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Clean 200 list shows sustainable companies on path to dominate global economy

Corporate Knights

They also beat the global benchmark MSCI ACWI by 30% from July 1, 2016, to January 29, 2025. Clean200 data show that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as all other revenues over the past five years.

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

While publicly traded companies often dominate the headlines, private companies are a much larger part of the global economy. The ranking includes key performance indicators (KPIs) in areas such as energy, water, and waste, and governance factors like gender diversity. Biffa PLC Conscientious waste management U.K.-based

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

In 10 short years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) arguably has done more than any other group to define and advance the circular economy. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.

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The 25 most sustainable public-sector companies in the world

Corporate Knights

In its deep dive into the worlds most sustainable private- and public-sector companies, Corporate Knights revealed an undeniable fact: public-sector companies are doing essential work when it comes to moving the needle toward a greener global economy. reduction in emissions and the diversion of 67% of waste from landfills.

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Will China’s crackdown on ‘foreign garbage’ force wealthy countries to recycle more of their own waste?

Green Technology

recycling facilities and send more waste to landfills. Global recycling markets are easily prone to disruption, and developed countries have underinvested in recycling infrastructure for years. Waste Dive, the must-read daily bulletin of waste-related news, named the initiative “Disruptor of the Year.” Geyer et al.,

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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World’s first high-level science initiative dedicated to the survival of the Amazon launches today

Sustainable Development Network

Our message to political leaders is that there is no time to waste,” said Carlos Nobre, Co-Chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon. The current development model is fueling deforestation and biodiversity loss, leading to devastating and irreversible change. "The We scientists will do our best, but it won’t be enough," Nobre said.