Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2025

Three determining factors The adoption in 2006 of quotas for Qubecs state-owned companies certainly helped create an environment conducive to greater female representation among Qubec issuers. What accounts for this greater openness?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So that’s exactly what we did in 2006 – launching two initiatives to store essential nutrition and healthcare products at clinics and food banks in advance of hurricane season. In the first year of the partnership in 2006, the Direct Relief modules contained only Abbott products.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2025

Since its launch in 2006, purchases of over 2.7 In addition to traditional green bonds and loans from banks, funding structures for energy upgrade projects are being utilized including Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and Energy/efficiency as a Service (EaaS). According to an article in Urban Land Magazine, an estimated $1.5

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Since 2006, the program has assisted over four hundred young people in transforming their lives and communities through training, community service, and sustainable wage jobs. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $190.1

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bank company blog Lisa Gutierrez is a Nor Cal resident to the core, but her passion for communities across the country in her day-to-day work is second to none. “I Bank branch in Folsom, California, during college and has since grown her career in the banking industry living and working in the town where she was raised, Sacramento. “In

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James Militzer

AUGUST 31, 2023

He initially emphasized credit, both in his public statements and his early work with Grameen Bank, and in doing so revealed a previously invisible market for loans amongst the world’s poor women. A few weeks later, I saw Abed at the 2006 Microcredit Summit Campaign meeting in Canada, and I noticed he seemed under the weather.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2023

From 2002 to 2006, Brock was part of the 1st Battalion, 8 th Marine Regiment at Camp LeJeune. The Alabama-based Regions Foundation, a nonprofit funded primarily by Regions Bank, has joined VEP’s network of support. The Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation funded primarily through contributions from Regions Bank.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Klier said: “South Pole has done a huge amount since 2006 to mobilise global climate action. In his new role, Klier will be responsible for further developing and institutionalizing South Pole’s renewed focus on exceeding industry risk, integrity and compliance standards and lead its next phase of growth.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Moreover, he was a lead author for the IPCC WGIII AR5 report (Industry chapter, waste section), IPCC WGIII AR6 report (Emissions drivers and trends), and the 2019 refinement for the IPCC 2006 Guidelines.

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3BL Media

APRIL 28, 2022

Since 2006, Walmart and Sam’s Club have been donating food to local Feeding America® member food banks, and this month marked a major milestone: We hit 7 billion pounds of food donated. Currently, $1 helps provide at least 10 meals secured by Feeding America® on behalf of local member food banks. pounds of food.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 16, 2022

In a highly symbolic move, she had the highway that ran along the left bank of the Seine converted into 4.5 In the 2006 referendum, a majority voted in favour of the charge, and public support for it has only grown since then. hectares of pedestrian-only greenspace. They realized the merits of fast roads over free roads.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

After earning her MBA, Chionuma landed at Morgan Stanley in 2006 as an Investment Banking summer associate. And my answer in 2006 was, ‘Yes.’ ”. Like many versatile executives at Morgan Stanley, Chionuma has served in various roles across divisions, from Investment Banking to Sales & Trading. Best of Many Worlds’.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2024

The North American members hail from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds and organizations including representatives from Bank of America, The Predistribution Initiative, Deloitte, Columbia Business School, and Oxfam America. In addition, the revision aims to better align the Standards with internationally agreed best practices.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

Ever since the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) first dropped a bombshell report on the “enormous” ecological impact of livestock farming back in 2006, the trillion-dollar global meat industry has been on the defensive. And Tyson isn’t the only one banking on planet-friendly meat to keep consumers coming back to the butcher.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 15, 2022

12+ billion credit extended in 2006. $2+ For some of our members, Oportun may be their first banking or lending experience. Our suite of seven consumer product offerings helps us address our members’ multiple financial needs with borrowing, savings, banking, and investing tools. SOURCE: Oportun. Our Impact. $12+

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3BL Media

APRIL 26, 2024

I started as a cashier and sales associate and then got promoted to “key holder,” which meant I got to do returns. The discounts were amazing! United States 2008-2009: Deputy Speakers Director and Talent Liaison United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.,

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James Militzer

MAY 9, 2022

In light of this persistent challenge, Grameen Foundation has worked to increase women’s employment as Business Correspondents (BCs) – retail agents engaged by banks to provide banking services at locations other than a bank branch or ATM – through our Grameen Mittras program. McCourtie / World Bank.

