issues

Climate | Spring 2024

Is it time to axe the carbon tax?

OPINION | The current ‘take no prisoners’ political battle over Canada’s carbon tax threatens what climate progress has been made. There is a compromise that could lower the temperature.

Finance | Spring 2024

The nuclear option

Eugene Ellmen

Should climate-conscious investors consider ‘green’ nuclear energy bonds or rule them out because of long delays, cost overruns, and safety and waste risks?

Food | Spring 2024

Amsterdam is the latest city to throw its weight behind Plant Based Treaty

Natalie Alcoba

The Dutch capital is part of a growing wave of cities that are signalling an understanding that food can’t be ignored when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis

Finance | Spring 2024

Canada’s Big Five banks keep moving further away from net-zero

Eugene Ellmen

A new report from UK org InfluenceMap shows that rather than move towards net-zero like their US and EU counterparts, Canada's big five banks have increased their exposure to oil and gas

Buildings | Spring 2024

This is New York's first all-electric skyscraper

Rick Spence

The super-efficient fossil-fuel-free tower has improved insulation, triple-glazed windows and offers parking spots for 200 bikes – and no cars

Climate | Winter 2024

Climate dollars: A roadmap to a post-fossil fuel future

Ralph Torrie

Corporate Knights is launching a major new project to identify the gap between what we are doing and what must be done to put the economy on a sustainable footing

Food | Winter 2024

What starting a spice company in Tanzania taught me about sustainability and equity

Shilpa Tiwari

Shilpa Tiwari realized that advising corporations on ESG wasn’t enough to transform our wounded world – she had to create change from the ground up

Energy | Winter 2024

Hero: The energy-storage pioneers creating mind-bending solutions

Rick Spence

From falling weights to compressed air, start ups around the world are taking on the challenge of building the energy-storage capacity we need to power the future

Climate | Winter 2024

Zero: Alberta's fearmongering media blitz to try to delay federal climate action

Rick Spence

Premier Danielle Smith doubled down on opposition to grid decarbonization plans by the federal government with a campaign that warned: "No one wants to freeze in the dark"

Sustainable Economy Intelligence

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

The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

issues

Is it time to axe the carbon tax?

The nuclear option

Amsterdam is the latest city to throw its weight behind Plant Based Treaty

Canada’s Big Five banks keep moving further away from net-zero

This is New York's first all-electric skyscraper

Climate dollars: A roadmap to a post-fossil fuel future

What starting a spice company in Tanzania taught me about sustainability and equity

Hero: The energy-storage pioneers creating mind-bending solutions

Zero: Alberta's fearmongering media blitz to try to delay federal climate action

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