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Our commitment to diversity, inclusion & belonging

Inclusion and belonging go hand in hand. Inclusion involves creating an environment where individuals from diverse backgrounds feel respected, valued and integrated into decision-making processes. Belonging is the emotional experience of feeling accepted and valued as part of our workplace, with customers, and in the communities where we live and work. We strive to create an inclusive workplace that builds the foundation.

In our 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report, we highlight various initiatives and programs we offer to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where every employee feels valued. In this article, we take a closer one of the recognitions in 2025 that is a testament to this.

Spotlight on progress: Launch of Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) in Australia

In 2025, we proudly launched our inaugural Australian Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) – a formal commitment to strengthening relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, organizations, and communities.

Our RAP is a framework to promote cultural understanding and support economic empowerment and well-being. It reflects our belief that reconciliation is a shared responsibility and a journey we walk together.

Our action plan is centered on unlocking the profound collective wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, whose legacy spans over 65,000 years of caring for country through land care and land management. As a company that works closely with land, resources, and communities, we believe that respecting and learning from this heritage is critical to how we operate.

This program, endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, builds on our global inclusion efforts, including our Partnership Accreditation in Aboriginal Relations (PAIR) program in Canada, and aligns with our purpose to take energy forward, making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet.

We’re excited to continue collaborating across industry and local communities- sharing knowledge, listening deeply, and creating lasting impact.

Learn more about this important work here. 

By GoDaddy

Angie K. is joined by her “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” castmate and longtime friend, Heather Gay, co-owner of Beauty Lab + Laser, to talk through her journey from stay-at-home mom to successful business owner. Heather shares what it was really like in the early days of building her med spa, from wearing every hat imaginable to learning how to lead a growing team, and why mentorship played a critical role in her success. She also discusses what mentorship looks like today, when busy schedules often make traditional coffee chats a thing of the past. Plus, hear insights from GoDaddy Small Business Research Lab and a founder spotlight with fellow beauty entrepreneur Naomi Lewis of Luminati Labs, who shares her own lessons from building thriving businesses.

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About GoDaddy School of Hustle with Angie K.

GoDaddy’s School of Hustle hosted by Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Angie Katsanevas examines the “reality” facing today’s entrepreneurs and secrets behind navigating the plot twists along the way to success. Each episode is a totally candid conversation with newsmakers and GoDaddy customers led by fan-favorite Angie K who was a hustler long before the Bravo cameras started rolling.

About GoDaddy

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to GoDaddy to name their idea, build a website and logo, sell their products and services and accept payments. GoDaddy Airo®, the company’s AI-powered experience, makes growing a small business faster and easier by helping them to get their idea online in minutes, drive traffic and boost sales. GoDaddy’s expert guides are available 24/7 to provide assistance. To learn more about the company, visit www.GoDaddy.com.

On a crisp November morning in Entregalde, a small village in Alba County, 63-year-old Oana wrapped her woolen scarf tightly as she walked toward the community center. Her fatigue and dizziness had become part of daily life—symptoms she had learned to ignore. But seeing a specialist at the hospital would normally mean hours of travel she could not manage.

That day, a medical caravan had arrived in her village. Inside, cardiologists, endocrinologists, neurologists, and pediatricians welcomed residents for free screenings. For the first time in years, Oana spoke with a specialist. After routine tests—blood pressure, EKG, and hemoglobin A1c—the diagnosis was clear: she had been living with undiagnosed diabetes.

“I didn’t know what was wrong,” Oana says. “Now I have a doctor who explained what’s happening and what to do next.” For Oana, the visit marked more than a diagnosis. It marked reconnection.

Care that continues

“Access to healthcare should not depend on where you live.”

Luminița Vâlcea, Vocea Pacienților

“This isn’t about one-day visits. It’s about building bridges, so care goes on after the caravan leaves.”

Gabriel Șerban, Project Communications Manager

“Real impact happens when mobile care becomes part of the system—not a workaround.”

