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United Strengthens Sustainability Commitment Airline supports organizations focused on clean-technology innovation, recycling strategies, and grassroots environmental education and justice On May 21, 2021 United announced it has teamed up with more than a dozen new environmental, nonprofit partners to advance sustainability efforts across the airline’s hub cities as well as Hawaii, complementing the airline’s commitment to become 100% green and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 100% by 2050. Among the 16 new partners are Carbon180 and RMI, which have worked with United to support decarbonization and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) initiatives at a policy level; Delta Institute and Liberty Hill, which have participated in listening sessions and awareness events with United employees; and Galveston Bay Foundation and Kanu Hawaii, with which United employees volunteered in Houston and on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Kauai in local cleanups and sustainable agriculture activities throughout Earth Month.
First agreement in Canada to reduce the carbon impact of air travel Edmonton International Airport (EIA) and Air Canada are signing a new partnership to reduce carbon emissions and advance a green and sustainable aviation sector. The EIA-Air Canada Sustainability Partnership aims to reduce the carbon impact of air travel with both organizations working together to test emerging green technologies at EIA's Airport City Sustainability Campus, an ecosystem that EIA created to foster environmental innovation. The partnership reflects both corporations' pledges to sustainability and reducing carbon emissions to a net-zero future. The EIA-Air Canada Sustainability Partnership will focus on initiatives that will promote a cleaner environment and include the following:
United Strengthens Sustainability Commitment Through Collaboration With More Than a Dozen New Community Organizations Published 2 hours ago United works with more environmental, nonprofit partners than any other major U.S. airline CHICAGO, May 13, 2021 /CSRwire/ – United announced today that it has teamed up with more than a dozen new environmental, nonprofit partners to advance sustainability efforts across the airline’s hub cities as well as Hawaii, complementing the airline’s commitment to become 100% green and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 100% by 2050. Among the 16 new partners are Carbon180 and RMI, which have worked with United to support decarbonization and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) initiatives at a policy level; DeltaInstitute and Liberty Hill, which have participated in listening sessions and awareness events with United employees; and Galveston Bay Foundation and Kanu Hawaii, with which United employees volunteered in Houston and on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Kauai in local cleanups and sustainable agriculture activities throughout Earth Month.
RMI* Environmental Innovators – Organizations that foster research, development and programming focused on reducing carbon in the atmosphere and promoting renewable energy. Elemental Excelerator (San Francisco and Honolulu)* − LA Cleantech Incubator (Los Angeles) Prime Coalition (Boston)* Rutgers University (Newark)* Environmental Justice and Equity – Organizations that fight to ensure a more equitable future for our communities’ most vulnerable members. Air Alliance Houston (Houston)* − The Alliance Center (Denver)* − Delta Institute (Chicago)* Groundwork Elizabeth (Newark)* − Liberty Hill (Los Angeles)* San Francisco Baykeeper (San Francisco) United Employee Social Impact – Organizations that support United’s on-the-ground commitment to connecting people and uniting the world through employee volunteer opportunities.
Power 100: A – M Leslie Anderson Anderson is the president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority — the first and only African-American woman in the nation to lead an independent redevelopment financing agency, and thanks to her effectiveness she has been reappointed to this position by four consecutive governors. Since Anderson took over more than a decade ago, the authority has leveraged nearly $4 billion in new investments – including about $500 million in direct investments – in some of the state’s most economically distressed communities. That funding has been vital to redevelopment efforts around New Jersey, with the authority claiming credit for 15,000 new housing units and more than 10 million square feet of commercial and retail space. And the authority is now poised to play a significant role in the Opportunity Zone program. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJRA created the Small Business Lease-Emergency Assistance Grant Program to provide commercial rent-relief grants of up to $10,000 to the small businesses that have been hardest hit by the health and economic crisis. The program, funded by the CARES Act, was fully subscribed in under 30 minutes. Not only were 90% of the applicants minority business owners, but nearly 70% had not received any other form of relief, including CARES Act funding