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These 50 Canadian corporations are carving out a more sustainable future

Corporate Knights

The Best 50 ranking was first developed back in 2002 to track the sustainability journeys of Canada’s most environmentally and socially conscious companies. If there’s one big takeaway from the results of Corporate Knights’ annual survey of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens, it’s that there’s no such thing as “business as usual” anymore.

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

The Canadian company says it produces more than 1,600 gigawatt hours of green energy from renewable sources, recycles thousands of tonnes of paper and paperboard, manufactures 100% recycled packaging and tissue products, and works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at its plants across North America.

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Trade in Transition: South America Looks to Neutrality, Opportunity

3BL Media

Neutrality is also seen as a driver for attracting FDI, with 32% of executives pointing to this balanced approach as a way to expand manufacturing capabilities. For instance, Brazils dominance in soybean exports to China, following Chinese tariffs on U.S. soybeans, underscores the regions ability to turn trade disruptions into advantages.

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Productivity at the core: How COOs deliver strategy

McKinsey Sustainabilty

percent annually between 1997 and 2002 to 1.6 percent between 2002 and 2007. Similarly, big data analytics is enabling manufacturers to optimize production processes with unparalleled precision. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, global productivity growth has largely declined around the world.

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Reimagining Business Ownership in the Global South

Stanford Social Innovation

Set up in 2002 by the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (FNC) to promote Colombian coffee, Procafecol has expanded the scope of Colombias coffee industry from commoditized beans to value-added products sold in domestic and international markets. Strong business acumen and professional management teams are drivers of success.

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Why national ownership is key to finance and climate-resilient development

Eco-Business

Country ownership has been a key principle of the Financing for Development agenda since the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and central to development effectiveness in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and follow up forum in Busan in 2011. Education 5. Gender equality 6. This is not a new idea.

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Worrying indications in recently updated world energy data

Gail Tverberg

It remained relatively flat between 1979 and 2002 and then rose quite rapidly until 2008. b) There was a sharp expansion in China’s energy consumption, starting about 2002. As the leading manufacturer of the world, China has been consuming huge amounts of minerals such as copper. On Figure 8, we noted 2.0%