Catalina Serban, Senior Public Affairs Specialist & Project Manager for the Prevention Drive in Rural Romania

A structural gap in rural healthcare in Romania

Oana’s experience reflects a broader reality across rural Romania. Around 30% of the population—nearly eight million people—live in rural areas, where access to healthcare services is limited by workforce shortages, fragmented infrastructure, and low health literacy. Diabetologists are concentrated in Bucharest, while many rural areas lack resident specialists altogether. This imbalance leads to extremely high population-to-specialist ratios, often exceeding 10,000 people per diabetologist.

Type 2 diabetes and related cardio-renal-metabolic conditions often remain undiagnosed until complications emerge—placing avoidable strain on patients, families, and the healthcare system. In this context, early screening is not simply preventive care. It is a matter of health equity.

For more than a decade, the NGO Caravana cu Medici has worked to close this gap by bringing volunteer doctors to underserved communities. Traditionally, these mobile clinics offered vital but temporary relief: a consultation, a diagnosis— but also uncertainty about what came next. This initiative was designed to change that.

What makes this caravan different

Supported by Boehringer Ingelheim, the program moves beyond one-day screenings by embedding continuity of care into its design.

Patients screened during caravan visits are registered on a dedicated medical platform operated by Caravana cu Medici. This enables structured follow-up, specialist referral, and longer-term monitoring. The objective is not only to identify health conditions early, but to reconnect patients to the formal healthcare system.
 

Read the whole piece on Imagine – Boehringer Ingelheim’s sustainability story hub.

At Chemours, our vision to deliver trusted chemistry is not just aspirational—it is a guide for how we lead, how we operate, and how we create value. It shapes the way we run our sites, drives how we innovate, and defines how we engage with our stakeholders. Grounded in that vision, and guided by our values of Safety, Integrity, Partnership, Ownership, and Respect, we are focused on moving our Pathway to Thrive strategy forward in a way that strengthens our company for the long term and reflects our responsibilities to customers, communities, employees, and shareholders.

Sustainability is a central part of that work—it’s part of how we run the business responsibly and how we position Chemours to succeed over time. It helps protect our privilege to operate, differentiate our portfolio, protect our communities, meet customer needs, and build resilience for the future.

In 2025, we continued to advance our Corporate Responsibility Commitment (CRC) goals. Those efforts are reflected in how we are reducing our environmental footprint, strengthening safety, and delivering for our customers.

Underscoring Our Commitment to Responsible Manufacturing

We continue to raise the bar when it comes to responsible manufacturing while producing the essential chemistries the world needs. Since 2018, we have reduced air and water process emissions of fluorinated organic chemicals by 80%. Furthermore, we continue to invest in developing advanced analytical methods that can help us better detect and understand our emissions. At the same time, we’re investing in developing improved abatement technologies to address emissions and minimize our environmental impact. This continued investment and work reflects how seriously we take our responsibility of being a good neighbor to our communities and a trusted provider of essential chemistries to our customers and partners.

Driving Climate Progress Through Operational Improvements and Innovation

We also continued to make solid progress on our climate goals. Since 2018, we have reduced Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 57%, bringing us just shy of our 2030 goal of 60%.

While most of these reductions were achieved through operational improvements, our products are also contributing to reduced emissions globally. As of year-end 2025, our low-global warming potential (GWP) products have helped avoid more than 350 million tons of CO2e emissions globally. Our absolute Scope 3 indirect GHG emissions decreased by 30% since 2018, due in large part to increased adoption of our Opteon™ low-GWP refrigerants. This is a great example of how innovation and strong partnerships across the value chain can come together to advance sustainability and drive broader climate progress.

Reinforcing Our Safety Culture

Safety remains at the center of how we operate. It’s one of our core values and is a non-negotiable expectation across our company. In 2025, we sharpened that focus by simplifying our safety aspiration to a simple and clear enterprise-wide ambition: We Strive for Zero. We delivered strong process and distribution safety results, with zero Tier 1 process safety events and zero distribution safety incidents. At the same time, our overall employee and contractor safety performance fell short of our expectations. We are addressing this by reinforcing safety fundamentals, strengthening oversight, intensifying our focus on learning and prevention, and implementing actions designed to address risk at its source.

