Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

From the ranking leader Hydro-Qubecs $155-billion green-energy expansion plan, to 12th-place Bpifrance banks financing solar and wind power loans, the inaugural list shows how investments in renewable energy pay off. Bpifrance Bpifrance is a French public-sector bank that bills itself as a one stop shop for entrepreneurs.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In July, National Geographic magazine reported: “Today, the greatest amount of de-forestation is occurring in tropical rainforests, aided by extensive road construction into regions that were once almost inaccessible. The World Bank calculates that the percentage of the world’s surface covered by forestry fell from 31.6%

Supply Chains

Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. In Ethiopia, a report from the World Bank–affiliated Independent Evaluation Group found that Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative, its offshoot of the Wall, had regenerated 45 watersheds.

Climate Change