• Sustainability

Managing Corporate Risk Must Include Understanding Climate Risk

• corporate sustainability
• ESG
• nature based solutions

by David Kuhn, Lead, Corporate Resilience, World Wildlife Fund A growing number of companies have responded to the climate change threat by championing sustainable solutions like deforestation-free production and clean energy. But as laudable and essential as these efforts are, climate change has progressed to the point where sustainability alone is no longer a sufficient […]

• Sustainability

The Push to Make Amazon a Better Corporate Citizen

• Amazon
• corporate sustainability
• plastic
• plastic pollution
• sustainable packaging

Last month, online retail giant Amazon announced its  Climate Pledge Fund–a $2 billion that will invest in companies that develop innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions. Shortly after Amazon also announced that it will be renaming the Seattle NHL stadium, Climate Pledge Arena as a nod to its corporate climate commitments (Amazon released more details […]

• Sustainability

Amazon Launches $2B Clean Tech Venture Fund

• Amazon
• carbon emissions
• corporate sustainability
• Jeff Bezos

Yesterday, online retail giant Amazon announced its  Climate Pledge Fund–a $2 billion that will invest in companies that develop innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions. As the Verge explained, The fund will help Amazon and other companies adhere to The Climate Pledge initiative it started in September 2019. That pledge committed the company, and others […]

• Climate Change

U.S. Companies Can’t be “For” Climate Action and Keep Funding Climate Denial

• Climate Denial
• corporate sustainability
• F500
• politics

Yesterday, eleven leading environmental and sustainable business organizations published an open letter urging the CEOs of Corporate America to step up their engagement on climate policy.

Why This Matters: Major corporations can’t be for fighting climate change if their political spending tells the exact opposite story.

• Forests

One Cool Thing: Free Beer for Life

• beer
• Busch
• corporate sustainability

If you’re a fan of Busch beer then this one’s for you: As Fast and Company reported, this Saturday Busch Beer will sponsor a secret pop-up shop (the “Busch Pop Up Schop”) that will last for one day—in a national forest somewhere in America. Attendees will receive free merchandise, with one winner getting free Busch […]

• People

Millennial Spotlight: Jenny Hogrefe of KIND®

• climate change
• corporate sustainability

Jenny Hogrefe is the Wellness and Sustainability Manager at KIND Snacks. KIND is a food company with a mission to spread kindness and create snacks made with nutritionally-dense ingredients that avoid secret ingredients, artificial flavors, preservatives, and sweeteners. ODP: How did you choose your career in corporate sustainability? JH: I was raised in a very […]