Driving Continuous Improvement

Looking ahead, we are strengthening how we deliver against our sustainability commitments through the Chemours Business System, which we launched at the end of 2025. CBS is helping improve safety, drive more consistent and disciplined execution, shared problem-solving, and continuous improvement across the company. Through this work, teams are identifying opportunities to improve processes, reduce waste, lower energy use, and strengthen overall environmental and operational performance. Over time, this will help us progress our sustainability strategy, while also strengthening operational execution, improving risk management, and delivering long-term value.

I am grateful to our employees around the world for the work they do every day. They bring our Trusted Chemistry vision to life and drive our CRC progress forward. We have more to do, but by staying focused on our values and executing with discipline and purpose, we are building a stronger Chemours for the long term.

I invite you to explore our latest Sustainability Report and see the hard work and dedication our team put on full display as we continued to deliver against our CRC commitments.

Denise Dignam is the President and Chief Executive Office of The Chemours Company, a global chemistry company with a vision to deliver Trusted Chemistry that makes people’s lives better and helps communities thrive. 

Buildings are one of the largest drivers of energy demand. Globally, building operations account for 1/3 of all energy consumption and 26% of energy-related emissions. Most critically, up to 30% of energy purchased for commercial buildings is wasted after it is paid for. Reducing that energy waste would have a deep impact. With the May 20, 2026, launch of the BrainBox AI Trane Technologies AI Lab & Showroom, we’ve taken an important step toward that goal. 

More than a research facility, the AI Lab will bring together world-class talent and industry-leading technology to create a global innovation engine designed to accelerate next-generation AI-powered energy management systems for the built environment. By fostering collaboration among scientists, engineers, technologists and other experts, the AI Lab will advance intelligent technologies that can reduce energy use while making our energy infrastructure more resilient. 

Buildings are a crucial climate opportunity 

In the conversation about energy and climate, we tend to focus on breakthrough new technologies. But a large portion of energy waste and emissions comes from existing buildings and infrastructure that will continue in service for decades to come. The question is not how we replace them, but how we improve their operation now. The AI Lab is built to answer that core question, accelerating the development of new AI-powered tools to help reduce cost and energy waste throughout the built environment.

Many buildings waste energy because they cannot continuously adapt to changing conditions like shifts in weather, temperature, occupancy, equipment performance or fluctuating energy prices. This gap is where a significant amount of energy waste lives. AI has the potential to fundamentally change that equation, enabling systems to continuously adapt in ways that were not previously possible. 

Across sectors, AI can optimize energy management in environments where small, repeated operational changes are too great for humans to reasonably manage in real time. Modern commercial buildings embody that exact use case, with complex networks of sensors and interdependent systems along with continuously changing external factors like weather and occupancy. 

Turning building data into cost savings and emission reductions

In practice, energy management with AI means using data to anticipate building needs and adjust operations before energy is wasted. AI can, for example, pre-cool a building to avoid using energy during peak pricing windows. It can optimize energy management based on occupancy. And it can analyze data ranging from equipment performance to upcoming weather patterns to anticipate demand and adjust the system in advance. These powerful AI-driven energy management systems are delivering measurable reductions in emissions and operating costs.

What makes this shift powerful from a climate perspective is not a single dramatic change, but that AI now has the power to create continuous, incremental improvements in systems that run all day, every day. When you improve something that runs constantly, even small energy management gains translate into meaningful and scalable reductions in costs and emissions.

AI at work in the built environment

Digital technologies, like monitoring tools, dashboards and analytical platforms, have helped us better understand how the buildings are operating at any given moment. The next phase is not just visibility, it’s autonomy. The AI Lab is focused on those technologies, but intelligent systems powered by AI that continuously work in the background to enhance performance are available now and are already at work. 

These solutions are making a difference in the real world. For example, BrainBox AI implemented the AI Control solution across 600 Dollar Tree locations, saving almost 8 million kWh of energy and over $1 million in costs annually for the customer. Our AI solution enables smart, resilient buildings.

