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Pure Strategies is partnering with Environmental Defense Fund to offer three free events aimed at helping advance corporate sustainability programs. These in-person sessions will be held in New York City during Climate Week on September 19 and 20. Registration now available.
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Ceres and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) released a new report today that provides a comprehensive review of the current resources available to households for post-disaster economic recovery in South Carolina
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Independent study by E3 says accelerated electrification, expanded renewables, and grid investment will be required to support decarbonization
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KKR 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate Tue, 09/27/2022 - 12:45 Type of Content Blog Layout Standard Format Body Globally, there is an urgent need to take climate action and address related risks and opportunities as we transition to a lower carbon economy. The physical and transition effects of climate change can influence a business’ bottom line and its ability to compete in the future. We believe that proactively engaging on climate action is critical for all companies to drive performance an
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Three leading U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies jointly announced that they have joined the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0.
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How Tracking GHG Emissions Accelerates Value and Strengthens Companies Fri, 05/13/2022 - 11:10 Subheader By James Mandel and Jake Shirmer Type of Content Blog Layout Standard Format Body The next ten years will be a critical decade to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Investors increasingly recognize the urgency of climate change and have allocated a growing amount of capital to sustainability efforts, with $500 billion dedicated to decarbonization in 2020 – double the amount invested in 20
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Southern Glazer's announces the winners of its Company-wide environmental sustainability idea competition as part of its Idea Distillery program.
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Accelerating Climate Action: Project Gigaton™ Marks Key Milestone Mon, 04/11/2022 - 16:55 Subheader By Kathleen McLaughlin, Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc.; President, Walmart Foundation Type of Content Article Layout Featured Media Body Today, Walmart marks a major milestone: We are now more than halfway toward our goal to reduce or avoid 1 billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from product supply chains by 2030 through our Pro
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Public support is overwhelming for the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed rule addressing the consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria and allowing proxy voting in retirement plans, according to a new report by the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, and Environmental Defense Fund.
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SOURCE: PG DESCRIPTION:While the extraordinary events of the last two years have brought many challenges, we’ve also gained perspective on what really matters. We’ve seen the power of human kindness. And we’ve learned that brands and companies have a responsibility to do more and do better for the people and communities that we serve, and the planet we call home. At PG, doing good has been in our DNA since we were founded more than 180 years ago. For generations, we’ve supported consumers and com
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Covestro to Host Virtual Youth Climate Summit During COP26 Thu, 10/14/2021 - 12:05 Type of Content Press Release Layout Featured Media Body October 14, 2021 /3BL Media/ - At the same time as world leaders gather at the United Nations’ annual climate change conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, the first week of November, Covestro LLC will host a free, virtual climate summit for U.S. high school students that is designed to give them a voice during the global discussions and challenge them to
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Projects will support adoption of regenerative agriculture practices by U.S. farmers on more than 150,000 acres
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Walmart strengthens its commitment to U.S. manufacturing with a $350-billion investment over the next 10 years and announces the launch of “American Lighthouses,” a collaborative program to better sustain manufacturing in strategic regions of the country
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Covestro Announces Speaker Lineup for THINC30 in October Tue, 10/06/2020 - 09:35 Type of Content Press Release Layout Standard Format Body PITTSBURGH, October 6, 2020 /3BL Media/ - For the fourth year in a row, Covestro will host its THINC30 summit, this time virtually and viewed through the lens of current events – the pandemic, racial justice and economic uncertainty, coupled with the climate crisis. Titled, The UNSDGs in the New Now: Resilience and Recovery, this year’s summit will continue C
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Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases a new ESG Talks podcast episode, The Washington Insiders. This episode of ESG Talks features the perspectives of the environmental advocacy community in Washington, D.C. Courtney Taylor, a Partner at Cypress Group who focuses on environmental law and regulation, interviews the Environmental Defense Fund’s Senior Director for Strategic Planning, Elgie Holstein. Courtney and Elgie are both Washington insiders, having worked in the capital for years. Courtne
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Company advocates for partnership with government, other businesses and nongovernmental organizations
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Cummins announcing new environmental sustainability strategy including carbon neutral targets
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Cummins announcing new environmental sustainability strategy including carbon neutral targets
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Over the past six years, Environmental Defense Fund has been working with Smithfield, the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts from its operations and across its supply chain.
