Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

SKIP TO RANKING The age of incrementalism is over Twenty years after our first Best 50, a lot has changed for the better and a lot hasn’t. We need our top corporate citizens to harness the engine of business in service of people and the planet. A lot has changed for the better in that time and a lot hasn’t.

Net Zero 263

Net Zero Banking Manufacturing Waste 263

3BL Media

JULY 1, 2022

Capital Impact Partners, LIIF, Raza Development Fund and Reinvestment Fund lead new initiative to increase racial equity in real estate development. housing development market is known for high barriers to entry — and today, real estate developers of color make up less than five percent of the industry. SOURCE: Wells Fargo.

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Development Banking Impact Investing 231

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In this article, we provide a case example of the legislative implementation process in our native country and delve into the knowns and unknowns of the CSRD and its national implementation in Finland and beyond. In addition, credit institutions and insurance companies employing more than 500 people must report their data in 2025.

Analytics 147

Analytics 147

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Lenovo and Ashoka will also collaborate to connect and engage Ashoka changemakers and Lenovo business units and local offices in a transformative, collective journey to create positive impact in the tech sector. The selected changemakers will also be part of a global campaign to inspire people to be changemakers in their own communties.

Digitalization 130

Digitalization 130

3BL Media

AUGUST 10, 2022

More recently, they are learning about the distinction between risks and impacts, and are getting better at articulating and quantifying both. In this article, we will focus on two mindset shifts and their ability to make a significant impact beyond the business. Both are intricately linked to ESG approaches of companies.

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Regenerative Triple Bottom Line Development Academics 130

3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2022

On the eve of COP 27, we lay down the critical role of ICT and public-private partnerships in helping our world mitigate, adapt to and build resilience against climate catastrophe. Since last year’s COP26, it feels like there has just been a barrage of bad news. million people homeless. percent of the global carbon footprint.

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Climate Change Net Zero COP26 Decarbonize 130

3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Three other finalists awarded internships at Lenovo HQ in the US. As the winner, Peter has been awarded a three-month internship at Stella McCartney in a department of his choice, plus an internship with Lenovo’s design innovation team at their headquarters in North Carolina.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2022

Bridging the digital divide, a previously isolated island of 900 people will now remain connected to the world through Lenovo technology to open new possibilities for tourism, trade, employment, and education, increasing its environmental and economic resilience. CONNECTING A REMOTE ISLAND COMMUNITY.

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Digitalization Sustainability Professional Development 246

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The planet-killing comet movie Don’t Look Up slammed onto Netflix at the close of 2021, acting – in a way – as a satirical epilogue to the United Nations COP26 Climate Conference. Using the lens of Don’t Look Up, let’s explore some of these behaviors and examine ways to productively push back. SOURCE: Antea Group.

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Climate Change COP26 130

3BL Media

DECEMBER 28, 2023

One of just three nongovernmental organizations nationwide to have a memorandum of agreement with FEMA , Team Rubicon has extensive experience and recognized expertise in disaster management and preparedness. FedEx is a crucial ally in providing communities at risk with the knowledge and training to successfully plan for future crises.

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Logistics Development 147

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Lately, a steady march of searing heat, ruinous floods, horrific wildfires, unbreathable air, devastating hurricanes and other climate-related calamities has been traversing our screens and wreaking havoc to national and local budgets. So many people and stories. And we’re only at 1°C of increased global temperature rise.

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Climate Change Integrated Reporting Banking CDP 529

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

SUMMARY: What’s the news: T-Mobile MONEY customers can now use True Name, a feature that lets customers display their chosen name on their T-Mobile MONEY debit card. T-Mobile makes it easy for all customers to be themselves every day. . T-Mobile makes it easy for customers to be themselves. SOURCE: T-Mobile.

Banking 130

Banking Digitalization Development 130

3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2024

International Olympic Committee news Alpine resorts covered with barren slopes in the peak winter season. Rising temperatures making skiing and other snow sports virtually impossible. Glaciers continuing to melt away. Now, with the list of potential hosts expected to dwindle to a select few, the task becomes even more pressing.

Climate Change 147

Climate Change Development Waste 147

3BL Media

JULY 6, 2023

The survey conducted for CRB’s 2023 Horizons: Alternative Proteins report uncovered three big industry trends: increasing scalability, chasing sustainability, and pulling back on capital investment. For example, scalability remains a key priority and challenge, though we’ve helped clients make progress in that area. Sebastian: Correct.

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Development 130

Just Capital

AUGUST 4, 2023

Be well, Martin JUST IN THE NEWS In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action, corporate America is walking a tightrope on DEI. People talk about shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism. JUST AI JP Morgan Chase , Capital One , and Wells Fargo lead the race to make banking an AI-first industry.

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Banking Climate Change 52

Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 9, 2023

But today, as our democracy inches closer to its breaking point, and our leadership is needed more than ever, Black women are too often invested in as fuel for short-term social progress rather than as humans imagining and building multi-generational change. The last three years have only exacerbated this unsustainable dynamic.

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Development 98

Cisco CSR

JULY 18, 2022

July is Disability Pride Month, a time to accept and honor the diversity within the disability community, reflect on issues that people with disabilities are facing, and inspire action to make the world more inclusive and accessible. More than one billion people around the globe experience some form of disability.

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Corporate Social Responsibility Development 102

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Water is one of our most precious resources. If we’re going to make sure there is enough water for future generations to live, we need a revolution in the way we think about and use water. And on this show, we make talking about the climate a conversation that everyone is invited to. SOURCE: Meta.

