed to help arm advocates and practitioners alike.

Research, Reports & Publications

Cintas Corporation Releases Its 2022 ESG Report

Cintas Corporation has published its 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, which details the company’s ESG Journey, performance and initiatives from the last fiscal year.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Inside the World of CSR Leaders: Sam Caplan, Vice President of Social Impact at Submittable

We’re profiling CSR and social impact leaders to engage their insights into how CSR is transforming and what inspired them to follow this path.

Sustainable Development Goals

UN Global Compact Network USA Helps US Companies Elevate Their Sustainable Development Goals Agenda

The US private sector is critical for generating much-needed solutions globally. Agenda 2030 envisions a secure world free of poverty, hunger and an end to environmental degradation, and achieving this will require companies to increase their ambition on the SDGs.

Diversity & Inclusion

Principal® Foundation To Sponsor EVERFI Black History Month Challenge

Principal® Foundation is inviting high school students across the U.S. to participate in the Black History Month Challenge for a chance to win a college scholarship. The challenge was created by EVERFI, an innovator in digital social impact education.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Paychex Named Among FORTUNE’s Most Admired Companies in 2023

Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, has again been named one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE® magazine.

Events, Media & Communications

Mastercard Launches She Runs This Program Celebrating Entrepreneurship for Black Women in Business and Hip-Hop During GRAMMY® Week

Today, Mastercard announced it will host She Runs This: Celebrating Entrepreneurship in Business and Hip-Hop, a three-day event in partnership with Femme It Forward, honoring the genre’s 50th anniversary as part of the brand’s programming during GRAMMY® Week.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Purpose 360: A Force for Good and Growth With Procter & Gamble

We invited Damon Jones, Chief Communications Officer at Procter & Gamble, back to Purpose 360 to talk about how P&G leverages storytelling to drive change for the environment and society.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

element6 Dynamics and Ingram Content Group Announce Strategic Supplier Relationship for Industrial Hemp-Based Paper

element6 Dynamics today announced that Ingram Content CEO and President Shawn Morin has been appointed to the element6 Dynamics Board of Directors.

Environment

Is landscape Approach the Way Forward for Sustainable Agriculture?

Sustainable landscape management or Landscape Approach has been a major topic of national and international policy discourse in recent years.

Diversity & Inclusion

Medtronic Continues To Make Significant Advances as an Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Leader

Medtronic named to the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) the same week the company publishes its Global Inclusion, Diversity & Equity 2022 Annual Report

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Named to Bloomberg Gender Equality Index for Fifth Consecutive Year

Illumina has been included in the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the fifth consecutive year. The distinguished index rates over 11,000 public companies and selects the top 500 committed to supporting gender equality in the workplace.

Environment

Sustainability Trends 2023: Goodbye Greenwashing, Hello Business Results

This year’s forecast of sustainability trends looks like the perfect storm (in a good way) of purpose-minded, yet business opportunity-led progress.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Kids Foundation 2023 Garden Grant Application Window Open Now

Whole Kids Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving children’s nutrition and wellness, has opened its annual Garden Grant window to offer financial support to schools that wish to start or expand edible education spaces.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Herbalife Nutrition Foundation Launches First Casa in Mongolia; Donates $15,000 to Veloo Foundation

The Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF) launched its first Casa in Mongolia and donated $15,000 USD to Veloo Foundation’s “Children of the Peak” Kindergarten, the new Casa Herbalife Nutrition Partner.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Wesco Is Ranked Among America’s Best-Managed Companies

Wesco was ranked #173 on the Top 250 Best-Managed Companies of 2022, as selected by The Drucker Institute and published in The Wall Street Journal. Our ranking climbed 8.9 points over last year and was the largest gain within the Industrial Goods sector.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Entergy Recently Recognized As Sustainability Leader

Recent recognition of Entergy’s leadership in environmental, social and governance performance demonstrates the company’s commitment to creating sustainable value for all its stakeholders.

Diversity & Inclusion

SkysTheLimit.org (“Sky’s the Limit”) Offers New Resources for Black-Owned Businesses This Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month, SkysTheLimit.org highlights new mentorship and educational opportunities for entrepreneurs wishing to advance their business goals in 2023.

Energy

Raven SR, Chevron and Hyzon Motors Collaborate To Produce Hydrogen From Green Waste in Northern California

Raven SR Inc., Chevron New Energies, and Hyzon Motors Inc. today announced they are collaborating to commercialize operations of a green waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Richmond intended to supply hydrogen fuel to transportation markets in Northern California.

Diversity & Inclusion

Doing The Right Thing: The Home Depot’s Chief Diversity Officer Derek Bottoms Talks Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Home Depot is building a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization, within our enterprise and the communities we are proud to serve. Grounded in our core values, we have the conviction, capabilities and tools to make a difference for our associates.

Innovation & Technology

Cummins To Showcase Lower Carbon Engines to Construction Industry

Global power technology leader Cummins Inc. will showcase its new fuel-agnostic 15-liter engine platform to reduce carbon emissions at North America’s largest construction trade show later this year.

Environment

The History of Steelmaking, and Why It Has a Long Way Yet To Go

Humans have been making steel for more than two millennia. In its modern form and scale though, steel is responsible for a significant portion of annual carbon dioxide emissions. That industry will need to adopt a range of technologies and practices to reduce its impact.

Education

Beijing Olympic Museum Becomes Newest Member of the Olympic Museums Network

The Beijing Olympic Museum (BJOM), which commemorates both the Olympic Summer Games 2008 and the Olympic Winter Games 2022, has joined the global Olympic Museums Network (OMN) as its 33rd member.

Health & Healthcare

The Partnerships Changing How You Manage Diabetes

There’s new energy around connecting — whether among people or technologies — thanks to the not-so-distant pandemic lockdowns that reminded the world why relationships matter.

Education

STEM Careers Coalition Offering Educators No-Cost Resources To Celebrate Black STEM Leaders During Black History Month

The STEM Careers Coalition™ – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – presents a curated collection of no-cost content celebrating the careers of Black leaders in STEM.

Latest Campaigns

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