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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

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In the 1990s, progressive economists were pushing for what they called full-cost accounting: a triple bottom line that took profits, people and the planet into consideration. Slater helped to formulate the second version of the GRI’s sustainability reporting guidelines, published in 2002. Todd wasn’t alone.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

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Since 2002, Corporate Knights’ ranking of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens has been tracing public and private companies as well as Crown corporations with more than $1 billion in revenues. It’s evidence that the “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) doesn’t compromise the single bottom line – but expands it.

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

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In a highly symbolic move, she had the highway that ran along the left bank of the Seine converted into 4.5 In 2002, Annika Billström, the first female mayor of Stockholm, committed what was expected to be political suicide by proposing a congestion charge on all vehicles entering the inner city. hectares of pedestrian-only greenspace.