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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

The ranking includes key performance indicators (KPIs) in areas such as energy, water, and waste, and governance factors like gender diversity. The companys second-hand effect conserves energy and raw materials, reduces greenhouse gases and minimizes waste. Reaching net-zero as we grow remains vital.

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These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green

Corporate Knights

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. The hard work of Canadians is paying off,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said. this year, up 9% over last year’s 49.7% – that’s compared to just 8.4%

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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. Companies have also discovered that happy, healthy employees, customers and communities create healthier markets – and happier shareholders.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

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

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Tetra Pak Sustainability Report FY22: Taking Action on Climate

3BL Media

Currently, more than 40% of the world’s largest publicly traded companies have made net-zero commitments as of the end of 2022, up from 20% in December 2020 5. However, only 50% of companies with net-zero targets were found to have a GHG emissions reduction plan that includes intermediate targets 6.

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Could industrial digital technology make Australia's biggest cities better places to be?

Sustainability Matters

Late January saw the country’s population hit 27 million, more than 30 years earlier than was predicted in the federal Treasury’s 2002 Intergenerational Report. Creating powerful, connected industrial eco-systems is the first step towards optimising operations, reducing waste and enabling innovation to occur on the fly.

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Insights 2023: Mario Macri

Sustainability Matters

ABB has developed a cost-efficient, cloud computing-based energy monitoring and management system to help cut waste and improve the energy efficiency of buildings and small industrial sites. Since 2002 the SF 6 concentration in the atmosphere has doubled! Australia is leading the charge on the sustainability front in mining.