Corporate Knights

JANUARY 6, 2023

To meet today’s global sustainability challenges, the corporate world needs more than a few chief sustainability officers – it needs an army of employees , in all areas of business, thinking about sustainability in their decisions every day.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sustainability is core to advancing VMware’s impact, as we meet the innovation needs of our customers while also protecting the long-term resilience of our business, and the communities we serve. Adding more than 50 partners, including Google, AWS, Oracle, IBM, to the VMware Zero Carbon Committed program.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Walmart Hits Goal to Reduce 1 Billion Tons of Supply Chain Emissions 6 Years Ahead of 2030 Target Microsoft Signs Deal to Remove 350,000 Tonnes of Carbon Through Agroforestry Rio Tinto Signs Australia’s Largest-Ever (..)

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3BL Media

AUGUST 4, 2023

Last week, VMware’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Nicola Acutt, announced the publication of our 2023 ESG Report. This is the time of year when that impact is on full display as we continue reporting on our 2030 Agenda progress, sharing meaningful ESG impact — and I couldn’t be more excited about what we’ve accomplished.

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3BL Media

JUNE 29, 2022

“We are honored to release our second sustainability report that builds on Boeing’s family of reports already released this year and shares how our collective ESG efforts are contributing to our business and world,” said Chief Sustainability Officer Chris Raymond. Environmental Stewardship.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ewan Andrew, President, Global Supply & Procurement and Chief Sustainability Officer at Diageo, said: “All renewable energy options are important to us and we’d like to see Government and industry further accelerating the direct supply of green energy as a mainstream option.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For this purpose, we revitalized our Enterprise Sustainability Council (ESC), which assembles senior leaders across geographies and functions to foster collaboration, mobilize and steer execution for the firm through its working groups.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Similarly, CPPIB’s chief sustainability officer wrote in CPPIB’s 2023 Report on Sustainable Investing that “consensus has consolidated around the belief that the financial system should be empowered to finance the transition to a low-carbon future rather than mobilized to pursue a divestment agenda.”

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2022

And to help us decarbonize and grow, we plan to build the world’s first net-zero carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Alberta, Canada. million metric tons of certified low- to zero-carbon emissions polyethylene and ethylene derivatives. Our collective call to action is urgent.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Energy use and GHG emissions are a defining business issue and were identified through our materiality assessment as the most critical environmental topics for Southwire manufacturing operations, corporate offices, suppliers and customers. As a result, we prioritize efforts to help reduce GHG emissions across our value chain.

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ESG Today

MAY 18, 2023

Initiatives being pursued to address the climate impact of the industry typically involve efforts to improve aircraft efficiency, develop sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), or create aircraft utilizing low or zero carbon propulsion systems such as electric or hydrogen-based, although many of these are at early stages of development.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The new commitments follow the announcement last year by the company of pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions in its operations no later than 2040, and across its entire supply chain, products, and services no later than 2050. At the time, Ahold Delhaize said that it would provide more details on its Scope 3 plans within a year.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

In her new role, Constabile will drive Standard Chartered’s global sustainability strategy and will be responsible for managing key strategic initiatives for the Group, including overseeing net zero target setting, delivery of the bank’s commitments across scope 1, 2, and 3, and its ESG reporting and disclosures.

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3BL Media

APRIL 4, 2022

At Netting Zero, a virtual event series hosted by The New York Times , FedEx Chief Sustainability Officer Mitch Jackson addressed how the industry needs to be thinking about transportation and logistics in a post-Covid, net-zero carbon emissions world.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Initiatives being pursued to address the climate impact of the industry typically involve efforts to improve aircraft efficiency, develop sustainable aviation fuels, or create aircraft utilizing low or zero carbon propulsion systems such as electric or hydrogen-based, although many of these are at early stages of development.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2023

"Every product we engineer, every customer we support and every employee we empower brings us one step closer to a more sustainable, equitable and secure future,” said Nicola Acutt, Chief Sustainability Officer and VP of ESG at VMware.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today, they signed agreements to work together to study advanced sustainable technologies, including electric, hybrid, hydrogen and other novel propulsion systems in an endeavor to reduce the carbon footprint of aircraft.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2022

Boeing Chief Sustainability Officer Chris Raymond said: “There are multiple ways to a future where aviation has zero climate impact. We created Cascade on a foundation of credible data and analytical models to allow users to explore various pathways to net-zero.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

