ESG News from Leading Brands

Innovation & Technology

Letter to the G20: Why Digital Holds the Key to Meeting Global Challenges

Oct 18, 2021 12:45 PM ET

Education

Rockwell Automation Connected Enterprise Lab Opens at Cleveland State University

Oct 18, 2021 12:00 PM ET

Cleveland State University’s Washkewicz College of Engineering celebrated the grand opening of the Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) Connected Enterprise Laboratory on Sept. 28.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Johnson & Johnson Named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies List

Oct 18, 2021 12:00 PM ET

Time chose Johnson & Johnson for inclusion on its first-ever list of TIME100 Most Influential Companies. An extension of the TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people, the list singles out 100 companies positively impacting the world.

Innovation & Technology

Keysight Unveils Industrial Visibility Solutions for Electric Utility Market

Oct 18, 2021 11:00 AM ET

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a new series of Industrial Visibility solutions

Sustainable Development Goals

Workiva's Commitment to Building a Better Future

Oct 18, 2021 11:00 AM ET

As a cloud-based platform provider, our value chain is simple. It demonstrates the priority issues we identified in our materiality assessment, and where our business practices create value impact to our stakeholders and society in alignment with the UN Sustainability Development Goals.

Education

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 to 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Winners

Oct 18, 2021 10:35 AM ET

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation), and Discovery Education today announced the winners of the 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge.

Environment

What Facebook's Water-Positive Goal Means for Water-Stressed Communities

Oct 18, 2021 10:35 AM ET

About 95 percent of the western U.S. is now under drought conditions, and southwestern states — Arizona, Nevada and Utah, as well as parts of California, Colorado and New Mexico — are suffering a “megadrought” that has been building for over 20 years.

Diversity & Inclusion

Creating a Smarter, More Inclusive Future for All

Oct 18, 2021 10:30 AM ET

At Lenovo, we have a vision to provide smarter technology that builds a smarter, more inclusive future for our colleagues and communities.

Diversity & Inclusion

In Case You Missed It: Creating Equitable Access to Capital for Black-Owned Businesses

Oct 18, 2021 10:30 AM ET

Lynette Bell, president of Truist Foundation, spoke to the necessary relationship-building between banks and communities on the “Creating Equitable Access to Capital” panel for the Yelp annual Black in Business Summit.

Media & Communications

Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index 2021

Oct 18, 2021 10:00 AM ET

See key findings from the fifth edition of the Business Sustainability Risk and Performance Index: Insights from Global Supply Chain Ratings, which examines the sustainability performance of more than 46,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis during the period 2016-2020. All in a bite-sized infographic format.

Energy

PSEG Joins UN 'Race To Zero' Initiative, Commits to Setting Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets

Oct 18, 2021 10:00 AM ET

PSEG announced that it has joined the Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the Race to Zero campaigns and commits to developing science-based targets.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

UNPRI Delays Its Assessment Plan - A Sign of Things to Come?

Oct 18, 2021 10:00 AM ET

UNPRI is an investor network working to develop a more sustainable financial system, they have set a powerful precedent for the enforcement of sustainability agreements and recently have been improving their systems

Diversity & Inclusion

3M Joins SSGA Gender Diversity Index

Oct 18, 2021 10:00 AM ET

3M recently announced it will be included in the State Street Global Advisors’ (SSGA) Gender Diversity Index ETF.

Health & Healthcare

Celebrating the Science That Transforms Patients' Lives

Oct 18, 2021 10:00 AM ET

At BMS, we translate big ideas to scientific advances that transform patients’ lives by asking good questions, learning from experiments, leading clinical trials, and listening to patients at every step of the way.

Environment

First European Improved Forest Management Carbon Offset Project Achieves Independent Verification

Oct 18, 2021 9:00 AM ET

Global Forest Support GmbH (GFS) and SCS Global Services (SCS) announced the completion of validation and verification of the first European Improved Forest Management (IFM) carbon project under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)

Environment

Tetra Tech's Leslie Turner Discusses Providing Municipalities With Safe Drinking Water

Oct 18, 2021 9:00 AM ET

Leslie Turner has more than 20 years of experience in planning, permitting, design, project management, and construction management for water programs throughout the Southeastern United States.

Environment

Trane Technologies Healthy Spaces Podcast Season 2 Episode 2: Healthy Workspaces for Now. And Tomorrow.

Oct 18, 2021 8:45 AM ET

In this episode of Healthy Spaces with Trane Technologies, Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design, and Dr. Alberto Acosta, executive director of Medical Services at Trane Technologies, share some key lessons learned - and a way forward for employers and employees.

Green Infrastructure

River Trails School District 26 Awarded for Outstanding Energy Efficiency Commitments

Oct 18, 2021 7:45 AM ET

Trane® - by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator - has recognized the River Trails School District 26 in Mount Prospect, Illinois

Diversity & Inclusion

New Holland Agriculture Celebrates International Rural Women's Day

Oct 15, 2021 5:00 PM ET

CNH Industrial brand New Holland Agriculture is celebrating the United Nation’s International Day of Rural Women.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Illumina Named to Forbes World's Best Employer List

Oct 15, 2021 4:30 PM ET

We are proud to announce that Illumina has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Employer List for the first time.

Environment

Educating Girls: The Overlooked Solution to Climate Change

Oct 15, 2021 4:10 PM ET

Girl Rising partners with organizations like HP and 1Million Teachers to work with community-based educators and religious leaders to increase the number and capacity of home-grown educators to deliver learning to girls anywhere in the world.

Environment

Fifth Third Employees Recycle Nearly 8,000 Pounds of E-Waste at Recycling Events on Bank Campuses

Oct 15, 2021 4:00 PM ET

Employees of Fifth Third Bank recycled nearly 8,000 pounds of materials at two employee electronics waste events in September.

Environment

WSP USA Joins Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment to Net Zero

Oct 15, 2021 3:25 PM ET

In recognition of Climate Action Day, WSP has furthered its commitment to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, embodied carbon in its structural system projects by 2050 as a signatory to the Structural Engineering Institute SE 2050 Commitment Program.

Diversity & Inclusion

When Opportunity Knocks

Oct 15, 2021 3:15 PM ET

Miguel Cardenas was happily working & living in Mexico with his family in 2016, when some of his colleagues made the move to Kohler Co. Even though Miguel was happy with his employer of 13 years, he was soon persuaded to also take a chance on Kohler.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Qualcomm Provides Emergency Call Device To Promote Public Safety to the Gangnam Support Center for Family With Disability

Oct 15, 2021 2:45 PM ET

Gangnam Support Center for Family with Disability is distributing an emergency device embedded with a Qualcomm Technologies solution for the safety of the disabled in the local community.