3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2024

We focus on cultural topics, larger company initiatives and find ways to give back and ways to uplift. Like with many other communities, it’s a safe place to find fellowship with those who look like you, understand where you’re coming from and maybe even have similar experiences.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Without a globally consistent and comprehensible communication on any topic, there is a risk of intentional or unintentional misrepresentations and misunderstandings. GRI’s focus on standardized reporting, improved efficiency and precision in data collection, as well as disclosure auditability helps prevent corporate greenwashing.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Researchers looked at the language of almost 7000 leaders from over 5000 companies in the S&P Global Broad Market Index. Tweet me: In the latest edition of @Ericsson 's #Diversity & #Inclusion news round up, they tackle the topics of #Women in leadership, #Bias, #Future of work, and #Mental health. Read more here.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 8, 2022

Even people who champion diversity and are knowledgeable about the topic can be nervous about choosing the correct words to describe various aspects of personal identity. How should I address the chief … Continue reading How to get better at using inclusive language in the workplace.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2024

In January, the GSSB took a significant step forward by appointing a diverse Working Group to revise GRI's Economic Impact-related Topic Standards. Our GRI Standards are a free public good that provides the global common language for organizations to communicate their environmental, social, and economic impacts.

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3BL Media

APRIL 23, 2024

Located in the Children’s Bureau’s Magnolia Place Family Center building, which provides a variety of health, educational, economic and social services, the financial education center serves a low- to moderate-income community – the majority of whom speak Spanish as their primary language.

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Banking Development 147

3BL Media

JULY 17, 2023

The series will include an initial six episodes on topics ranging from climate change to agriculture and food to tax. All 18 episodes of the earlier GRI podcast series on the topic – SDGs: The Rising Tide – are also available. The SDG Insider can be accessed on Spotify and Apple podcast.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Following on from a discussion with Lenovo’s Global Product Diversity Office Manager, Ada Lopez, on this crucial topic in April, Marine discusses how we are achieving change. Progress requires focus and effort, but it can also be simple, and I think our journey is exemplary for how a company can start to address the topic.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Vedanshi pitched her detailed concept to competition judges in a three-minute video describing Sani-Buddy, her proposed app that would utilize smart technology sensors and multi-language translation to give people information about the quality of their water.

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Digitalization Development 147

3BL Media

AUGUST 18, 2022

The podcast series launched with 3 episodes in 7 languages, including English, Dutch, French, French Canadian, German, Japanese, and Spanish, and was the first required I&D learning for all Expedia Group employees. Inclusive Language Integration. The series drove high employee engagement in 2021, generating a collective 1.6

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3BL Media

APRIL 28, 2022

The Empower by GoDaddy curriculum offers 10 courses on key digital presence topics – from branding and evaluating your business, to developing, publishing and promoting your website to more advanced topics like search engine optimization and security. Since its launch in 2017, Empower by GoDaddy has expanded outside of the U.S.

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3BL Media

JULY 17, 2023

The 2022 standard created opportunities for SICs to lead collaborative efforts on topics such as biodiversity conservation. The revised lessons reflect Indigenous cultures, languages, values and ways of learning, and they are available to all Minnesota teachers. Early feedback suggests such collaborations are proving successful.”

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The GRI Perspective is a regular briefing series, launched in January 2022, covering topical themes from the world of sustainability reporting. GRI’s Global Sustainability Standards Board has commenced dialogue with the IAASB and committed to contribute technical expertise to the project.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Human rights reporting will be further integrated in the GRI Standards, following the launch of a project to update labor Topic Standards – including the creation of new disclosures or standards. The current intention is that eight Topic Standards will be reviewed: Market Presence (GRI 202). SOURCE: GRI.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Session topics include strategic thinking, advocating for yourself, and personal branding. I also knew that this was a hard-working labor force and didn’t think language should be a barrier to employment.”. "For many of our employees, this will be the first time they have a mentor.”. I knew the challenges they were facing.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Verizon Small Business Digital Ready includes courses designed to provide essential knowledge and tools, including topics such as developing a marketing strategy, improving employee experience, cybersecurity, best practices for leveraging social media channels for growth, and many others.

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Digitalization Corporate Social Responsibility Development 147

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

McDonough: My parents were in Japan, both speaking Japanese, because my father was a Japanese language officer for Gen. I thought, what if we redefine our way of dealing with it and what if we had new language for carbon that does not demonize it? I thought we needed a new language for carbon. Fugitive carbon, no.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2024

She enjoys the creative journey a STEM professional can embark on and sees programing language as a chance to bridge the verbal and written form into technical output. Jalese is a certified project manager, SAFe 4 Agilist and scrum master, and is currently pursuing certifications in data analysis and the R scripting language.