In another example, Dubai’s Meera Tower, a 52-story residential building operating in one of the most demanding climates in the world, implemented BrainBox AI’s continuous optimization solution. The new system reduced HVAC energy consumption by 42.7% in four months, without hardware upgrades or new energy sources. This was all executed through AI-enabled energy management, enabling smarter operation of the building systems already in place. These examples show that AI-enabled energy management is no longer theoretical: it’s helping buildings operate more efficiently now.

The future of energy management in buildings

When we begin viewing climate strategy through the lens of reducing the impact of existing assets, buildings stop looking like a background issue and start looking like one of our biggest opportunities. Not because they are new, but because they are everywhere, they consume enormous amounts of energy and, until recently, we did not have a practical way to run them dynamically. 

Imagine a future where buildings are not just passive energy consumers, but intelligent systems for energy management. With the development ecosystem of the AI Lab, we are helping make that future possible — accelerating the next generation of AI-enabled technologies for energy demand management at scale. 

The next phase of climate progress will be defined in part by how intelligently we operate what already exists. The AI Lab is a catalyst for that shift, advancing practical, high-impact new tools that will help us make smart buildings an essential lever in sustainability outcomes. That is the promise of AI in the built environment: helping the spaces and systems we already rely on to perform better, every hour of every day.

AI is already helping us advance our sustainability goals and our clients’. Read more about our progress in our latest Sustainability report.

The BrainBox AI Trane Technologies AI Lab is driving the frontier of artificial intelligence and innovation – across our organization and industry. Learn more about our AI lab.

Previously published by the Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program

A growing coalition of pharmaceutical companies, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and clinical research leaders came together through the Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program (Winn Awards) to train a new generation of physicians to solve one of healthcare’s most urgent challenges: improving representation in clinical trials and ensuring all communities have access to the latest advances in medicine.

As 80 talented medical students from across the country participated in the fifth annual cohort of the Winn Awards’ signature Clinical Investigator Pathway Program (Winn CIPP) at 18 top research institutions, leaders across sectors are reaffirming a shared commitment to ensuring that clinical trials better reflect and serve the populations most affected by disease.

The Winn Awards is a national initiative focused on preparing physicians and researchers to design and conduct clinical trials with a strong emphasis on community engagement, trust-building, and improving participation in research. Through immersive education, mentorship, and hands-on clinical research experiences, the program equips trainees with the tools needed to help advance more effective and accessible healthcare for all communities. The Winn CIPP accomplishes this by teaching medical students about the importance of offering clinical trials, exposing them to community-centered research, and helping them understand the pathways to becoming a physician-scientist who works on clinical trials.

What makes the initiative unique is not only its mission, but also the breadth of organizations working together toward this shared goal.

Established by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation (BMS Foundation), an independent charitable organization, in 2020, the Winn Awards are supported by a growing coalition of funding partners and collaborators committed to strengthening the future clinical research workforce and improving participation in clinical trials. Funders supporting the 2026 Winn CIPP cohort include the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, Gilead Sciences, Amgen, Genentech, and AstraZeneca. These organizations join academic institutions, research centers, mentors, and nonprofit collaborators nationwide in supporting a growing movement to strengthen the future clinical research workforce.

“Clinical trials shape the future of medicine, but the future of medicine depends on building a clinical research workforce prepared to engage all communities,” said Dr. Robert A. Winn, newly appointed Vice President and Director of Fox Chase Cancer Center and namesake of the program. “The Winn Awards exists because leaders across sectors recognize that improving participation in clinical trials is not the responsibility of any one organization alone. It requires partnership, collaboration, and investment in people.”

Since its launch, the Winn CIPP has experienced rapid national growth, drawing hundreds of applicants annually from medical schools across the country. Students selected for Winn CIPP participate in a six-week summer externship that introduces them to clinical research early in their careers through service-learning experiences, mentorship, and educational programming focused on community-engaged research and clinical trial design.

As the program drew to a close, participants and partnering organizations came together from across the nation for the Winn CIPP Symposium, the program’s annual culminating event where students had the opportunity to connect with one another and learn from clinical research leaders. The symposium was held at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois from July 9-11 this year.

