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

Corporate Knights

But in the coming year, many businesses will have no such luck as they navigate major changes to the global tax and regulatory environment that has been encouraging investment in more sustainable technologies and practices. With sustainable investment, its the same story, Heaps says. While the new U.S.

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These 50 Canadian corporations are carving out a more sustainable future

Corporate Knights

The Edmonton-based engineering consulting firm generated 60% of its revenues from sustainable projects such as remediating contaminated worksites in Nunavut, designing a climate-first watershed management plan for Manchester, U.K., Banks, asset management and insurance peer groups are not assessed on the sustainable investment KPI.

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Europe is setting the standard for sustainable business – and earning the rewards

Corporate Knights

The French company is the only one to have topped the Global 100 twice (the other time back in 2021 ), and it has played a unique role in electrification efforts across a wide variety of sectors, from manufacturing light switches to pioneering new software and clean energy solutions for data centres and smart cities.

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

But with sustainability, there are reasons to be more forthcoming. Private companies are increasingly eager to report on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and their sustainability investments amid the publics growing appetite for companies that are trying to be good corporate citizens.

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The 25 most sustainable public-sector companies in the world

Corporate Knights

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.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

This week in ESG news: EU Council approves delay of sustainability reporting regulations; ING becomes first major bank with approved science-based financed emissions targets; PwC study finds vast majority of companies are keeping – or raising – climate goals; SEC walks away from climate reporting requirements; Airbus commits to build hydrogen-powered (..)

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Take Five: Future-proofing to the Fore

Chris Hall

Under the aegis of the Sustainable Markets Initiative , pharmaceuticals giants AstraZeneca and GSK led a deal that will see the collective procurement of 225 gigawatt hours of renewable energy annually, for medical R&D and manufacturing facilities in China.