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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

We are one piece of a big puzzle,” she says, estimating that two-thirds of the investment required to achieve net-zero by 2050 will come from the private sector. 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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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

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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