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Tyson Foods, Inc. and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today announced a new partnership to develop and deploy initiatives that support Tyson’s sustainability strategy and help meet increasing consumer demand for more sustainably grown food. The partnership’s first project focuses on land stewardship and aims to pilot and scale agriculture practices on 500,000 acres of corn that reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), improve water quality and maximize farmer profitability. This effort will also h
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Company sets new, industry-leading carbon reduction goals
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Smithfield Foods, Inc. is the first food company to participate in a new program with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) to restore key prairie habitat for monarch butterflies, as described in this video. Their efforts are helping bring back the iconic insect, which has experienced a 95 percent population decline since the 1980s and could be listed as a threatened species in June 2019. However, the monarch is currently undergoing what is anticipated to be the l
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Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce, through the nationwide expansion of Smithfield Renewables, innovative projects designed to help meet its goal to reduce the company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25 percent by 2025, which it set in concert with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). This month marks the one-year anniversary of Smithfield Renewables.
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Maven’s Notebook, in partnership with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Stanford’s Program on Water in the West (WitW), launched a new website today at www.groundwaterexchange.org to provide a central hub of science-based information related to California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).
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The Southern Plains Land Trust, working with the Environmental Defense Fund, has sold the first listed grassland carbon credits, making possible the restoration and preservation of two Colorado ranches that together sequester 8,000 metric tons of soil carbon per year. SCS Global Services conducted the third-party verification of the carbon offset project, confirming the accuracy of the emissions reductions and compliance with the Climate Action Reserve’s Grassland Project Protocol. The project wa
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Learn about the technology and purpose driving environmental innovation according to top executives as discovered by the Environmental Defense Fund.
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More than 1 Million Fans Join the Energy Conversation to Create a
More Sustainable Future
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In early December 2016, Smithfield Foods became the first major livestock company to set an absolute supply chain goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The world’s largest pork producer committed to cutting emissions in its US supply chain 25% by 2025.\r\r“We’re getting a lot of input from our customers, NGOs, and different groups as to how we can participate in an effort to reduce our carbon emissions,” says Bill Gill, assistant vice president for sustainability at Smithfield Foods.\r\rGill
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Michael Vachiraadisorn, General Motors’ Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps fellow, brought a unique perspective to the company as an MBA candidate at the University of Oregon. During his 10 weeks with GM, Michael used both his engineering background and new business acumen to bring fresh perspective on solving energy challenges.
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Retailer sets new goal for 10 percent priority chemical reduction by
2022
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Practical sustainability requires leadership, service innovation and efficiency from FedEx team members. We also need smart collaboration with other organizations, such as Environmental Defense Fund and WRI EMBARQ.
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“At first folks thought that FedEx and EDF were an odd couple. Together, we’ve demonstrated that sustainability is good for business.” \r\rAs Director of Supply Chain at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Jason Mathers helps companies cut pollution, greenhouse gas emissions—and business costs. Over almost two decades of close collaboration, he says, FedEx has helped develop a new generation of transport solutions.
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How do you measure the environmental impact of a smart city? It’s a central question for municipalities across the country that are looking for ways to make cities more efficient and resilient while delivering better services to their citizens. It is not, however, a question with a lot of clear answers – which is why we were so excited to work with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Fellow and MBA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chandana Vangapalli, to help
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Agriculture, Food, Environmental Leaders Launch Effort to Support Farmers, Strengthen Conservation in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska -- Midwest Row Crop Collaborative Founding Members Include Cargill, Environmental Defense Fund, General Mills, Kellogg Company, Monsanto, PepsiCo, The Nature Conservancy, Walmart, World Wildlife Fund
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I was already level with the roof on a ladder when my General Motors supervisor pointed out the irony of my situation. As an Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellow, I was destroying the homes of the young maple tree seedlings trying to grow in the rain gutter of a Detroit home. I’m all for trees, but not when they take up residence in a rain gutter.
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