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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

“Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. C, SBTi 6 15 Banco do Brasil SA Brasília, Brazil Banks $ 1,106,800 17% 9:1 50% 29% 0% A- 1.5°C,

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Will small modular reactors seed a nuclear renaissance?

Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights does not consider new nuclear power projects to be “green” in its Sustainable Economy Taxonomy. In its fall fiscal update, the federal government introduced an investment tax credit of up to 30% for clean energy technologies, including SMRs. A bad day to go nuclear.

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The potential of green bonds in emerging markets

Renewable Energy World

Since 2011, annual global energy transition investment (renewable energy, CCS, electrified transport, hydrogen, electrified heat, energy storage) has almost doubled, from $290b to $501b. Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic.