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Five ways climate change is impacting humanitarian crises around the world

Cisco CSR

The effects of climate change are all around us. Yet those most affected by climate change are already vulnerable populations, many of whom are living in some of the poorest countries in the world. Climate-driven extreme weather emergencies such as storms and droughts can damage crops and lead to massive food shortages.

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Aflac 2021 Business & Sustainability Report: Environment and Climate Risk Management

3BL Media

This is built on the belief that environmentally and socially responsible business actions serve to enhance corporate reputation, improve talent recruitment and retention and attract new business. To learn more about Aflac Incorporated’s Climate Change 2021 submission to CDP and 2020 TCFD report, click here.

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From the Fifth Third 2021 TCFD Report: Letter from the Chairman & CEO

3BL Media

We have worked hard to become an industry leader in environmental sustainability since we launched our program and began our journey in 2011. We recognize that climate change is bigger than us, as individuals or a company. We believe it is important to our stakeholders to provide transparency along our journey.

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Strengthening the ‘Environment’ Component of ESG: How Financial Institutions Can Bring Green Financing into the Mainstream in India

James Militzer

The growing focus on ESG frameworks is being driven by a conscious and aware investor community, and by increasing global pressure from legislators, advocates and the general public to leverage business for social good. The chart below illustrates these findings: Source: Fair Finance India.

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The Time is Right to Mandate Financial Reporting of ESG Issues

Steven Mintz

Sustainability issues can be related to the environment (E) society (S), and corporate governance (G). In that sustainability and ESG are similar terms, but sustainability is used in a broader sense to include climate change, for example. the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) was founded in 2011.

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How Cisco supports entrepreneurship today and every day

Cisco CSR

Through our social investments, Cisco aims to support both micro- and small-business entrepreneurs as well as startup entrepreneurs who create jobs and contribute to community development and economic growth. Climate entrepreneurs need access to fast and founder-friendly capital,” says Enduring Planet co-founder Dimitry Gershenson.

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Top 40 MBAs double down on commitments to sustainability

Corporate Knights

Up one position to second place in the Better World list, Warwick dates its earliest modules on sustainability to 2011. Through a sustainable business research cluster at Herbert, professors worked with researchers from Harvard University and Oxford University on accounting for climate change.