CDL is the only Singapore company represented at this roundtable leadership panel, with its Chief Sustainability Officer, Ms Esther An, participating alongside other senior executives from global MNCs. In 2021, CDL aligned itself with more ambitious carbon emissions reduction targets and commitments.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Chris Fox, chief sustainability officer for HanesBrands, attributes that progress to the effectiveness of the campaign’s messaging , which focuses on three benefits of cold water: better for your clothes, better for your wallet, and better for the environment.“

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“As one of America’s largest electric and gas utilities, we and many of our stakeholders share the view that we can take a leadership role in tackling the greenhouse gas emissions associated with our business and value chain,” said Duke Energy Chief Sustainability Officer Katherine Neebe. The company is a top U.S.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We see the far-reaching implications of climate change in our operations and sourcing regions,” said Ezgi Barcenas, chief sustainability officer, Anheuser-Busch InBev. Each product is more sustainable than the one before it, and metrics are key proof points.”. We are an agribusiness.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

For the UK to meet its legally binding commitment to move to a net zero carbon economy, huge changes are required. At a TPT event in February 2023, Rachel McEwan, Chief Sustainability Officer at the energy company SSE plc, said: “Achieving net zero is not some technocratic carbon accounting exercise.

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Just Capital

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The company has achieved a Net-Zero carbon footprint and is committed to sticking to that by mitigating the company’s entire carbon legacy and making progress on its verified 1.5-degree degree Net-Zero commitment. Workday ranks No. 1 in JUST Capital’s Rankings of Russell 1000 companies leading on Environment.

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3BL Media

JULY 20, 2022

Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President of Global Government Affairs. “As & Ireland and the University of Liverpool’s Zero Carbon Research Institute (ZCRI) in which ZCRI researchers are examining KFC U.K. and Canada. Entered a two-year partnership between KFC U.K.

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Just Capital

APRIL 14, 2023

Nike’s “ Move to Zero” goal to become both zero carbon and zero waste across its business is having concrete operational benefits. Nike’s Chief Sustainability Officer Noel Kinder on working with competitors to make the apparel industry more sustainable.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I've got history in sustainability, but I'm a business guy. What's your most important priority as a chief sustainability officer at this time? Carbon Pricing. "We choose mathematically and analytically and concentrate on those communities on the wrong side of the poverty line.". How are we doing?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But in early 2019, Amazon announced an industry-first for a delivery company: It pledged that half of all of its shipments would be net-zero carbon by 2030. The entire company (including transportation) will be net-zero carbon by 2040. It's already happened in Shanghai and other cities are well underway.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2023

Only after it passed into law, in August 2022, did Google let out a quiet cheer – in a tweet from its chief sustainability officer. Containing a US$369-billion investment in climate-related programs, the IRA represented the most significant single step the U.S. Congress has ever taken to tackle climate change.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Shortly after the 2025 strategy’s publication, I spoke with Ann Tracy, chief sustainability officer at Colgate-Palmolive, about the specific commitments, how the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on its sustainability goals and why it held firm with the release schedule for the company's recyclable toothpaste tube.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success. But any chief sustainability officer will fall short of their responsibility if they simply cite net-zero as a strategic goal. However, at the scale of countries, cities, institutions and companies, defining net-zero emissions is tricky.

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Just Capital

MARCH 23, 2023

At last week’s JUST Leadership Summit, we heard from sustainability leaders of two of the top-performing companies in our 2023 Rankings – American Electric Power (AEP) (#14 overall and #1 in the Utilities industry) and Nike (#97 overall and #1 in the Clothing & Accessories industry).

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3BL Media

JUNE 30, 2022

The organization owns and operates more than 30 million square feet of certified green area across its offices, shopping malls, communities and various destinations. Earlier this year, its Dubai-based headquarters, which covers 363,000 square feet, received the WELL Health-Safety Rating. “As

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

In the four years since Nancy Mahon assumed responsibility for CSR and sustainability strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies — she's currently senior vice president of corporate citizenship and sustainability — her team has launched a series of new initiatives that are a "first" among her organization's sector.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

In the six years since Nancy Mahon assumed responsibility for CSR and sustainability strategy at Estée Lauder Companies — she's currently senior vice president of corporate citizenship and sustainability — her team has launched a series of new initiatives that are a "first" among her organization's sector.

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Just Capital

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

degree Science Based Net Zero commitment, and providing sellers with 100% recycled packaging. Apple commits to eliminating all plastics in its packaging by 2025 and has pledged to create products with net zero carbon impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

They have the knowledge of their areas, the democratic mandate to truly deliver a zero carbon economy, and they can shape the solutions in partnership with central government and their own communities. But local authorities need new funding and new resources to deliver Net Zero by 2050, with many wanting to go further, faster.

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