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3BL Media

JULY 31, 2023

We believe in a user-friendly reporting system that addresses all sustainability topics – for impacts as well as risks and opportunities – on a global scale. This position also reflects our commitment to continued collaboration with the ISSB to arrive at the global comprehensive baseline for sustainability reporting.”

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With that in mind, it’s understandable that environmental, social and governance topics are at risk of slipping down the priority list in board rooms. Among the topics – ESG. In our CEO Outlook survey, just over a third of senior executives revealed that the language they use internally and externally to refer to ESG has changed.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2022

The GRI Perspective is a regular series, launched in January 2022, that dives under the surface of topical themes in the world of sustainability reporting. Issue 1: A business case for environment & society , explained the latest changes in the reporting landscape.

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3BL Media

JUNE 15, 2022

As with many other workplace topics, protocol will continue to evolve, so your best bet is to maintain an ongoing dialog in this area. There are many online tutorials as well, such as the LinkedIn Learning course on Strategies to Foster Inclusive Language at Work. “Have an open conversation about it,” Goldstein says. How can I learn?

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Corporate Knights

MAY 19, 2023

They also warn against ploys to water down language. The current system works really well for them, because they get to keep using single-use packaging. It’s not alone: industry lobbyists had more than 290 meetings on the topic with European Parliament members in early 2022 alone, according to DeSmog.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It combed its own vast customer database of more than a billion image searches, then commissioned a third-party survey of more than 10,000 people across 25 countries, conducted in more than a dozen languages. If sustainability’s importance to consumers and purchasers didn’t go away in the midst of a global pandemic, will it ever?

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 11, 2022

No Enablement can be successful without a focused training building the foundational understanding of the subject, while Enablement on that topic helps you understand how to use the training to make you successful at work. Such a training is relevant to everyone interested in the topic.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

The new multilingual application was developed in response to challenges faced during social audits, including language barriers, lack of privacy and coverage of key social indicators, to identify forced labor. Workers can be interviewed anonymously and remotely through technology in their native language.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2022

The GRI Perspective is a regular briefing series, launched in January 2022, covering topical themes from the world of sustainability reporting. Focus areas in the previous seven issues include human rights reporting, stakeholder capitalism, lobbying, tax transparency – and more.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Learning offerings provided through the expanded upskilling program will include “Sustainability Simplified,” a live virtual speaker series by NYU Stern Executive Education and Center for Sustainable Business examining the science behind the climate crisis and the equity topics, the live virtual “Sustainability Accelerator” program by MIT (..)

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B the Change

JUNE 26, 2022

Gendered Language: Stay away from gendered language in internal and external business communications unless absolutely necessary. Employee Handbook: Include explicit language about rejecting homophobia and transphobia in your employee handbook. Inclusive Language: Use inclusive language in your communications.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To address this labor shortage, the company launched the Upward Academy , offering free and accessible classes in English as a Second Language, High School Equivalency, U.S. citizenship, financial literacy and digital literacy. Pull Quote. State of Green Business Report. Corporate Social Responsibility. Social Justice.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The GRI Perspective is a regular series, launched in January 2022, that dives under the surface of topical themes in the world of sustainability reporting. That is the only way to achieve the comparable and effective reporting needed to drive corporate accountability.”.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

There are so many elements to consider - from language barriers to working expectations to EHS legal and regulatory compliance. Language is one of those aspects that can be much more complex than it seems on the surface and must be accommodated when conveying EHS rules and regulations to local staff.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 6, 2024

ISS flagged that climate change and diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) proposals, appear to be the most dominant topics for filings so far this year – a trend which it said is set to continue. Last year, a total 372 E&S proposals went to vote – up from 50 in 2022 – setting a new high for a second consecutive year.

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 21, 2022

The library has a large section of general policies that cover many topics. A constraint template is a CRD that defines the schema and the definition of the constraint in the Rego language. Rego: the declarative policy language. There is no special language like Rego. The policy library. requiredprobes. disallowedtags.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2022

Reporting on a common set of topics is the starting point for further measurable and verifiable results.”. Organizations start with the Universal Standards, then use applicable Sector Standard(s) to determine material topics, and report on those using relevant Topic Standards.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Corporate conservation campaigns used phrases such as "Save the [insert your favorite animal]," which have been catchy, effective and oddly similar to the language we’re now using to educate people about the status of Black life in America. The Disney Conservation Fund protects lions, elephants, chimpanzees and thousands of other species.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

What spurred us to launch the summits back in 2019 was the realization that these parties weren’t always speaking the same language or understanding one another’s needs. And these are among the topics we’ll be covering at GreenFin. Tower of Babel. Who owns it? Is it accurate? These are among the questions still to be addressed.

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