Its name is confined to one neat square on our April calendars, but Earth Day’s impact continues to grow 53 years after its inception. The increasing urgency of climate change has spun a once-grassroots conservation effort into a global sustainability movement.

As Earth Day approaches on April 22, GE Reports spoke to two GE Aerospace leaders about sustainability efforts moving the company forward and how they are critical and entwined in the broader movement known as ESG: environmental, social, and governance.