ESG News For Global Partners

Volunteers Invited to Join a Global Wave of Action to Expand Clean Water Access

Pedro Azagra, CEO of Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), a leading sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, today issued the following statement at the start of Climate Week NYC.“Under the leadership of Iberdrola’s Executive Chairman Ignacio Galán, Avangrid has embarked on a journey to purposefully and confidently lead the clean energy transition in the United States. We recognize that we stand at a pivotal moment in our history, as we mark the beginning of Climate Week NYC, where t

The new program represents Milken Institute’s regional engagement strategy focused on paving the way for stronger, more comprehensive partnerships across the African continent.

Investment in regenerative agriculture is estimated to reduce the carbon footprint of Purina’s U.S. grain supply from Cargill by up to 40 percent over the next three years

GreenPan, award-winning inventors of PFAS-free ceramic nonstick cookware, is once again partnering with EARTHDAY.ORG to plant one tree per order purchased on their website (www.GreenPan.us) throughout the month of April. This partnership is one slice of GreenPan’s overall Earth Month efforts to further their sustainability mission while encouraging customers to pursue healthier and more earth-friendly practices in the kitchen.GreenPan is participating in EARTHDAY.ORG’s 2024 The Canopy Project® w

Trial of pioneering new technology in collaboration with Hrastnik1860, reduces Greenhouse Gas emissions by more than 30%

Wind and solar agreement provides cost savings while significantly reducing Berry’s operational impact

UKG ranks #2 in its industry and #25 of 400 U.S. companies overall

Nation's leading network of organic mushroom farms doubles down on commitment to social and environmental accountability and transparency

Recap of CSR stories on Business Wire

2023: sustained like-for-like growth and new margin gainsRecord results in line with the targets recently raised: +12.5%(1) like-for-like growth in revenue and a 15.5% operating margin, up +40 basis pointsOutlook for 2023: sustained strong like-for-like growth of around +10%(1); further improvement in operating margin (up +20 basis points)2025 targets confirmed, at more than €10 billion in revenue and a 16% operating marginA strong, enduring CSR commitment, reaffirmed in 2022 with new advances

Project Pioneers an Innovative, Easily Accessible Platform with Insightful Guidance, Decision-Support Tools, and Practical Knowledge for Marine Practitioners

Throughout 2022, iconic beauty brand Mary Kay—along with its company-sponsored foundations—gave more than 3 million dollars to support women’s causes around the world.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230112005756/en/Female entrepreneurs in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province increased their income and helped preserve the Yunnan Embroidery cultural industry thanks to Mary Kay Women’s Entrepreneurship Program. (Photo: Mary Kay Inc.)

Company Recognizes Top-Performing Suppliers Committed to Sustainable Partnerships for Growth

Masonite International Corporation (NYSE: DOOR), a leading global designer, manufacturer, marketer and distributor of interior and exterior doors, today announced a €5M investment in the Circular Innovation Fund L.P. (“CIF”), a venture capital fund dedicated to advancing the circular economy by investing in growth-stage companies across North America, Europe and Asia, which have the potential to solve complex supply chain problems and minimize environmental impact.With this investment, Masonite

With less than 3% of the ocean effectively protected, stakeholders call for strengthening global efforts to protect at least 30% of our ocean with a focus on improving the management of existing areas, rather than promoting the establishment of new protection.

AuthenticID, a global leader in identity proofing and fraud prevention solutions, announced a collaborative effort with Carlyle Global Partners motivated philanthropists to help address the accelerating global shortage of nurses. Co-hosted by philanthropists Sandy and Bill Nicholson, the initiative launched on Thursday, April 28th, during a special event at the iconic Barney’s building on Madison Avenue, NYC.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.business

Hisense, a leading technology enterprise worldwide, became a global partner with Paris Saint-Germain in 2020. Since then, benefiting from this partnership, Hisense has gained much recognition and support from consumers and built stronger emotional connections with football fans worldwide. As a socially responsible enterprise, Hisense took a step further and elevated its partnership by donating multiple hi-tech devices to non-profit programs and became a patron of Paris Saint-Germain Endowment Fu

Investors include Nippon Steel Trading, Steel Dynamics, and Rio Tinto

Mary Kay Inc., a global entrepreneurship development company and advocate for corporate social responsibility and sustainability, today released its year-end highlights. In 2021, Mary Kay Inc. continued its decades-long commitment to enriching the lives of women around the globe and building healthier, more sustainable communities.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220107005500/en/Mary Kay was named a Silver Globee® Winner

CANbridge Participated in the Ceremony as a Founding Sponsor

Six Pines Investments LLC (“Six Pines”), a wholly-owned, sustainable investment subsidiary of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (“CPChem”) announced today its equity investment in two leading circular plastics recyclers, Nexus Circular LLC (“Nexus”) and Mura Technology Ltd. (“Mura”).In October 2020, CPChem announced success in its first commercial scale production of polyethylene using advanced recycling technology. The company markets its new circular polyethylene under the name Marlex® Ane

Zebra’s 30th anniversary as a public company celebrated through charitable donations

 

Collaboration aims to fill director seats with openly LGBTQ+ executives, who currently represent less than one percent of leaders in the Fortune 500

Projects will support adoption of regenerative agriculture practices by U.S. farmers on more than 150,000 acres

UiPath and its channel partners are forging the path to the Fully Automated Enterprise

