Organizations
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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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...
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10-24-12
Investors Ask Congress to Extend Wind Production Tax Credit
Two dozen investors with more than $800 billion in assets under management today called for an immediate extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for renewable power. In a letter delivered to Congressional leader...
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10-23-12
Voting Now Open for 2012 VERGE 25 Awards
GreenBiz Group, producer of the VERGE global event series, today opened voting for its first annual
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10-22-12
Investors Call on Canadian Oil Sands Producers to Improve Environmental and Social Performance
As presidential candidates spar over the issue of North American energy independence, a group of 49 investors with $2 trillion in assets under management are calling on Canadian oil sands developers to dramatically reduce the environmental and social impact of their operations by lowering greenho...