“At the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, our work is grounded in expanding access to care and investing in the people and systems that make better health possible,” said Catharine Grimes, president of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation. “We established the Winn Awards to help address persistent gaps in clinical research, and we are proud to support the Winn Clinical Investigator Pathway Program (CIPP) as it continues to grow and expand its impact. What we are seeing across these cohorts is a powerful pipeline of future leaders committed to more inclusive, community-centered research — and that progress will shape the future of clinical trials.” 

“Advancing clinical research requires collaboration across sectors and sustained investment in future leaders,” said Ponda Motsepe-Ditshego, vice president, Inclusive Global Health and Impact, Amgen. “The Winn Awards is helping build a pipeline of physicians and researchers prepared to strengthen connections between research and the communities it serves.”

“Genentech is honored to support initiatives that expand opportunities for future clinical researchers and address barriers preventing many communities from accessing the latest medical breakthroughs,” said Joy Russell, Vice President, US External Affairs, Genentech. “The Winn Awards represents an important investment in advancing community-centered care and building an inclusive future of healthcare for all.”

“AstraZeneca is dedicated to ensuring our clinical research includes people from a wide range of backgrounds, communities, and patient populations, so the findings better reflect the people these medicines are meant to help. As such, we are proud to support efforts that help foster innovation in community engagement to promote greater engagement in research,” said Roula Qaqish, Vice President, Head of Medical Affairs, US Oncology, AstraZeneca. “Programs like the Winn CIPP are helping prepare future leaders to advance research that can improve outcomes for all patients.”

The Winn Awards continues to grow as a national platform for collaboration among industry, academia, healthcare institutions, and nonprofit organizations united by a shared belief: better science requires broader participation, stronger community partnerships, and intentional investment in the future clinical research.

Learn more about joining this growing coalition of supporters dedicated to advancing Better Science For All at winnawards.org.

View the Winn CIPP Symposium program.

Read about this year’s talented students in the Winn CIPP Cohort 5 Bio Book.

About the Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program

Overall Winn Awards program

The Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program (Winn Awards) is transforming the future of clinical research. Through rigorous training, mentorship, and hands-on experience, we empower researchers with the skills and expertise to engage a broader range of patients — ensuring that the communities enrolled in trials reflect the populations affected by disease. By bridging this gap, we help advance treatments that are safer and more effective for all.

Visit www.winnawards.org for more information.

The Winn Clinical Investigator Pathway Program (CIPP)

The Winn Clinical Investigator Pathway Program is an immersive 6-week summer experience that introduces medical students to clinical research early in their training, instilling a research and community-oriented perspective that guides them throughout their careers. This foundation ensures that when they embark on their own research or patient care, clinical trials remain a key consideration.

Visit www.winnawards.org for more information.

Verizon

At a glance

• More time for what matters: Mannequin Madness owner Judi Henderson estimates that using AI tools gives her back 20% more time through increased productivity.
• AI at work: Henderson uses AI to automate tasks, respond to customers, create website images and blog content, and prepare for vendors.
• Skills to adapt and grow: Verizon’s free courses and events helped Henderson strengthen her AI, digital marketing and social media skills to reach customers and run her business more efficiently.

Judi Henderson has “always been curious about the next, newest thing.” That’s how she found herself buying a single mannequin in 1999 for an art project—and ended up an entrepreneur.

Henderson, 69, is the owner of Mannequin Madness, a thriving mannequin sales, rental and recycling business in Oakland, California. The business has grown thanks in part to her willingness to keep learning about new technology, from digital marketing and social media to practical AI tools for small businesses. Verizon’s free skill-development programs have helped her build those skills and put them to work in her business.

Henderson’s experience illustrates the kind of practical skill-building the Verizon Small Business AI Accelerator aims to provide to small-business owners over the course of the 12-week immersive program. Small-business owners can explore Verizon’s free AI courses and resources to discover new ways to put AI to work.

How digital skills helped this small business reach more customers

When Henderson launched Mannequin Madness, the internet was still relatively new and social media didn’t exist as a marketing tool. Learning to embrace new technology became essential to reaching customers beyond her local market.

