Organizations
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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12-17-12
Wells Fargo Joins Ceres Company Network
Ceres announced today that its board of directors has approved Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), one of the world’s largest financial services companies, as the newest member of the Ceres company network. Companies that join Ceres’s network work to integrate environmental and social performan...
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12-13-12
CA Technologies, One of America's Greenest IT Companies, Joins BICEP
BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy) today announced that CA Technologies has joined the BICEP coalition to advocate for innovative climate and clean energy policies.
Recently named the
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12-11-12
New Report: Growing Water Scarcity Presents Major Challenges
As numerous western states are considering massive new water supply projects, a new Ceres report is suggesting caution.
Citing shrinking federal funds, uncertain water demand and declining revenues to pay for the projects, the report recommends that utilities move carefully before embarkin...
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12-10-12
Majority Of World’s Largest Companies Shifting To Clean Energy
Despite climate and energy policy inching forward in Congress and at the UN climate change negotiations in Qatar, a new report from Calvert Investments, Ceres and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) shows that most of the world’s largest companies aren’t waiting on governments to embrace renewable energy a...
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12-07-12
New AA1000 Standards Board Announced
The AA1000 Standards Board Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the new members of the AA1000 Standards Board. Since 1999, the AA1000 series of Standards are widely used tools for integrating and embedding sustainability and accountability into the governance and perform...
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11-28-12
World AIDS Day: CEOs Call to End HIV Travel Restrictions
This World AIDS Day, Chief Executives from some of the world’s largest companies are calling for an end to travel restrictions for people living with HIV.
More than 40 CEOs have signed an unprecedented pledge urging the repeal of laws and policies in 45 countries that still deport, detain ...
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11-26-12
Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas Dedicates Nearly $1.2 Million for Environmental Causes
(NYSE: MTU) At its annual meeting held on November 2, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) approved an aggregate of $1,195,000 in additional support for environmental causes throughout the Americas, in the form of new grants and a continuat...
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11-20-12
World's Largest Investors Call For More Decisive Action By Governments On Climate Change
Groups representing the world’s largest investors today published an open letter addressed to governments of the world’s largest economies calling for a new dialogue on climate change policy in order to avert dangerous climate change and its resulting economic impacts. The lette...
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11-14-12
SRI Assets Up 22% in Two Years
The new 2012 Report on Sustainable and Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, released today by the US SIF Foundation, finds that sustainable and responsible invest...
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11-08-12
Facebook, Walmart, Zappos Execs Address Next-Gen Sustainability at VERGE San Francisco
GreenBiz Group is set to kick off the first annual VERGE San Francisco, taking place November 9-13. Business executives, community lead...
