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VistaJet Progresses Its Sustainability Initiatives and Calls on Business Aviation to Accelerate Transition to Net Zero

VistaJet Progresses Its Sustainability Initiatives and Calls on Business Aviation to Accelerate Transition to Net Zero

London, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – VistaJet, the first and only global business aviation company, has renewed its commitment to cleaner aviation, its pledge to be carbon neutral by 2025, and its resolve to address sustainability issues in the industry. To capture the progress the company has made with its market-leading environmental sustainability initiatives, VistaJet has published “A [...]

Ashland Innovative Supplier Partnership Powers Sustainable, Profitable Growth for Local Farmers and Small Villages in India

Ashland Innovative Supplier Partnership Powers Sustainable, Profitable Growth for Local Farmers and Small Villages in India

WILMINGTON, Del., April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Ashland Global Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ASH) today announced the first of a series of sustainable business initiatives resulting in positive economic, environment and social impacts from the company’s recently announced Responsible Solvers™ program. Fueled by the company’s purpose “to responsibly solve for a better world” and deep commitment to social [...]

Kyung Hee, Stanford Universities to Conduct Joint Research on Sustainability in Asia

Kyung Hee, Stanford Universities to Conduct Joint Research on Sustainability in Asia

SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kyung Hee University has signed an agreement with Stanford University to conduct joint research on sustainability in Asia, the Seoul school officials said Wednesday. Under the agreement signed last month, the two schools will partner to research various topics related to the enhancement of sustainability in Asia, create exchange [...]

FourKites Unveils Robust Net Zero Initiative at World’s Largest Global Supply Chain Sustainability Event in Amsterdam

FourKites Unveils Robust Net Zero Initiative at World’s Largest Global Supply Chain Sustainability Event in Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – FourKites, provider of the world’s leading real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced its new Net Zero initiative to help the world’s leading companies achieve their organizational goals to reduce supply chain emissions. As part of this announcement, FourKites unveiled Sustainability Hub, a suite of analytics tools to provide better visibility [...]

Technology Leaders Launch SustainableIT.org to Address Climate Change

Technology Leaders Launch SustainableIT.org to Address Climate Change

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, a think tank of global technology leaders and Delphix, the industry leader for DevOps test data management, announced the formation of SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit organization focused on advancing global sustainability through technology leadership. “Sustainability is the megatrend of the century,” said Jedidiah Yueh, Founding Director of SustainableIT.org and [...]

Hitachi Energy Achieves 100 pct Fossil Free Electricity in Own Operations

Hitachi Energy Achieves 100 pct Fossil Free Electricity in Own Operations

Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hitachi Energy today announced that it has achieved the first-step target set out in its Sustainability 2030 plan – the use of 100% fossil-free electricity in its own operations(1*). The company is driving towards being carbon-neutral in its own operations by 2030(2**), in line with its Purpose, ‘Advancing a sustainable [...]

CNH Industrial Maintains its Top Position in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices

CNH Industrial Maintains its Top Position in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices

London, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI) has been included for the 11th consecutive year in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) World and Europe. As of Nov 12, 2021, CNH Industrial achieved the highest score (88/100) out of 126 companies assessed in the Machinery and Electrical Equipment Industry in the S&P Global Corporate [...]

IFRS Foundation Announces International Sustainability Standards Board, Consolidation with CDSB and VRF, and Publication of Prototype Disclosure Requirements

IFRS Foundation Announces International Sustainability Standards Board, Consolidation with CDSB and VRF, and Publication of Prototype Disclosure Requirements

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – As world leaders meet in Glasgow for COP26, the UN global summit to address the critical and urgent issue of climate change, the IFRS Foundation Trustees (Trustees) announce three significant developments to provide the global financial markets with high-quality disclosures on climate and other sustainability issues: The formation of a new [...]