“When I first got into the business, many of my competitors were slow to embrace technology. They are no longer around,” Henderson says. “[Embracing technology] allowed me to reach a much broader audience. I couldn’t survive on my local customers only.”

Mannequin Madness is a specialized business. On a day-to-day basis, Henderson might be loaning her mannequins, typically recycled from department stores, to fashion students and luxury stores or providing them for events. Sometimes her warehouse is rented for photo or video shoots, too.

Free online courses and events through Verizon Small Business Digital Ready have helped Henderson sharpen her digital marketing skills, including determining which social media platforms are most strategic for her business. “[They] allowed me to really zero in on where’s the best place for me to spend my time and money,” Henderson says.

How this small-business owner uses AI tools for her website and content creation

With inspiration from Verizon’s skill development courses, Henderson has embraced AI as a tool for business. “I, like many business owners, felt a little scared of AI,” she says. “But I decided to be curious to find out what was there.”

Now, she uses AI tools to generate images for her website, automate tasks, respond to customers, prepare for vendors and create content for her blog. She estimates using AI gives her back 20% more time in productivity alone.

AI is my new friend. It’s just like having another staff member.

“AI is my new friend. It’s just like having another staff member and it’s available 24/7,” Henderson says. “And I’m pretty sure if I had not initially taken some of those courses on AI in the program, I would not be embracing it with as much gusto as I am now.”

Beyond learning new skills, Henderson has also made sure her business stays connected with the right technology. She’s a Verizon Business customer, using mobile devices, a tablet and a smartwatch to manage her growing operations. “They upgraded my equipment with signing up for a [promotional business] package,” Henderson says. “So I now have an updated phone, especially great for taking photos, which are critical for my business.”

Practical AI learning for what comes next

As the retail landscape changes, Henderson is dedicated to changing with it. “AI [feels] like a whole new world, and I like that it gets me excited,” she says. “I feel like I could be on the cutting edge of something and that is appealing to me.”

That appetite for learning also motivated Henderson to take advantage of Verizon’s live coaching events, as well as one-on-one reviews with small-business experts. She appreciated seeing people of all ages and races taking part. “You can see people who kind of look like you, who are giving you advice. I like that,” she says.

“I’m amazed that something that’s free has so much value,” Henderson says. “Verizon gives us the tools we need, making sure small businesses are not left behind.”

Discover free AI courses and resources designed to help small-business owners put AI to work.

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NEW YORK, September 8, 2026 /3BL/ – Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. (G&A), a leader in corporate sustainability consulting and research, today announced Resilient Leadership, an executive webinar hosted in collaboration with S&P Global, to be held Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT. Registration is now open at ga-institute.com/webinars/resilient-leadership.

The session, convening on the eve of New York Climate Week, brings together North American companies to explore how sustainability is being embedded into business strategy, risk management, and long-term value creation. Whether an organization is preparing for its first participation in S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) or refining a long-established program, the webinar will offer practical, actionable insight from long-term CSA participants.

As market expectations continue to evolve, companies face growing pressure to understand their most material sustainability risks, manage complex impacts, respond to stakeholder expectations, and identify opportunities that strengthen resilience. Attendees will hear directly from leaders at companies with 25 years of experience responding to the CSA, on how they leverage sustainability insights, benchmark against peers, and translate performance data into strategic action.

The discussion will also highlight how leading companies use the CSA process not only as an annual disclosure exercise, but as a strategic tool to continuously evaluate and improve performance. Drawing on the experience of long-term participants, panelists will examine how the CSA process has evolved over more than 25 years and how companies use its insights to inform decision-making, engage stakeholders, and better position themselves in a changing sustainability landscape. The session will close with a forward-looking conversation on the key sustainability trends shaping global markets.

