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4 Trends We’re Tracking On How America’s Most JUST Companies Are Managing the AI Revolution — JUST Capital
2024 was a transformative year that marked AI’s emergence as a defining force in corporate America. Integration of generative AI kicked into high gear – as did public awareness and media scrutiny of both the revolutionary potential of AI and its unknown implications for business, workers, and society. According to JUST Capital’s annual Americans’ Views on Business Survey, 70% of the American public believe that CEOs from large companies have a role to play in ensuring the ethical use of AI.
America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2024 — JUST Capital
2024 has already been a big year for environmental and climate action in the private sector. Governments of all sizes have implemented new measures that will require certain companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks.
America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2023 — JUST Capital
The “E” in ESG remains a core focus for corporate leaders – along with regulators and lawmakers. Some state and federal legislators continue to challenge companies’ environmental actions. At the same time, companies are grappling with new sustainability disclosure requirements coming out of the EU and what’s to come from the SEC‘s rule on climate-related disclosures.
36 Industry Leaders for Environmental Performance in 2023 — JUST Capital
As this year’s Earth Day approaches, the world continues to stare down massive global consequences if governments, businesses, and other institutions do not take ambitious climate action. Released last month, the IPCC’s 2023 Climate Change Report signals that a vast reduction in fossil fuel use is urgently needed to slow global warming and ensure a livable, sustainable future.
These 3 Companies Are Leading on Diversity Disclosure in 2023 — JUST Capital
Over our years of polling the public, we’ve heard time and again that Americans agree it is important for companies to make workers their top priority. They want to see companies pay their workers a fair, living wage, create jobs in communities that need them, and establish diverse and inclusive workplaces that provide opportunities for all employees to succeed.
The 2022 Top 100 U.S. Companies Supporting Healthy Families and Communities — JUST Capital
Communities and families across the United States have faced unprecedented challenges to their physical, financial, and social well-being over the past year. From the ongoing pandemic to climate-related disasters to persistent racial injustices, all against the backdrop of continuously rising inflation and declining real wages, Americans’ health and well-being has been at risk in new and compounding ways.
The 5 JUST 100 Companies Leading on Gender Board Diversity — JUST Capital
Over two years into the pandemic, the strain it’s placed on working women continues to persist. The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the U.S. economy added 428,000 jobs in April, 65% of which went to women. At the same time, 181,000 women left the workforce last month – compared to 130,000 men. Additional analysis from the National Women’s Law Center also finds that over 1 million fewer women are working or looking for work, as of April, compared to February 2020.
Companies Preparing for New SEC Climate Reporting Standards Should Look at Those Already Leading the Way — JUST Capital
(ArtistGNDphotography/Getty Images) With March’s SEC vote to propose new climate reporting standards, corporate America is set to soon face new, robust requirements in how they publicly disclose climate impact data – including Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Currently, 57% of the companies JUST Capital ranks report their Scope 1 and 2 emissions, which include those that come from company-owned operations and those that come from purchased energy, respectively.
Companies Need to Consider These Four Factors When Setting a Climate Target — JUST Capital
Coming out of COP26, the role of investors and companies in addressing the climate crisis is clearer than ever. The UN’s two-week annual climate conference saw notable moves from the private sector to finance and standardize the transition toward a zero carbon economy. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, a coalition of over 450 asset managers, banks, and insurers, announced that it now has $130 trillion of capital committed to helping economies reach net zero emissions by 2050.
More Corporate Climate Commitments Are Essential to Limiting the Effects of Global Warming — JUST Capital
by Laura Thornton, Shannon Cabral September 21, 2021 Climate news has grown more direct and more dire. The 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report’s harrowing language makes clear that humanity needs to take sweeping action now or risk the severe impacts of climate change.
Calls for Transparency Around Corporate Political Spend Are Growing Louder. Just 31% of America’s Largest Companies Currently Disclose. — JUST Capital
Calls from both the American public and shareholders for greater transparency into corporate spending on political campaigns and lobbying efforts are not new, but they have grown louder and more insistent in recent years. Corporate America’s response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 brought greater attention to if, and how, companies disclose their lobbying spend and contributions they make to political candidates.
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