By collecting plastic from vulnerable coastal communities, Plastic Bank® is revealing value in plastic waste

Sustainable Development Acquisition I Corp. (“SDAC” or the “Company”), a public benefit corporation and pending B Corp, announced today the closing of its upsized initial public offering of 31,625,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.The Company’s units are traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol “SDACU”. Each unit consists of one share of the Company’s Class A common stock and one-half

Red River receives award from Cisco Partner Summit Digital

Facedrive Inc. (“Facedrive”) (TSXV: FD), a Canadian “people-and-planet-first” tech ecosystem, is delighted to announce that the HiQ App (the “App”), a platform developed by Facedrive’s wholly-owned subsidiary HiRide Share Ltd. (“HiRide”), a socially-responsible peer-to-peer platform offering innovative transportation and communication solutions, is partnering with Tally Technology Group Inc. (“Tally,” https://www.playtally.com/), a white-label, free-to-play sports predictions platform founded by

J2 Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM), a leading Internet information and services company, today announced a contribution to the NAACP of $6 million in advertising inventory across J2 Global media properties, over three years, to advance key NAACP messages and initiatives.J2 began working with NAACP in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death with the launch of its “#WeAreDoneDying” campaign across J2 Global digital media properties, promoting NAACP’s social movement urging Congress to take measures to e

Freshfields convenes multi-stakeholder coalition that identifies measures to support City’s COVID-19 recovery and transition to circular economy

Collaboration will spearhead technology advancements to enhance circularity of plastics

In a first-of-its-kind citizenship-driven partnership, P&G and IOC pledge to take action to make progress in key areas: equality and inclusion, environmental sustainability and community impactP&G and Team USA also announce an extension of their partnership through the Olympic and Paralympic Games Los Angeles 2028Athletes for Good Fund established to grant support for athlete causes that are advancing important work against shared valuesAgreement encompasses global rights to the IPC and Paralympic Games for the first timeAt one-year-to-go mark, P&G launches new film series The Measure of Greatness, which celebrates Olympic and Paralympic athletes and hopefuls leading with love

Global Partners is thanking its 3,000+ frontline employees at gas stations, markets and terminals with a handcrafted dinner from Chef Joshua Smith.

The Cummins Foundation is issuing emergency grants to non-profits addressing the needs of families and children impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The grants are targeted in cities in which the company is a critical employer with a significant role in the prosperity of the community.“When schools closed, working parents had few childcare options, learning environments were disrupted and students suddenly lacked access to nutritious meals and critical technologies to learn from home,” said Mary Cha

Building on Pfizer’s longstanding commitment to fight infectious diseases, grants will help address urgent needs of U.S. and global partners on the front lines of the pandemic Donations complement Pfizer’s COVID-19 R&D investments, as well as collective scientific and philanthropic contributions made by the biopharmaceutical industryU.S. Patient Assistance Program and other programs respond to changing needs of patients and medical community

Herbalife Nutrition (NYSE: HLF), a premier global nutrition company, along with the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF), today announced that it has a new nonprofit partner, The Hunger Project, under its Nutrition for Zero Hunger (NFZH) initiative. The Foundation has made an initial donation of $30,000 to fund the organization’s women-centered, community-led development and educational programs. Together they will invest in rural communities around the world affected by food insecurity and maln

This is Bank of America’s first locally denominated loan for commercial and industrial solar financing in India as part of its global Environmental Business Initiative, which will help expand Fourth Partner’s distributed solar impact

Yesterday, GUESS announced that it has joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular initiative, an initiative to redesign the future of fashion.Specifically, GUESS has committed to develop denim according to the initiative’s Jeans Redesign Guidelines, which tackle the issues of waste and pollution associated with denim production. The guidelines establish minimum requirements for durability, material health, recyclability, and traceability.“The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is lead

WNS to Sponsor 2019 Hotels.com “Fairway to Wellness” Charity Golf Tournament.

Associates and Partners Raise More Than $340,000 for Local Organizations

Collaboration on Wildlife Protection Project will leverage AI and IoT technologies

Company Sets Goal to Help Collect and Recycle a Bottle or Can for Every One it Sells by 2030

Our circular brand ambition represents our commitment to continue to transform our packaging using more recycled materials, and to inspire the creation of a closed recycling system that will evolve plastic from potential waste to a resource. evian achieved carbon neutrality in the US & Canada in 2017 and continues to pursue global carbon neutrality by 2020. evian seeks to continue to lower our carbon footprint by reducing the impact of plastic packaging. Inspired by the water cycle which continuously creates this precious water, evian believes that plastic should be continuously and sustainably renewed. evian will make all of its plastic bottles from 100% recycled plastic by 2025, adopting a ‘circular approach’ to plastic usage. evian plans to achieve this through pioneering partnerships to redesign its packaging, accelerate recycling initiatives and remove plastic waste from nature. evian joins the call for collaboration across industries and beyond to achieve a sustainable, large-scale change in the way we make, use and recycle plastics.

Company Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions By More Than 200,000 Metric Tons, Expects Portfolio Approach To Accelerate Future Reductions

Splunk Expands $100 Million Splunk Pledge and Offers Free and Discounted Software to All Nonprofits, Free Training to Military and Youth

Volunteers will use recycled trash bags to collect an estimated 4 million pounds of trash during the International Coastal Cleanup