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ESG Investing: An Accelerator For Gender Balance, Diversity And Inclusion In Workplaces
Responsible investment, including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing, is becoming increasingly mainstream. The last 18 months have seen an exponential increase in the number of institutional investors and funds incorporating various ESG metrics. It’s estimated that in excess of USD 17.5 trillion worth of professionally managed portfolios now include key elements of ESG assessments.…
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Firmenich Upgrades Its Global EDGE Certification To The Second Level EDGE Move
Zug, Switzerland, March 15th, 2021 – Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company announced that it has upgraded its global EDGE Certification to the second level EDGE Move after an initial global certification in 2018 at the first level EDGE Assess The EDGE solution allows organizations to transform their workplaces by measuring, accelerating…
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Gender Equality in the Workplace: Going Beyond Women on the Board
The S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2021 has been released and as part of it, S&P Global’s ESG experts have published a number of interesting articles. It includes the article “Gender Equality in the Workplace: going beyond women on the board” which presents insightful data from gender equality and diversity questions in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment…
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International Flavors & Fragrances Becomes First Company To Achieve Global EDGE Move Certification
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) is the first company to be granted global certification at the EDGE Move level for 21 countries, demonstrating a strong commitment to gender equality in the workplace. We are proud to announce that IFF is globally certified at the EDGE Move level. Aniela Unguresan, Co-Founder of the EDGE Certified Foundation…