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Corporate Knights
JUNE 27, 2025
When the women-only fitness club Curves opened a franchise in Kincardine, Ontario, in 2001, a number of locals flocked to join. billion Cooperative Housing Development Program, which is providing loans and contributions to new and existing housing co-ops (see “Housing” story, page 33). The Canadian government recently announced a $1.5-billion
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Data provider appoints former Trucost CEO Richard Mattison to accelerate initiatives and develop fresh strategies for sustainable investing. Mattison has more than 20 years of sustainable finance experience and previously served as President of S&P Global’s Sustainable1 unit.
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Chris Hall
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Investors seeking to address the ESG risks in their mining investments have been urged to respond to a consultation on a consolidated sustainability standard developed by leading industry bodies. Panellists at ESG Investor s Nature Data event identified need for guidance and action on artisanal mining, lobbying and Indigenous Peoples rights.
Just Capital
JUNE 2, 2022
When Jack Welch retired as chairman and CEO of General Electric in 2001, he ended a 20-year tenure that took GE from a valuation of $14 billion to $600 billion, making it the most valuable company in the world. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images).
James Militzer
APRIL 8, 2024
In 2001, the internet stock market crisis broke, and later that decade the subprime mortgage crisis sparked the 2008 global financial crisis — the largest since the Great Depression. In 1994, the Mexican Tesobonos crisis happened, then financial crises spread across Asia in 1997 and again a year later.
Sustainable Development Network
APRIL 20, 2020
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Guillaume Lafortune Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Guillaume Lafortune coordinates the SDSN annual Sustainable Development Report which tracks the performance of all UN member states on the Sustainable Development Goals. Contact: guillaume.lafortune@unsdsn.org.
Sustainable Round Table
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Meadows died too young in 2001, but her work has grown increasingly more important, as it was focused on systems change to avert environmental collapse. This new paradigm of leadership has even reached the highest levels of policy development in the United States.
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