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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

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Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. 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.

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

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In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments. Smaller and nimbler, cities are becoming showpieces of successful climate action, and the protagonists of this spectacle of municipal leadership are increasingly women.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

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Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. Since 2002 (the year we published our first Best 50 list), Best 50 companies have rewarded their shareholders with 128% higher returns than the overall composite index.

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