ESG News from Leading Brands

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Diversity & Inclusion

Pride Month at AMD: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion Through Employee Engagement

In celebration of Pride Month, the Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) at AMD organized a series of events and initiatives that highlighted the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Whirlpool Corporation Volunteers and The Washing Machine Project Assembled 100 Manual Washing Machines in One Week

Last week the Whirlpool Foundation was joined by 70+ Whirlpool Employee volunteers, The Washing Machine Project (TWMP), and the suppliers central to making this work possible.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Duke Energy Foundation Powers Positive Change Over 40 Years

Over 40 years, the Foundation has become a philanthropic powerhouse, awarding over $500 million to more than 20,000 nonprofits.

Health & Healthcare

MetLife 2023 Sustainability Report: Promoting Financial Stability and Wellness

Part of building a more confident future is supporting our customers during difficult times, particularly when the health and wellness of their family is at stake. We strive to improve and evolve our products and services based on local market and customer needs.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Cisco: Building Bridges, Feeding People and Empowering Students: How New Technologies Are Changing Lives

Cisco invests in organizations around the world who are creating and delivering tech-enabled solutions that we believe can be scaled to drive significant social impact, and that can be sustained over the long-term.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Complimentary Webinar: Navigating New Norms: Retailer Requirements for Biodiversity and Pest Management

Join SCS Global Services and Measure to Improve for an insightful webinar on the evolving retailer requirements for fresh produce and floral supply chains. August 15, 2024 | 12:30 PM ET/9:30 AM PT

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mental Health Takes Center Stage in UK First Aide at Work Updates

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently updated its guidance on First Aid at Work (L74 document), placing a long-overdue emphasis on employee mental health.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Entergy Hosts Poverty Simulations To Help Employees Better Understand Customer Challenges

Poverty is a reality for many individuals and families. But unless one has experienced poverty, it’s difficult to truly understand.

Sustainable Development Goals

Where the Rubber Meets the Road on Localization

In January 2023, we published a blog on What Changes Local Partners Are Asking For, which highlighted a number of operational areas where local partners wanted CARE to shift our approaches to build better, more equal, partnerships.

Diversity & Inclusion

Leading with Humility: Meet Adam Warner

I am the Director of Field Marketing here at GoDaddy, focused primarily on our WordPress and web designer and developer solutions. Our team manages our Global WordPress event sponsorship and engagement and contributions to the WordPress opensource project and community.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist Foundation Increases Support for Southeastern Communities Impacted by Storm Debby

As storm Debby moves up the Southeastern coastline, Truist Foundation today announced it will donate an additional $100,000 to support relief and recovery efforts in impacted communities in South Carolina and North Carolina in anticipation of catastrophic flooding.

Events, Media & Communications

IWBI Announces Inaugural Healthy Building Policy Summit in Washington, D.C.

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), in partnership with Georgetown University’s Global Cities Initiative, is proud to host its inaugural Healthy Building Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. on September 16.

Environment

Veolia Strengthens Its Leadership in Ecological Transformation With the Validation of Its Accelerated Decarbonization Trajectory by SBTi

A few months after the launch of its new strategic GreenUp program, which plans to accelerate its decarbonization trajectory, Veolia has taken a significant new step in its climate strategy by obtaining the validation of its objectives by the Science Based Targets initiatives

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sofidel: Enterprises and Sustainable Finance

Public resources are not enough in the path toward the green transition and, therefore, private business investment becomes crucial to achieve some important goals such as countering the climate crisis and reducing inequality.

Sustainable Development Goals

American Airlines’ Commitment to a Low-Carbon Future: Ambitious Climate Goals and Collaborative Efforts

American has set what we believe are ambitious climate goals, and in 2022 we became the first airline globally to set externally validated, science-based 2035 greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets.

Education

Helping Families Have a Cyber Safe School Year

Norton has completed another year of working with the National PTA on The Smart Talk, a free resource that helps families have open conversations about Cyber Safety.

Research, Reports & Publications

Viatris 2023 Sustainability Report: Addressing the Global Burden of NCDs

In 2023, NCDs continued to dominate as the leading causes of death globally according to WHO, accounting for about 74% of all deaths. Of those approximately 41 million deaths, 77% occur in LMICs, adding to the dual burden of NCD and infectious disease.

Innovation & Technology

Managing Industrial Hygiene Risks in the Growing Data Center Construction Market

With the boom in data center construction, it is important to be aware of the industrial hygiene risks that come with building new data centers. This blog provides a list of potential IH risks and hazards and best practices for managing them.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Comcast NBCUniversal Teams Up With Exchange To Provide Service Members With Free Streaming of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Once again, service members and honorably discharged Veterans worldwide will enjoy free access to NBCUniversal’s full coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, courtesy of the Army & Air Force Exchange Service and Comcast NBCUniversal.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

AB Shortlisted in Nine Categories at the Investment Week Sustainable Investment Awards 2024

AllianceBernstein (AB) is honored to have been shortlisted in nine categories at the Investment Week Sustainable Investment Awards 2024.

Diversity & Inclusion

Gracenote Highlights Inclusive-Focused Media Investment Opportunities for Ad Buyers

Gracenote released a new report quantifying the visibility of different racial, ethnic, gender and disability groups among primary cast in new 2024 TV programming on major streaming platforms and linear channels.

Environment

Ceres Celebrates Growing Bipartisan Support for the Inflation Reduction Act’s Clean Energy Incentives

Ceres applauds the public support from 18 Republican members of Congress led by Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) for preserving the clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, who made their case in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson today.

Diversity & Inclusion

GameChanger Launches New Program To Keep Kids Active in Youth Sports

According to the Aspen Institute, the average child today spends less than three years playing a sport, quitting by age 11. For some marginalized groups, it’s even earlier. This alarming trend underscores the need for initiatives encouraging children to continue participating.

Health & Healthcare

What Happens When Communities Unite To Fight Diabetes?

No one person, one group or one approach stands a chance against diabetes, a disease that threatens to sap the "quality" out of "quality of life" for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Elevating Manufacturer Voices at the Forefront of Sustainable Transformation

In this latest blog written by Lee Green, Senior Director of Marketing and Communications, at Cascale, he highlights the importance of manufacturer voices in addressing the complex issues facing our industry for a sustainable future.

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