What Attendees Will Gain

• Insights into how leading companies embed sustainability into business strategy, governance, and risk management
• Details on how organizations identify material sustainability risks, manage impacts, and uncover opportunities for resilience
• Practical examples of how companies use the CSA process to benchmark performance, improve data quality, engage internal teams, and support continuous improvement
• Peer insights from companies with 25 years of CSA participation and long-standing experience as sustainability leaders
• A forward-looking view of global sustainability trends influencing markets, investors, regulation, and corporate strategy

Confirmed Discussion Leaders

• Louis D. Coppola, CEO, G&A Institute
• Robert Dornau, Head of Corporate Solutions and Engagement S&P Global Energy Sustainable1
• Mike Wallace, Strategic Advisor, Corporate Solutions & Engagement, S&P Global
• Maureen Mazurek, Chief Sustainability and EHS Officer, BD – Becton, Dickinson and Company

Additional speakers to be announced. 

To register, visit ga-institute.com/webinars/resilient-leadership.

ABOUT GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE, INC. (www.ga-institute.com)

Founded in 2006, Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. (G&A) is a sustainability consulting and research firm headquartered in New York City. G&A helps corporate and investor clients recognize, understand, and develop winning strategies for sustainability and ESG issues to address stakeholder and shareholder concerns. G&A’s proprietary, comprehensive full-suite process for sustainability reporting is designed to help organizations achieve sustainability leadership in their industry and sector and maximize return on investment for sustainability initiatives.

CONTACT:
Louis D. Coppola
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc.
Tel 646.430.8230 ext 14
Email: lcoppola@ga-institute.com

Twenty-five years ago on September 11, 2001, amid dust, ash and immense destruction, first responders from across New York City charged directly into danger without hesitation, displaying unimaginable courage, sacrifice and service. At Motorola Solutions, that dedication inspires the company’s mission to help people be their best in the moments that matter. The Motorola Solutions Foundation reflects this commitment by partnering with organizations that support first responders, their families and the communities they serve.  

Turning memory into impact

To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, employee volunteers across major Motorola Solutions U.S. hubs – including Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C. and Nashville – are uniting to preserve the memory of that day and give back to local communities. On September 11, employees will join 50,000 volunteers across 50 U.S. cities for the 9/11 Day Meal Packing event, helping prepare 18 million meals for Americans facing food insecurity. More than 200 Motorola Solutions employees have participated the past eight years – an embodiment of their deep passion for service and their steadfast commitment to driving meaningful change where it matters most. 

A tribute to service

Giving back in honor of 9/11 extends beyond a single charitable effort; it stands as a living tribute to the selflessness displayed 25 years ago. By supporting local communities, our volunteers transform remembrance into compassion, ensuring this legacy of service becomes a driving force for good.

Discover how the passionate people of Motorola Solutions are transforming lives and helping communities across the globe.

 

In this bonus episode of Rethinking EHS, host Beatrice Bizzaro (HPC Italy, Inogen Alliance Global Water Working Group Lead) is joined by C. Rajadurai from Cholamandalam MS Risk Services (India) to examine three challenges affecting industrial facilities: recurring river flooding, extreme rainfall, and water scarcity. Through three practical case studies, the conversation explores how modelling, asset-level assessment, stormwater management, groundwater recharge, and water-source diversification can reduce disruption and strengthen long-term business continuity.

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Time Stamps

• 0:00 Introduction: Water-Related Climate Risks
• 1:32 Meet C. Rajadurai
• 1:45 Case Study 1: Recurring River Flooding
• 2:16 Reservoir Releases, Tides & Flood Risk
• 5:25 Protecting Critical Equipment
• 7:39 Case Study 2: Extreme Rainfall
• 8:29 Rainfall Thresholds & Infrastructure Resilience
• 10:42 Assessing Stormwater Network Capacity
• 12:34 Stormwater Reuse & Groundwater Recharge
• 15:35 Case Study 3: Water Scarcity
• 16:16 Diversifying Water Sources
• 18:08 Water Security & Business Continuity
• 18:27 Turning Climate Risk into Engineering Action
• 19:49 Closing Remarks & Global Collaboration

Guest Quotes

C. Rajadurai:
“Source diversification is not only a water management strategy; it is part of business resilience and the business continuity plan.”

C. Rajadurai:
“Climate risk assessment becomes valuable when findings reach engineering drawings and planning teams, translating risk into on-the-ground implementation.”