Climate Change 130

Climate Change Waste Supply Chains Supply Chain 130

Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The UN recently warned that our efforts are insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate change. Perhaps we should consider increasing our efforts. Another approach is to allocate more resources towards expanding current solutions, which could yield impactful results. How can we break this cycle of endless problem-solving?

Development 116

Development Climate Change Waste 116

Chris Hall

MAY 10, 2024

Greenbank ran its own screening database and my job was to look after it, for example trawling through news sources, aggregating data, and uncovering granular insights on the UK’s largest companies and a few international firms,” he said. “It If you bang people over the head with stuff, then it is unlikely that they will do what you want.

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Stewardship Code Divestment Net Zero Development 75

Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For three years, Réjane Woodroffe lived a life of extreme opposites. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.” A majority of households had lost a child to diarrhea and one in nine households had lost three or more children to this illness of bad water and poor sanitation. By Réjane Woodroffe.

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Development 74

Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years,” the UN agency states in its Sixth Assessment Report , a final synthesis that brings together six in-depth science and policy reports dating back to October, 2018.

Climate Change 269

Climate Change Decarbonize Stranded Assets Paris Agreement 269

Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making “evidence-based” decisions; and generating rigorous data. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems.

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Academics Analytics Development Impact Investing 100

Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In an already unstable economic climate, the ground beneath our organization had crumbled beneath us. Civil society creates a balance between sectors, providing a means for private companies to create social impact, and to improve civilian access to essential needs usually covered by the public sector, like education and health care.

Development 97

Development 97

Just Capital

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

” The UAW is currently in contract negotiations with the Big Three automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, and the current UAW contract expires September 14th. Our polling reinforces this every year. These are the elements of a winning model that our work, and that of others, is helping to inform.

Value Creation 52

Value Creation Development 52

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anybody who’s watched the news over the past month will know that the effects of climate change are becoming too pressing to ignore. ” Over the past fifty years, the temperature of our planet has risen faster than throughout any period over the past 2000 years. We saw what was possible during the first few months of Covid19.

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COP26 Climate Change Decarbonize 101

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Economists, environmentalists and policymakers — many of them white — tout cap and trade as a cost-effective way to cut emissions while generating money for other climate initiatives. and elsewhere, low-income residents and people of color shoulder an outsized share of the climate burden. In the U.S. Shutterstock. Angel DiBilio.

Climate Change 436

Climate Change Shipping Waste Development 436

Stacey Higginbotham

MARCH 8, 2022

The findings were derived from a pool of data on smart home device behavior by way of consumers who had downloaded and run a program called IoT Inspector. IoT Inspector was launched about three years ago as a way to gather crowdsourced behavior data on smart home devices. I downloaded it and ran it for a few weeks.

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Academics Manufacturing 122

Daniel Burrus

MARCH 18, 2020

While I myself have discussed at length these fears and many more, few would have thought that in the early stages of 2020, our economy would be in a downturn, we would be instantly converted to remote work or laid off, and we would be quarantined to our homes due to a global pandemic. Real-World Dystopia.

Digitalization 98

Digitalization 98

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“It’s impossible not to see and feel the impacts of climate change when you’re in the thick of it in the day-to-day, and we all are now,” says Steele, who was born and raised in British Columbia, where deadly heat domes, atmospheric rivers and record-breaking wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency.

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Net Zero Waste Climate Change Development 352

James Militzer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And second, though the work we do aligns with Yunus’ original inspiration for Grameen Bank, Grameen Foundation focuses on financial inclusion to achieve our mission: to empower people, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger. We are not a microfinance institution (MFI). Poor women are not broken; the system is.

Banking 97

Banking Digitalization Impact Investing Development 97

Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including BNPP AM, Western Asset, GAM, Blue Horizon, Gresham House and Architas. . BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched two new thematic index ETFs integrating an ESG approach. ” .

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Ethical Investment Digital Transformation Sustainable Investment Supply Chains 52

Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 16, 2022

When I co-founded DataKind in 2011 to connect volunteer data scientists with nonprofits looking to increase their impact, I did so with a vision of data science and AI being used, first and foremost, in the service of humanity. Are our only options to charge ahead with innovation, hoping for the best? There must be a third way.

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Corporate Social Responsibility Analytics Development 112

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As a global water technology provider, helping our customers solve some of the toughest water challenges, Xylem has developed strong relationships with most UK water companies, over many years. We are already having highly productive strategic conversations with some of the most agile water service operators about AMP8.

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Net Zero Zero Carbon Development Supply Chains 59

Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 1, 2022

This metaphor, which has circulated for decades , draws attention to decision-making moments when women divert from STEM paths , such as when declaring an undergraduate major or starting a family. The impact of these barriers and biases extends beyond workplaces; they shape STEM products and innovations themselves.

Digitalization 107

Digitalization Academics Climate Change Development 107

Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The recent Aquanomics report by GHD clearly underscores the urgent need to take robust action to build water resilience and mitigate the frequency and potentially catastrophic impacts of these climate events. Added to this are the hard-to-measure social and psychological impacts on those caught up in these events.

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Waste Regenerative Climate Change Development 52

3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

It’s always a privilege to stand before this conference, to recognize your efforts and to provide some insights into the various aspects of our world, from what’s happening on the global stage to what’s happening in our own communities and workplaces. But while our world changes, the reason we gather remains constant.

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Global Economy Development Net Zero Climate Change 243