Month: October 2022
American Express Pledges $2 Million to the United Negro College Fund to Help Advance Opportunities for Students in Underrepresented Communities
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–American Express (NYSE: AXP) American Express today announced a $2 million pledge from the American Express Foundation to UNCF (United Negro College Fund) to help advance opportunities for students in underrepresented communities. Over the next three years, UNCF will use the funding to award 300 “Building Better Futures” grants of $5,000 each to students in their senior year at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). These grants will support students as
Yamaha Rightwaters™ Conservation Efforts Gain Recognition for Innovation
KENNESAW, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Soundings Trade Only recognized Yamaha as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative companies in the marine industry for the Yamaha Rightwaters sustainability program. Editor-in-Chief Gary Reich made the announcement during a special online awards ceremony on Oct. 21. Now in its fifth year, The Most Innovative Company awards program honors forward-thinking companies across a variety of categories that are transforming the future of the marine industry through new initiat
RepRisk Launches First-of-its-kind Biodiversity Risk Tool, Finds 73% of Oil and Gas Projects Are Near Environmentally Sensitive Sites
ZURICH, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ESG data science firm RepRisk and the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) Alliance collaborated to unlock biodiversity insights via RepRisk Geospatial Analytics, which launches today. An extension of RepRisk’s flagship product, the RepRisk ESG Risk Platform, Geospatial Analytics facilitates robust biodiversity risk assessment for market practitioners and solves common pitfalls around quality and availability of both biodiversity and proximity dat
Humankind Investments Ranks Top 100 U.S. Companies Creating Most Value for Society
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humankind Investments, a quantitatively driven asset manager specializing in socially responsible investments, announced today the release of the “Humankind 100,” the first-ever ranking of the top U.S. companies offering the greatest benefit to humanity, based on Humankind Investments’ proprietary Humankind Value methodology. As the challenges of creating transparency around Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data and rankings become increasingly apparent, Hum
Bacardi Cuts Plastic in Packaging
HAMILTON, Bermuda–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #BacardiLife–Bacardi, the world’s largest privately held spirits company, is cutting approximately 140 tons of single-use plastic annually, by removing plastic pourers from its bottles in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Spain and Portugal. The plastic Non-Refillable Fitment (NRF) is commonplace throughout the spirits industry and is currently found in the neck of a number of the company’s iconic drink brands including: BACARDÍ® rum, MARTINI® Fiero, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® gin and
ISAP2022: The 14th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific “Strengthening Synergies Between Climate Change and Biodiversity: From Science to Policy to Action”
TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #IGES–IGES will host the 14th International Forum on Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2022) from 28 November to 5 December.
bit.bio Expands Independent Ethics and Sustainability Board as Part of Commitment to Being a Purpose Driven Company
CAMBRIDGE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #Celltherapy–Today bit.bio welcomes two new members to its independent Ethics and Sustainability Board to further support the company’s commitment to being a purpose led, ethical organisation. bit.bio is working towards a future in which precision engineered human cells enable biomedical innovation (UN SDG9) and a new generation of cures (UN SDG3). The new advisors will provide important and independent guidance as bit.bio scales their proprietary synthetic biology cell
