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Google, BMW, Disney, Microsoft Once Again Top List of Best CSR Reputations
Reputation Institute has released its annual Global CSR RepTrak® 100, which highlights the companies that have the best reputations for corporate social responsibility (CSR) among the general public in...
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Climate Week: B Team Reminding Business, World Leaders of Undeniable...
Today The B Team, comprised of leaders of some of the world’s largest companies, is calling on governments and businesses alike to aim for net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 or before, building...
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Keurig’s K-Cups Inch Closer to Being 100% Recyclable
Keurig Green Mountain Inc. is making progress towards its goal of making all K-Cups recyclable by 2020. Following successful recycling research trials, the company has unveiled plans to transition the...
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Aiming Higher: 5 Deeper Issues Missing from the Climate Week Conversation
Climate Week NYC, now in its 7th year, kicked off this week with high hopes of energizing companies, governments, academia and civil society to lead us to a low-carbon future. With more than 150 events...
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BASF’s Creator Space Tour Heading to Shanghai to Explore Future Urban Living
Leading scientists and urban planning experts will gather at BASF’s Creator Space™ Science Symposium on November 10 and 11, 2015, in Shanghai, China to share the latest insights into the area of...
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Climate Week: Climate Neutral Now, RE100 Initiatives Recruit Fortune 500...
Two initiatives for reducing businesses’ impacts on the environment have attracted globally recognized brands this week at Climate Week NYC.On Tuesday, the United Nations (UN) announced a new...
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One Year After New York Declaration on Forests, Report Identifies Companies...
Several dozen companies that endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests at 2014’s United Nations Climate Summit are taking concrete steps to eliminate commodity-driven deforestation from their supply...
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CDP: Threefold Increase in Companies Disclosing Carbon Price from 2014
Big brands across all industries are now assigning a carbon price to offset the costs and risks of their GHG production: Companies reporting that they price their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through...
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Mars, Avery Dennison to Confer with US Forest Owners on Challenges of...
For the first time ever, family forest owners and well-known marketplace brands will connect and discuss their respective needs and challenges related to sustainable forest management. Mars Inc.,...
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Conceptual Water Company's Bottles Are as Empty as California's Reservoirs
Designer Chris Onesto created California Water Company to highlight the state’s historic drought. The company’s water bottles are only about 6 percent full, to reflect the current capacity of...
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Why a Circular Economy Is Key to Sustainable Development (and Why Business...
This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post, "What's Working: Sustainable Development Goals," in conjunction with the United Nations'Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). The proposed...
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Avery Dennison Announces Ambitious Targets, Including at Least 26% Fewer...
Labeling and packaging leader Avery Dennison Corporationreleased its latest sustainability report earlier this month, which announced several new goals. Foremost among these goals is the company’s plan...
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Climate Week: State and Regional Governments to Cut to GHG Greater Than US...
The leaders of state and regional governments, spanning North and South America, Europe and Australia, on Tuesday announced collective climate targets that would save 7.9 gigatons of equivalent carbon...
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How Much Are Divestment Pledges Worth? No One Really Knows
On Tuesday, Divest-Invest proudly announced that “Fossil fuel divestment pledges surpass $2.6 trillion.” However, as Tim McDonnellreported on Mother Jones, that “flashy number” might be a little...
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VW Scandal a Jolt to 'CSR' That Reaches Far Beyond the Auto Industry
What started as a sordid tale of Volkswagen rigging half a million cars with “defeat device” software has snowballed into a global scandal as the German automaker later admitted 11 million of its cars...
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Study: Millennials Are Strongest CSR Supporters in U.S.
Millennials are universally more engaged in corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts, according to new research from Cone Communications. This includes everything from buying products associated...
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Karma Marketing: Crossing Buddhism with Business to Tout Need for a...
In a world dominated by the pursuit of higher short-term credit, it is not common to hear an appeal to the moderation of companies. That is why the intervention of brand and sustainability consultant...
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Closed Loop Fund Reveals First Three Investments That Aim to Transform U.S....
Today, the Closed Loop Fund, an impact investment fund that makes below-market loans to recycling companies and municipalities for recycling infrastructure, announced its first three investments to...
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NIKE Commits to 100% Renewables, Partners With MIT Climate CoLab on Materials...
As part of NIKE, Inc.’s goal to reduce its environmental footprint and enable business growth, the company announced two efforts today aimed at furthering that commitment: a collaboration with the...
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#BusinessCase: Sustainability Initiatives Have Saved PepsiCo Over $375M Since...
The water, energy, packaging and waste-reduction initiatives have been tallied up, and PepsiCo, Inc. asserts that its environmental sustainability initiatives have saved the company more than $375...
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