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

Innovation & Technology

Bristol University Gets Funding for the World-first Construction Facility

The University of Bristol has received £12m for a state-of-the-art facility that will improve construction by reducing the environmental costs of high-value infrastructure projects.

Innovation & Technology

Introducing the 10 Founding Principles of the Kind City of the Future

Our goal was to create a set of crowd-sourced principles—the foundation for a more inclusive, empathetic, and empowering city. Ten big ideas, rooted in kindness, to propel us towards a better future.

Energy

Launching Your Energy Management Action Plan: An 8-step Roadmap

Corporations have the opportunity to meet the urgency of global climate health with measures that will both reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint. Learn more about how to implement an energy management action plan.

Diversity & Inclusion

Breaking the Bias This International Women's Day

We’re honoring many of our partners, including CARE, TIME, LISC, and Seneca Women, whose meaningful actions work to #BreaktheBias—not only on International Women’s Day, but every day.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

New Insights Into Chinese ESG

We were recently granted the opportunity to include data on hundreds of companies from one of the leading Chinese ESG analysis firms—SynTao Green Finance (STGF).

Responsible Production & Consumption

How Are We Minimizing the Environmental Footprint of Our Products?

From supporting the rise of electric vehicles, to enabling buildings that maximize use of renewables, or enhancing digital intelligence for more efficient power grids, our systems help our customers lower their costs and their carbon footprint.

Health & Healthcare

Why Improving Health Literacy Is Important

Improving health literacy – defined as a person’s ability to find, understand and use information and services to make health-related decisions for themselves and others – continues to be an important part of helping address the pandemic.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Griffith Foods | How We Collaborate to Blend Care and Creativity to Nourish the World

In just a few decades, we as an industry will be responsible for feeding an unprecedented 10 billion people – an impossible task to accomplish alone.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Here’s Why DuPont Performance Building Solutions and Corian® Design is Betting on Sustainability

We will partner with our customers and the industry to deliver innovative construction solutions that drive total carbon of buildings to zero, increase circularity of materials, and utilize safer chemistries, to realize our shared vision.

Health & Healthcare

How a Team of Boston Scientific Employees Is Supporting South Asian Communities

When the South Asians in Leadership (SAIL) employee resource group (ERG) at Boston Scientific launched its health camp initiative in India, their purpose was simple: give back to communities in need.

Diversity & Inclusion

Veteran SCE 'Groundman' Proves Women Are Up to the Task

Twenty-five years ago, Belinda Vasquez was a single parent attending Mt. San Antonio College, facing an uncertain financial future. She learned that Southern California Edison was recruiting women to work as entry-level meter readers.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named One of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2022

We are honored to have been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Investors Go Salmon Fishing With Climate Scientists

The global climate is an enormously complex system, and as climate change intensifies, damaging climate events are cascading from one another.

Environment

How Georgia-Pacific Supports Green Spaces

Georgia-Pacific is committed to bringing people together by providing access to public spaces.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Truist Foundation Partners With Connect Humanity To Advance the Internet Connectivity Space and Establish Digital Equity

Truist Foundation announced it has awarded a $10 million grant to Connect Humanity, a nonprofit focused on advancing digital equity among historically marginalized communities.

Energy

Ecocentricity Blog: The Economic Opportunities and Challenges of the Net-Zero Transition

McKinsey released a report exploring what a successful net-zero transition would entail. Decarbonizing our economies is worthwhile, but challenges are inherent in making the shift. A low-emission supply of energy must match shifts in demand.

Research, Reports & Publications

La TD établit des cibles provisoires d'émissions financées d'ici 2030 pour des secteurs à émissions élevées, à savoir ceux de l'énergie et de la production d'électricité

La TD établit des cibles provisoires d’émissions financées d’ici 2030 pour des secteurs à émissions élevées, à savoir ceux de l’énergie et de la production d’électricité.

Diversity & Inclusion

Inspiring the Next-Generation of Women Leaders: Year Three of Applied's Generation Girl Initiative

Applied Materials is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion where employees are valued and supported. Through Generation Girl we look to the future of tech and our role in developing the next generation of Black and Latinx women leaders.

Environment

TD Sets 2030 Interim Financed Emissions Targets for High-emitting Sectors: Energy and Power Generation

TD sets 2030 interim financed emissions targets for high-emitting sectors: Energy and Power Generation. Scope 3 targets represent a significant step forward as TD progresses on its path to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Sands Donates $300,000 to Further Responsible Gaming Research and Education

In February, Las Vegas Sands provided $300,000 in funding to the International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG) to support the nonprofit organization’s ongoing research and education on gambling disorder and responsible gaming.

Research, Reports & Publications

Essity Publishes Campaign Sustainability Report 2021

Hygiene and health company Essity is today publishing its Annual and Sustainability Report for 2021 on www.essity.com.

Research, Reports & Publications

Release of New Book, the Sustainable Business Handbook, Helps Build a Global Movement for Sustainable Business

'The Sustainable Business Handbook: A Guide to Becoming More Innovative, Resilient and Successful' is an intensely practical, step-by-step, how-to guide on identifying impacts, defining organisational purpose and making the business case for action.

Social Impact & Volunteering

T. Rowe Price Promotes Opportunity for All in the Community

Our approach to supporting community focuses on expanding opportunities for everyone. By partnering with nonprofits, we work to empower youth, inspire change agents, and find equitable solutions that drive social good.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Crop Science: Shorter Corn May Be the Answer

Shorter corn is less likely to snap in high winds, helping farmers reduce crop loss and make the most of available resources including land, water and energy.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Wins “Best Cause-Related Video” Highlighting Work in Social Responsibility

Whirlpool Corporation is a proud winner of the “Best Cause-Related Video” in Ragan Communications’ Video, Visual & Virtual Awards for our House+Home video, because our responsibility to the communities in which we work is so important to who we are.

Latest Campaigns

  1. Subaru Love Promise: Community
    Subaru is dedicated to supporting those who need it the most in our communities. From donating food to Feeding America, providing essential items to...
  2. Products We Sell
    At your neighborhood Albertsons Companies stores, you’ll find a growing selection of foods and household items under brands we created with your...
  3. Building a Sustainable Future | Decarbonizing the Built Environment
    The building sector accounts for nearly 40% of carbon emissions and nearly 50% of the consumption of natural resources. The industry stands at a...
  4. Environmental Sustainability
    As sustainability leaders, we implement our sustainability strategy across all company activities along the entire value chain, from raw materials to...
  5. FedEx | Delivering for Good
    Doing what we do best for those who need it most. When disaster strikes, and there’s not a moment to lose, our people mobilize the FedEx global fleet...
  6. Key Supports Affordable Housing
    KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment helps fulfill Key’s purpose to help clients and communities thrive by financing projects that...
  7. AEG's Commitment to Sustainable Operations
    AEG's sustainability initiatives are designed to reduce our consumption of the planet’s limited resources. Through our comprehensive sustainability...
  8. Key Supports Affordable Housing
    KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment helps fulfill Key’s purpose to help clients and communities thrive by financing projects that...
  9. Planet We Share
    Great food isn’t possible without a healthy planet. We’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint and nurturing the environment. As part of our...
  10. Environmental Sustainability
    As sustainability leaders, we implement our sustainability strategy across all company activities along the entire value chain, from raw materials to...
  11. Aflac Voices
    Hear from Aflac’s senior leaders and subject matter experts about industry trends and more.
  12. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  13. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  14. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  15. Kingfisher Around the World
    The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...