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NYC Commits to Reduce Emissions 80% by 2050
In the spirit of this week, which has seen global leaders convening in New York City for the UN Climate Summit and more than 400,000 citizens filling the City’s streets for the People’s Climate March,...
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Unilever, UK Partner to Help 100 Million of the World's Poor by 2025
Unilever and the United Kingdom government are launching a joint initiative to use new social business models to improve health, hygiene and livelihoods for 100 million people by 2025. They will also...
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With New Product GHG Reduction Goal, HP Becomes First Global IT Company to...
As part of ongoing efforts to lower its carbon footprint across all phases of its business, HP has announced a goal to reduce the emissions intensity of its product portfolio(1) by 40 percent by 2020...
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#NewMetrics '14: LCA — Not Just for Carbon Footprinting Anymore
At a conference on New Metrics, it seems fitting to begin with a discussion of the current state of life cycle analysis (LCA), one of the earliest quantitative tools that practitioners had for...
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Why It's Time to Reframe the Role of Sustainability Leaders
My first big CSR/sustainability event was the 2010 Net Impact Conference - I had been invited there to speak on a panel on intrapreneurship, which gave me the opportunity to sit in on a number...
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#NewMetrics '14 Panel Dives Into #SocialFootprint Approach for Ensuring...
Thursday, the second afternoon at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’14 conference, featured a follow-up deep dive session into the topic of one of the morning’s well-received plenary presentations — how...
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#NewMetrics ’14: Catching Up with SASB
The third morning workshop on Wednesday, day one of New Metrics ’14, at MIT Sloan School of Business, gave us a closer look at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), its process and its...
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Plenaries Unveil Next-Gen Goal-Setting Frameworks, Groundbreaking Product...
It is no secret that markets are starting to demand a more complete picture of businesses' interactions with environmental and social realities of the world — a new, expanded set of success factors and...
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#NewMetrics ’14 Workshop Reveals Secrets to Effective Employee Engagement
There is a disconnect between what we are doing for the environment and how we are treating our people, and four thought leaders in integrating the two gathered Wednesday at New Metrics ‘14 to share...
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Sedex Launches Data Tool to Improve Responsible Supply Chain Reporting
Responsible supply chain specialist Sedex Global has announced the expansion of its services with the launch of Data Monitor, a new set of data analysis tools designed to meet the varied sustainability...
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#NewMetrics ’14: Increased Fears About Environment Not Reflected in Consumer...
National Geographic’s 2014 Greendex, released today by the National Geographic Society and GlobeScan, finds that concern about environmental problems has increased in most countries surveyed, and that...
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#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Explores Progress, Lessons, Challenges of Integrated...
This afternoon workshop on day 2 of #NewMetrics caught attendees up with the latest from early adopters of integrated reporting. Practitioners have always aimed to derive the best way to report status,...
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Hershey Updates Palm Oil Policy to Address Stakeholder Concerns
The Hershey Company has announced a new palm oil sourcing policy that updates and strengthens its commitment to source 100 percent traceable and responsible palm oil, a commitment the company announced...
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#New Metrics '14: The Next Frontier of ESG Research and Ratings
“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.” — Ben FranklinWhy should companies bother with ratings? They...
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Kellogg’s to Improve Productivity of 15,000 Smallholder Farmers Worldwide
Kellogg’s has announced a new commitment to enable improved productivity of 15,000 smallholder farmers in its agricultural supply chain, with a focus on rice, as well as support the reduction of...
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Unilever Pledges to Help 25 Million People Gain Improved Access to Toilets
Today, at the Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park, Unilever is announcing a commitment to help 25 million people gain improved access to toilets by 2020.The commitment is part of the...
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#NewMetrics '14: Kingsbury Navigates Vast Landscape of Tools, Imagines ‘Uber...
“Sustainability is about being multidisciplinary. If you only look at a narrow slice or issue, you will not find a sustained solution.”— Tony KingsburyChemical expert Tony Kingsbury’s Friday afternoon...
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#NewMetrics '14 Day 3 Highlights the Power of Consumers to Change Brands ......
Bill BaueThe final morning of Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’14 conference started with an invitation from MC Bill Baue, co-founder of the Sustainability Context Group, to imagine “what if?”...
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#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Showcases Tools for All of Your Data-Tracking,...
Straight through to the end of the final day, #NewMetrics ’14 continued to introduce ideas and tools for gathering intelligence from previously unavailable or unusable data, as panelists from all over...
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#NewMetrics ’14: Leveraging the World's Brains, Wallets, Data for Solutions...
There is power in the data that a crowd can provide — business- and future-shaping data. The final breakout session at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ‘14 conference in Boston highlighted definitions...
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