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Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
The litany of inequality is stark: Canada’s 87 richest families ?own own 4,448 times more wealth than the typical family, and while Canada’s top 1% own a quarter of the country’s wealth, the least-wealthy 40% own just 1.2%. .
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
COP27 exposed some realities about the oil and gas sector’s climate ambitions.
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Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Governments are being called on to put some regulatory muscle behind corporate net-zero pledges to ensure they don’t amount to mere greenwashing. .
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Guy Dauncey is the author of Journey to the Future: A Better World Is Possible. . Canada’s housing crisis is causing distress for millions of people who are struggling to find affordable places to rent. It’s causing trouble for business owners, too. In Qualicum Beach, B.C.,
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Guy Dauncey is the author of Journey to the Future: A Better World Is Possible. All around the world, people on the cruel side of the affordable housing crisis need our help.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Just a few years ago, much of the business community viewed climate advocates with indifference or skepticism. Today, companies representing 40% of the stock market have committed to science-based targets around reducing their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. .
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
There are more than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists at the Cop27 climate conference, a rise of more than 25% from last year and outnumbering any one frontline community affected by the climate crisis.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Predictions for the total cost of the clean energy transition range from an incremental US$1 trillion per year to a total of US$10 trillion per year – but everyone agrees it won’t be cheap.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Adam Scott is d irector and Patrick DeRochie is s enior m anager for Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, a charitable initiative that tracks the climate strategies of Canadian pension funds and works to protect pensions and the climate by bringing together beneficiaries and their pension managers to engage on the climate crisis. .
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Back in the 1960s, Canadians loved Esso’s ad campaign “Put a tiger in your tank” so much they attached colourful “tiger tails” to their gas tank covers. The plush orange-and-black pennant flapped proudly behind Granddad’s Pontiac as it belched exhaust fumes and promoted his favourite hydrocarbon.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Muhammad Asif is an associate professor of management sciences at Plymouth State University. Cory Searcy is a professor and the vice-provost & dean of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. ESG has become a contentious corporate and political battleground.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 11, 2022
This year, Corporate Knights set out to identify global companies that have decarbonized faster than their peers while simultaneously increasing revenue. Our researchers evaluated the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of more than 6,500 publicly traded companies.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Gideon Forman is a climate change policy analyst at the David Suzuki Foundation. Earlier this year, the David Suzuki Foundation circulated an open letter calling for the protection of southern Ontario’s greenbelt, citing the proposed Highway 413 north of Toronto as a major threat.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
At business schools worldwide, topics on sustainability, climate risk and income inequality are popping up in MBA programs, with new content, certificates and research.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
A business course that once focused on maximizing shareholder profit now teaches how to measure purposeful value creation. A risk-management class, once strictly concerned with fiscal threats to corporate profits, now assesses climate impacts on bottom-line decisions.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 5, 2022
On a rainy morning at Climate Week NYC in September, dark clouds crack with thunder over Manhattan’s traffic-jammed streets. At the Colgate-Palmolive headquarters on Park Avenue, demonstrators have gathered outside as the CEO of the candy bar giant, Mars Inc.,
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 24, 2022
Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the B. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. . In April 2021, the United Kingdom’s Drax Group purchased Pinnacle Renewable Energy, becoming the largest wood pellet-maker in British Columbia and Canada. .
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 18, 2022
Rearing livestock and growing crops to feed them has destroyed more tropical forest and killed more wildlife than any other industry. Animal agriculture also produces vast quantities of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
For more than a decade, responsible investing in Canada experienced steady upward growth. A new report says that trend has reversed itself in the last two years, as the industry struggles to respond to allegations of greenwashing and a tougher regulatory environment. .
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
The 27th UN climate summit, COP27, which got underway in Egypt on Sunday, seems to have been pre-ordained as a modest contribution to the increasingly fraught fight against climate change. .
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
On February 19, 1970, a nervous, 21-year-old Cambridge University student, wearing a mud-brown suit typical of the times, warned the Welsh Countryside Commission?in in Cardiff about “the horrifying effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms.” .
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The climate crisis can feel overwhelmingly complex and frustratingly simple at the same time. If you’re in need of some inspiration or some pragmatic information about how to take action, here are a few new books about the climate crisis that may light a fire under you.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 20, 2022
My wife and I live in a 110-year-old semi-detached house in midtown Toronto. Like many homes across the country, the walls are brick and thus uninsulated.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Over the last decade or so, big food companies have pledged to improve their animal welfare standards. A new report card by animal rights organization Mercy for Animals shows that some companies operating in Canada are making progress on their public commitments, but others are falling behind.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Pakistan, a country whose contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is tiny by Canadian standards, knows the fury and the injustice of climate chaos.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Mark Carney’s US$130-trillion Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) has lost two pension funds and a consulting company in recent weeks, and some large U.S. and Canadian banks are threatening to withdraw because of new membership criteria requiring a fossil fuel phase-down.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. .
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a tussle over the place of fossil fuels in the global economy. An agreement by the world’s governments to phase out all fossil fuels would have been a welcome progression from last year’s Glasgow climate pact.
Corporate Knights
JULY 12, 2022
Food prices are surging across much of North America, as pandemic-related supply chain issues persist; floods, droughts and storms hit farmland; and the war in Ukraine snarls global food systems. In May 2022, Canadians paid 9.7%
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Just a year ago, Mark Carney inspired optimism among climate finance campaigners by founding a new alliance of banks and other financial institutions that pledged to decarbonize their portfolios.
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 30, 2022
With files from Rick Spence and Susanne Ruder. The glass ceiling at Canada’s greenest companies is getting pretty thin, and the women at the top have their sights set on climate change. “I
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Fraser Thomson is a lawyer with Ecojustice. Alex Neufeldt is an entrepreneur in Ottawa, and Shelby Gagnon is an artist and food security worker originally from the Aroland First Nation northeast of Geraldton, Ontario. They’re two of the seven youth plaintiffs in Mathur et.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
If there is one word that captures India’s dramatic push to turbocharge its renewable energy sector, it is this: ambition.
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Nate Wallace is clean transportation program manager at Environmental Defence. Around North America (and soon the United Kingdom), a growing number of provincial and state governments have started requiring carmakers to meet annually increasing zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) sales targets.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Governments around the world are promoting clean-burning hydrogen as a critical component of our net-zero drive to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 23, 2022
During the past decade, thousands of Rotterdam building owners installed green roofs on their dwellings – about 330,000 square metres in total, almost 2% of the city’s 18.5 square-kilometre of flat roof space.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Cities are at the centre of Canada’s five-year, C$1.6-billion climate adaptation and resilience strategy, with Ottawa looking to local governments to deliver supports to Canadians increasingly facing the threat of wildfires, heat waves, and catastrophic storms and flooding.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
A green hydrogen/ammonia facility planned in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia is being touted as a blessing for the province’s climate goals, even though it will initially be powered by a coal-fired grid—with all the ammonia slated for export overseas.
Corporate Knights
JUNE 16, 2022
In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The astounding aspect of green energy technology is the fact that it all exists today, most of it has been around for decades. No new inventions are required to go green.
Corporate Knights
JUNE 3, 2022
Last fall, an ambitious survey covering 10 countries found that 84% of young people aged 16 to 25 are at least “moderately worried” about climate change – and 59% are extremely worried.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
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