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Summer 2016

Best 50 Issue

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Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Summer 2016

INFOGRAPHIC: China’s rocky road to a clean energy future

by CK Staff

  Sources:ย China National Coal Association, National Energy Administration, CoalSwarm, National Bureau of Statistics, Frankfurt School and United Nations Environment Program, Greenpeace.

Summer 2016/Transportation

Biking down under

by CK Staff

Cyclists in Sydney and other cities in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) are now required to carry identification and

Food/Summer 2016

GMO headwinds

by CK Staff

The acreage of genetically modified crops diminished in 2015, halting a steady 20-year period of rapid growth for biotech crops around the

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Summer 2016/Voices

Blowing hot air

by CK Staff

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a storied history of denouncing people and things he disagrees with as โ€œdisgusting,โ€ including Rosie

Energy/Leadership/Summer 2016/Supply Chain

Resource rulers

by Bill Gallagher

Canadaโ€™s new government has lowered the boom on resource extraction approvals that donโ€™t meet federal expectations for controlling greenhouse gas emissions. So

Guest Comment/Leadership/Summer 2016

Dreams and thunder

by Dory Nason

To tell the history of Indigenous feminism, we have to acknowledge that such a history canโ€™t be easily distilled down to a

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2016/Voices

Mind the gap

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Kermit the Frog famously said itโ€™s not easy being green. Today, it might be easier being green than being a CEO in

Climate Crisis/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Natural Capital/Q&A/Summer 2016/Supply Chain

The French connection

by CK Staff

In a country that maintains a stark divide between the public and private sectors, Marie-Claire Daveu stands out as an anomaly. After

2016 Best 50/Summer 2016

Looking to leadership from corporate Canada

by CK Staff

At the height of the infamous Rob Ford video scandal, a commentator for Canadian Business magazine lamented that Torontoโ€™s business community had

2016 Best 50/Summer 2016

Top company profile: Vancity

by Bernard Simon

Tamara Vrooman has a drop-dead response to a question about gender diversity at Vancity, Canadaโ€™s biggest credit union. Noting that women make

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2016 Best 50/Summer 2016

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by CK Staff

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2016 Top Foreign Corporate Citizens
2016 Best 50/Summer 2016

2016 Top Foreign Corporate Citizens

by CK Staff

* On January 14, 2016, Alcatel-Lucent started operating as a part of the Nokia Group. ** On November 1, 2015, Hewlett-Packard Company

Built Environment/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Social Enterprise/Summer 2016

Concrete jungle

by Naomi Buck

There is very little to love about Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway. The six-lane highway that runs 18 kilometres along the shore of Lake

Clean Tech/Energy/Leadership/Mining/Summer 2016

Mining industry starts to dig renewables

by Tyler Hamilton

Until about eight months ago, rolling blackouts were a common occurrence in South Africa, where the national power grid is notorious for

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Mining/Summer 2016/Waste

The future of mining

by Brenda Bouw

When mining financier Robert Friedland took the stage at the World Copper Conference in Chile earlier this year, he outlined the future

Leaves
Climate Crisis/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2016/Voices

Pension tension

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Dear Mr. King: As representatives of Labour in the House of Commons, may we ask whether it is your intention to introduce

Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2016

Black swans and black gold

by James Rowe

After BPโ€™s massive oil spill in 2010, NASA released an aerial image of the oilโ€™s creep through the Gulf of Mexico. The

Climate Crisis/Natural Capital/Summer 2016

Indian forests

by CK Staff

New legislation approved in May by lawmakers in India’s lower house, the House of the People, would allocate $6.2 billion (U.S.) to

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Summer 2016/Waste

Remote control

by Anne McIlroy

Colville Lake, a First Nation community about 50 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, was quiet for a few hours in late

Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2016

Quantity versus quality

by Julie Desjardins and Rosemary McGuire

The market for environmental, social and governance (ESG) information is growing. Investors and other stakeholders are increasingly looking at the business world

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2016

Influencing climate policy

by CK Staff

The British non-profit Influence Map has released new research quantifying how much money is spent each year by leading oil majors and

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Summer 2016

Carbon budgeting

by CK Staff

The Paris Agreement on mitigating climate change seeks to limit emissions with the goal of holding the increase in the global average

Climate Crisis/Food/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Summer 2016

Emitting what you eat

by CK Staff

With the global population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, the environmental footprint brought on by food production and consumption is

Food/Health & Lifestyle/Summer 2016/Supply Chain/Waste

Bottled up

by CK Staff

Fresh off his successful push to ban plastic bags by 2018, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre has expressed interest in a potential ban

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