Day: 22 September 2021

Prudential Financial 2020 ESG Report Details Company Transformation

Stuart Mitchell

Prudential’s 2020 ESG Report, titled “Transformation,” highlights the sustainable actions and initiatives the company executed, advanced and, in some cases, accelerated throughout the extraordinary events of 2020. Replacing the company’s annual Sustainability Report, the ESG Report underscores Prudential’s continued efforts to meet the evolving needs of its customers, employees, shareholders and communities and to fulfill the company’s purpose of solving the financial challenges of our changing world. Amid the challenges that persist today, Prudential’s commitment to sustainable environmental, social and governance practices is more critical than ever before. This report…

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Kimberly-Clark Reports Progress Toward Its 2030 Sustainability Ambitions

Stuart Mitchell

 Kimberly-Clark has published its annual report on sustainability, providing the first update on the company’s global progress toward its 2030 sustainability strategy and goals, aimed at addressing the social and environmental challenges of the next decade with commitments to improve the lives and well-being of 1 billion people in underserved communities around the world with the smallest environmental footprint. “Reflecting on the past year, I am incredibly proud of how Kimberly-Clark and our people responded in a powerful way when the world needed us the most,” said Mike Hsu, Chairman…

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Doconomy and Parley for the Oceans partner to accelerate climate and plastic waste solutions through impact tech innovation

Stuart Mitchell

The impact tech company Doconomy, providing banks with carbon and water footprint calculations for every transaction, and Parley for the Oceans, a global environmental organization with a futurist’s approach to environmentalism, today announce they are entering into a long-term partnership to boost solutions to the interconnected climate and plastic crises. The partners will work together to quantify the unseen environmental costs of consumption decisions in ways that empower individuals, businesses and governments to align spending with climate action and solutions, focusing initially on carbon, water and plastic. Delivering to the…

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Vital Energi to help the City of London in drive towards net zero

Stuart Mitchell

Vital Energi have been awarded a contract by the City of London Corporation to guarantee energy savings of over £480,000 a year and carbon savings of over 1,000 tonnes a year, helping the governing body of the Square Mile to take major strides towards the ambitious target of net zero carbon emissions by 2027 for its corporate estate. The project will be delivered through the Greater London Authority’s Retrofit Accelerator framework designed to help make London’s non-domestic public buildings and assets more energy efficient, and the works will to be…

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ILO to launch World Social Protection Report 2020-22

Stuart Mitchell

The International Labour Organization (ILO) issued its World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads – in pursuit of a better future on Wednesday 1 September. This flagship report gives a global overview of recent developments in social protection systems, including social protection floors, and covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on new data, it offers a broad range of global, regional and country statistics on social protection coverage, the benefits provided and related public expenditure. The report also identifies protection gaps and sets out key…

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