While the sea ice is melting in the Arctic at the fastest pace in 1,500 years and the California forests are burning at a rate
This past March, the Bank of Canada had its coming out party on the topic of climate change in the form of a speech at
Unless you are swinging and missing at home plate, good things often come in threes. So when I had three random interactions all pointing in
“Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among
Money can’t buy me love, or the song goes. But could it buy a better world? What would happen if the 500 million people with
May 8, 2050 Dear Zia, You were born in a year when the western status quo was smashed. The fantastical became the everyday. Britain walked
Considerable effort goes into sustainability reporting, but to what end? On the critical issue of climate change, we now have a potentially game-changing answer from
Kermit the Frog famously said it’s not easy being green. Today, it might be easier being green than being a CEO in the oil business.
Dear Mr. King: As representatives of Labour in the House of Commons, may we ask whether it is your intention to introduce at this session
True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on
Jeremy Rifkin has been a well-known economist, social theorist and author for decades, weighing in on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the
Cows, coal and cars. Together they account for roughly half of all human-caused greenhouse gases. To solve global warming, the world need only ban beef,
Global banking firm UBS is currently running an ad campaign that asks: “Do I invest in the world I am in? Or the one I
Corporate Knights released a report this week pegging CPPIB’s potential losses at over $7 billion(US), the result of its high exposure to the fossil fuel
Statistics Canada recently confirmed that natural resource wealth (namely minerals and timber) has been formally integrated into Canada’s national balance sheet, with the first release
One of my earliest memories is of being wildly bucked by a woolly sheep, hanging on with everything my scrawny arms could muster before being
Now is the time to close the corporate disclosure gap for the most salient sustainability factors, starting by requiring all major companies to report their
Gordon Campbell has packed a lot of public service into his professional life. Thirty-fifth Mayor of Vancouver for seven years. Thirty-fourth Premier of British Columbia
Shortly before Nelson Mandela passed away I had a chance to ask F.W. de Klerk what impact the anti-apartheid divestment campaign had on his decision
It seems like everybody is talking about carbon pricing these days, but few have approached the issue from the perspective of finance ministers, which is
In 2012, the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook report legitimized the notion of unburnable carbon in one sentence: “No more than one-third of proven
The Council for Clean Capitalism’s work with Ontario’s political leadership and borrowing unit was catalytic in launching a provincial green bond program in 2014. Ontario
After several hours of driving on a dark rural highway, the first distant glimpse of a roadside streetlight can be a sight for sore eyes.
Buildings are a main source of energy use and greenhouse gases. In Toronto, for example, 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions are associated with
The father of capitalism, Adam Smith, wrote: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in
More executives and corporate board members feel pressure to deliver short-term results than they did just a few years ago, and the situation is getting worse. Roughly three-quarters of
If a Martian were to look down on our great continent today, he (as Men are from Mars) would see a land rich in oil
At the beginning of the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, political advisor James Carville famously remarked: “I used to think if there was reincarnation,
Corporate Knights defines clean capitalism as an economic system in which prices incorporate social, economic and ecological benefits and costs, and participants know the full impacts
Henry Mintzberg is a man who believes that the key to prosperity, however one defines it, lies in creating the right balance. An internationally renowned
