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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” For 2002, it’s King of the Castle.”. Is it the Ideal Corporate Citizen?

Academics 301
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Should corporations be activists?

Corporate Knights

Hawn and Aharon Mohliver, a strategy and entrepreneurship professor at London Business School, tracked shareholder responses to American company rankings on the annual corporate equality index (a measure of social responsibility) between 2002 and 2018. How do we propel companies beyond “islands of sustainability”?

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Forest Certification: Committed to Third-Party Certification

3BL Media

PotlatchDeltic first became third-party certified to standards developed by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) in 2002 and by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) in 2004. However, SFI also requires a much broader involvement in areas such as research, community outreach, education, and climate change.

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Patagonia made Earth its sole shareholder. Will other companies follow suit?

Corporate Knights

As for Chouinard, the 83-year-old billionaire will be sacrificing assets estimated at US$3 billion and profits of $100 million a year that will go to the trust and non-profit to fight climate change and lobby for environmental and social justice. Later it upped that ante, to 1% of sales, to providing more consistent support.

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Accelerating Our Ambitions: 3M's 2022 Global Impact Report

3BL Media

Science for climate: Climate change remains one of our greatest challenges, we continue to focus on driving innovations to help provide climate solutions in our operations, products and communities. Since 2002, we have reduced our absolute carbon footprint by 75.0%. By the end of 2021, 45.2%

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments. Smaller and nimbler, cities are becoming showpieces of successful climate action, and the protagonists of this spectacle of municipal leadership are increasingly women.

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COVID-19, 3D printing and the digital supply chain reckoning

GreenBiz

Dave Evans, founder and CEO of Fictiv and a former Ford engineer, said the pandemic has helped underscore the notion that digital manufacturing networks — ones that allow organizations to be more agile when it comes to sourcing — will be key to ensuring resilience in the long term, as disruptions brought on by climate change become more frequent.