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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

This updraft effect, combined with high interest rates that depressed stock prices of firms spending big on transforming their assets (such as those leading the clean energy transition), led to the Global 100 underperforming over the past two years. both earned spots in the Global 100 ranking, as did telecommunications giants BCE Inc.,

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Here we go again: Ontario’s reckless nuclear gamble

Corporate Knights

It was 2005. It seems unlikely these will be the Canadian-developed CANDU technology. The plan was withdrawn before environmental assessment hearings were even convened and the proposed power plants were never built. Peak demand in 2014 was lower than it was in 1989. The government also plans to add four giant 1.2

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DP World Appoints Joel Werner as Chief Operating Officer in Canada

3BL Media

He joined DP World in 2005 and has been serving as General Manager of DP World’s Vancouver Terminal (Centerm) since 2022. Joel Werner, Chief Operating Officer, DP World in Canada, said: “I am honoured to step into the role of COO for DP World in Canada, especially at a time of significant expansion and strategic development in the region.

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Aegon AM Appoints Anne Scott as Global Climate Solutions Lead

ESG Today

Most recently this has seen us shift our short dated investment grade bond strategy to become the Global Short Dated Climate Transition Fund, focusing on the transition to a net-zero global economy.”

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Fifth Third Named a 2024 Leading Disability Employer by the National Organization on Disability

3BL Media

Fifth Third’s inclusive employment practices include a robust network of nine Business Resource Groups that empower employees to advance inclusion efforts and to access development opportunities, support business solutions and become involved in the community.

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Applied Materials Receives SBTi Validation of its Science-based Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions Reductions Targets

3BL Media

Semiconductors are the foundation of technology advancements that are transforming the global economy and can improve peoples’ lives in so many ways. Applied Materials has been reporting on social responsibility and environmental matters since 2005. By setting a 1.5°C-aligned

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COP29 takeaways: a turning point for climate finance, but falls short on fossil fuels

We Mean Business Coalition

Amid frantic diplomacy and frustration countries debated the scope of the climate finance package for developing countries, and, separately, text including language addressing the transition away from coal, oil, and gas – among many other crucial issues. trillion per year by 2035. Achieving the $1.3