Corporate Knights

Providing information empowering markets to foster a better world. Corporate Knights produces editorial at the intersection of business and society, with news and analysis about sustainability and corporate sustainability rankings

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Corporate Knights

Letters

Need for speed • The slow and steady approach usually favoured by corporations is not going to get us through an acrid smoke-filled future. Luckily, the race for renewables is quickening the pace.

Corporate Knights • California greenin’

Renewables project pipeline

‘Extraordinary growth’ in clean energy is keeping pathway to 1.5°C open: IEA

How students finally convinced NYU to divest from fossil fuels

Top 10 banks financing the green transition

Green financing surges to more than US$2.6 trillion at top banks: report

Landmark youth climate ruling in Montana echoes across Canada

Lego hit a recycled-plastic stumbling block. Do its claims stack up?

Canadian pension funds ignore rapid rise in climate dangers

Can NYC ban return Airbnb to its sharing-economy roots?

Lessons from the lithium triangle • Can three countries in the most lithium-rich place on Earth use the green revolution to break free from the extractive patterns of the past that leave little behind?

Fed up • Are we tired enough of grocery giants to revolutionize the way we buy our food?

Should we leapfrog over crickets? • What the climate buzz around insect farming gets wrong

Succession in the climate era • How the next generation of wealthy families are looking to make a dent in the most daunting threat the world faces

FIRED UP! • Gen Zs and millennials are feeling the heat as the impacts of the climate crisis hit closer to home than ever. These 30 youth leaders are pushing back, driving an impact revolution.

Green to the core? • How top business schools are drilling sustainability into their core curricula

Are MBA programs teaching social purpose?

UP IN SMOKE • In the wake of Canada’s worst wildfire season on record, reforestation isn’t as simple as planting more trees

It’s getting hot in here • Reflections of a climate hawk accepting the inevitable

Revolution 4.0 • As we stand on the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution, the interplay between AI and ESG will reshape the nature of opportunities available to sustainability professionals

Ontario’s reckless nuclear gamble • We cannot afford another round of ill-conceived commitments to multibillion-dollar megaprojects that will be overtaken by smarter, less expensive renewables

HEROES & ZEROS

Knight Bites • The International Energy Agency (IEA) issued an update to its landmark roadmap to net-zero in September, laying out a scenario that could help us limit warming to 1.5°C. Now global leaders just need to forge the policies that will get us there at December’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai.