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Accelerating DE&I Progress with Third-Party Certification Systems: The Importance of Objective, Measurable Evidence
Third-party certification systems play a pivotal role in ensuring accountability, transparency, and trust across industries and markets. They help organizations meet rigorous standards, and enhance stakeholder trust by providing reliable, verified data and information. As ISEAL (the global membership organization for credible sustainability standards) highlights, “Sustainability standards continue to be one of the most important…
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Addressing Equality, Equity, and Inclusion with Voluntary Sustainability Standards
At the recent G7 Summit in Apulia, Italy, global leaders tackled numerous critical issues, including a focused discussion on advancing gender equality through private-sector collaboration and gender equality certification systems. Independent certifications, such as EDGE Certification, are part of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) systems. These market-driven mechanisms incentivize companies to align their economic activities with…
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Iberdrola attains Global EDGE Move Certification
Iberdrola is globally certified at the EDGE Move level. Achieving global EDGE Move Certification exemplifies Iberdrola’s commitment to systemically improving gender equity by ensuring equal pay for equivalent work, strengthening the effectiveness of policies and practices to ensure equitable career flows, and improving the representation of women at senior levels to close the gender gap.…
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Ringier attains EDGE Move Recertification and EDGEplus
Ringier AG has successfully renewed its EDGE Certification and attained the EDGE Move level. EDGE Move, the second of three EDGE Certification levels, shows progress towards realizing gender equity in the workplace and underlines Ringier’s continued commitment to building a more equitable and inclusive working environment. Ringier has also achieved EDGEplus Recertification signaling its continued…