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The planet has been living through record-smashing heat, and few places are as treacherous as concrete-laden cities. Here's how cities from Paris to Abu Dhabi are coping.

Climate | Summer 2024

Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs on to homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

Rick Spence

Insure Our Future wants insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects – including LNG export terminals – and make polluters pay for climate disasters rather than hiking rates for homeowners

Climate | Summer 2024

Heroes: How these Swiss seniors won first-ever climate case in international court

Rick Spence

Heat-related deaths have spiked by roughly 30% in Europe over the last two decades. A group of older Swiss women successfully argued their government wasn't doing enough to protect them.

Food | Summer 2024

How Sundance Commons is training the next generation of young, racialized farmers

Neha Chollangi

With more than 40% of Canadian farmers retiring in the next decade, an urban farm in Toronto is giving marginalized youth the tools to start their own farm businesses

Leadership | Summer 2024

Tom Mulcair gets to the heart of green governance

Naomi Buck

The former leader of the NDP, who won the 2024 Corporate Knights Award of Distinction, changed how government thinks about sustainable development

2024 Best 50 | Summer 2024

These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green

Rick Spence

Best 50 companies are pouring seven times more into sustainable investments than the average Canadian corporation

2024 Best 50 | Summer 2024

Who are Canada's top international corporate citizens of 2024?

CK Staff

Corporate Knights ranks the most sustainable corporations with a subsidiary in Canada

2024 Best 50 | Summer 2024

Montreal's transit corporation drives into top spot of Canada's best corporate citizens for 2024

John Lorinc

How Société de transport de Montréal is turning its sustainable mobility vision into reality at high speed

Climate | Summer 2024

Can a wave of chief heat officers help cool a melting planet?

John Lorinc

In the ‘era of global boiling,’ cities and states are turning to heat czars to craft climate responses that mitigate the impact of extreme heat

Sustainable Economy Intelligence

These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green

The federal government is more than $14 billion behind on climate funding

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Knight Bites: Six ways cities are trying to keep their cool in record-breaking heat waves

Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs on to homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

Heroes: How these Swiss seniors won first-ever climate case in international court

How Sundance Commons is training the next generation of young, racialized farmers

Tom Mulcair gets to the heart of green governance

These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green

Who are Canada's top international corporate citizens of 2024?

Montreal's transit corporation drives into top spot of Canada's best corporate citizens for 2024

Can a wave of chief heat officers help cool a melting planet?

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