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3BL Media

MARCH 14, 2022

As a passionate women's advocate, Helene has been actively involved in SAIC's women’s groups since they originated in 2006. Helene enjoys supporting community organizations such as Mama’s Kitchen and the San Diego Food Bank. naval surface ships. She holds a training certificate from the Association for Talent Development.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2023

France engaged in a similar swap with Cameroon in 2006, offering $25 million in debt relief in exchange for a pledge to protect forests in the Congo River Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest and home to thousands of animal species. Each of these challenges must be tackled head-on.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Federal Reserve chose to fix the problem by raising the Federal Funds interest rate from 1.00% to 5.25% between June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2006. 1] The 2004 to 2006 interest rate hikes didn’t lead to lower oil prices until after July 2008. Inflation in food prices was especially a problem. per barrel. per barrel.

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3BL Media

MARCH 19, 2024

This marks the 18th sustainability report from Owens Corning, which published its first report in 2006. “This report reflects the global scope of our people and our products and the many ways they work to make the world a better place.”

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Since 2006, Edison Scholars has awarded over $13.5 We’re hoping to inspire a new generation of diverse talent to pursue STEM careers and to make a difference in clean energy and indeed, in the world, while providing opportunities to our local youth and young adults. million in scholarships to 730 students. In 2022, we donated more than $3.4

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Gail Tverberg

JULY 5, 2022

If central banks cut back future energy supplies using higher interest rates, we can expect to encounter major problems going forward. 3] We can look back and see how rising interest rates were used to slow the world economy in the 2004 to 2006 period, and how different the economic situation was then compared to now.

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James Militzer

MAY 5, 2025

By the time microfinances pioneering practitioners, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the sector was widely seen as a promising perhaps even game-changing tool for poverty alleviation and global development.

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

According to Peru’s Ministry of Environment’s National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Peru (and the world) have lost an average of roughly 100,000 hectares of forest per year since 2006. In fact, they are banking on it. These losses have only accelerated.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 19, 2022

Rowe Price since 2006, beginning in the CFO Group in a corporate strategy role, and became head of Corporate Strategy in 2016. Coming out of college, I decided to join a training program for a bank where I got to meet a lot of business leaders as a commercial banking relationship manager. Jen has been with T.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 26, 2022

The firm then tracked the difference in returns generated by the portfolio’s polluting and clean companies between January 2006 and August 2021, using its climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and temperature anomaly indices – the former constructed by “focusing on the textual similarities of authoritative texts on climate change”. .

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3BL Media

MARCH 22, 2022

Since the effort began in 2006, the company has helped provide safe water access to approximately 68 million people, with a goal of reaching 100 million by 2030. Expanded Safe Water Access to Additional 8 Million People in 2021. To continue to advance this goal, the Foundation is granting $1.5

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The cumulative value of green bonds issued reached US$2.2

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Sustainability Update

APRIL 15, 2025

Since its launch in 2006, purchases of over 2.7 In addition to traditional green bonds and loans from banks, funding structures for energy upgrade projects are being utilized including Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and Energy/efficiency as a Service (EaaS). According to an article in Urban Land Magazine, an estimated $1.5

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), for instance, suggested that the organisation’s policy work could be more impactful if it reflected widely held signatory views on key responsible investment topic areas – such as stewardship and corporate governance.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

Good Natured Products Growth rate: 266% With its growing line of compostable food packaging, Vancouver-based Good Natured Products reports it has displaced 31 million pounds of petroleum-based plastics since 2006. Mangrove’s tech also provides more efficient recycling of lithium batteries. Carbon Engineering Growth Rate: 584% Squamish, B.C.–based

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Non-profit B Lab, founded in 2006, bestows certification on companies which meet its high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.? . Mutual benefits . B Corps are required to act in “ways that benefit society as a whole”, pursuing “social and environmental good”, and not “just profits”.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2018

In 1975 India, along with UNICEF and the World Bank, launched the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, which became the world’s largest village-level nutrition program. In 2006, Mason et al. The case of India demonstrates that economic growth, accompanied by increased food production, is not enough to end hunger.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 16, 2025

Image: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr. The first commitments to this international agreement were made in 2006, and its current aim is the “effective management” and conservation of 30 per cent of the land and 50 per cent of the marine areas of Micronesia by 2030. Find out more and join us. Inequality 11.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Since its launch in 2006, a significant portion of the global investment industry has signed on to the United Nations–backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Disclosure defines the problem, action is required to address it,” said Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada, during his plenary address at the conference.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Brookfield Asset Management announced the acquisition of Banks Renewables, one of the UK’s largest independent developers and operators of onshore wind farms from Northeast England-based family-owned business Banks Group. According to media reports, the deal values Banks Renewables at nearly $1 billion.

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