Sustainability is an increasingly important issue in today’s global supply chains. Supply chains have an enormous impact on employees, on the environment, and the communities where factories and suppliers are located. Thomson Reuters is hosting an event in New York bringing together business leaders, law firms and United Nations officials to examine best practices in corporate …
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Analyzing the news on climate change
This post was written by John Duprey, technology architect at Thomson Reuters Introduced in time for this week’s UN Climate Summit 2014 and Climate Week NYC, Sustainability Analytics, a new tool from Thomson Reuters, captures and reports changes in interest levels and examines the appearance and impact of major climate-related events, discussions and campaigns across …
- September 23, 2014
- Scott Augustin
Highlights from the Thomson Reuters Sustainability blog
Thomson Reuters is about bringing transparency, trust and insight around important information needed by professionals to work and engage in society. The sustainability space and the thinkers who are driving it are an important part of this larger network of information needed by our customers. Sustainability.ThomsonReuters.com provides regular insights on emerging threads in the global field of …
- September 12, 2014
- Susan Martin
Sustainability is fundamental to the law
Many people may not associate the law as being relevant to sustainability. On Thomson Reuters sustainability, we see it as fundamental. Abuse of basic human rights is at least as damaging to the long term stability and prosperity as almost any form of environmental damage. How well we take care of each other, and codify that care, is core …
- July 23, 2014
- Tim Nixon
Sustainability at Thomson Reuters – highlighted at AALL
As a large business with operations across the world, Thomson Reuters is committed to responsible and sustainable business practices as demonstrated through our daily decisions, our work in local communities and also through the products we offer. And at the annual AALL conference this week, we will be highlighting these business practices. Last year, Thomson Reuters …
- July 15, 2014
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters offers daily insights on new Sustainability blog
Sustainability.ThomsonReuters.com launched a blog this week, which will provide regular, nearly daily insights on emerging threads in the global field of Sustainability. Like the Thomson Reuters Sustainability website, the blog will be managed by Tim Nixon, who is returning to Eagan, Minn., after a four-year stint in Switzerland, and will now be focused exclusively on …
- June 23, 2014
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters and U.N. Environment Programme to collaborate on Executive Perspectives on Sustainability
Thomson Reuters and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have announced collaboration on Executive Perspectives on Sustainability – an award-winning website that hosts global conversations among world leaders and offers unique insights on sustainability-related issues. Pulling in key voices from politics, non-governmental organizations and corporations, Executive Perspectives explores issues and questions with significant environmental impact, …
- April 10, 2014
- Alex Cook
Thomson Reuters sustainability website honored by PR Daily
Thomson Reuters Sustainability website has been named Best Publication by Ragan PR Daily’s 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. Sustainability was launched in September 2012 to be the voice of Thomson Reuters on topics ranging from climate, energy and health, to law and corporate governance. The site features key voices from politics, non-governmental organizations and corporations as …
- April 7, 2014
- Alex Cook
Tim Nixon moderates panel on transparency and compliance at Global Ethics Summit
In the world today, transparency continues to be of utmost importance for businesses. Tim Nixon, managing editor for sustainability.thomsonreuters.com, moderated a panel at the Global Ethics Summit last week that discussed transparency of global supply chains and third party compliance. The panelists included: Kim McMath, chief ethics and compliance officer, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.; Mark J. Ohringer, …
- March 25, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
How did we save more than 68,000 trees?
The Thomson Reuters 2012 Carbon Disclosure Project score (CDP) was released this week and it has increased to 95 from 61 in 2011. We reduced our carbon footprint to 496,000 metric tons carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), which is a 2.4 percent reduction from 2011. This reduction saves Thomson Reuters $2,385,450 which is equivalent to 68,815 trees! CDP …
- September 13, 2013
- Susan Martin