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Kamala Harris's straight-talking pick for VP adopted strict emissions standards on cars as governor of Minnesota and legislation to ensure electricity generation is carbon-free by 2040

Leadership

How cities are nudging tourists to go green

Lorraine Whitmarsh and Nicole Koenig-Lewis

From rewarding environmental choices with museum or restaurant passes, to taxes that protect local life, cities are trying new ways to shape sustainable tourism

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Olympics showcase how a trailblazing mayor turned Paris into a green capital

Rick Spence

Anne Hidalgo has overseen the creation of more than 550 kilometres of bicycle lanes, the elimination of 50,000 parking spaces, and announced plans to phase out diesel vehicles

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Here's what a Kamala Harris presidency could mean for climate

Zoya Teirstein

Indicators date back to her tenure as district attorney and attorney general in California, when she created an environmental justice unit and went after Volkswagen for emissions-cheating software

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

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‘Keep going’: How an Indigenous woman fought a coal mine and won

Anita Hofschneider

Murrawah Maroochy Johnson, a Wirdi woman of the Birri Gubba Nation, led a groundbreaking First Nations legal battle in Australia. She received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.

Leadership | Summer 2024

Indigenous knowledge keepers take their clean energy expertise abroad

Natalie Alcoba

Indigenous Peoples in Canada have become renewable-energy powerhouses. Now they’re using their knowledge to help Indigenous communities across the world.

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Mexico's new president is a climate scientist – what will that mean for its energy policy?

Mitchell Beer

Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed to boost renewables in Mexico - the only G20 nation without a net-zero target - while still adding to gas burning power plants

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Here is why more women should be leading climate action

Carla Pascoe Leahy

Women make up 80% of people displaced by extreme weather. Evidence shows that more women decision-makers leads to stronger climate policies, and more ambitious climate targets.

2025 Global 100 list: World’s most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Why are financial advisers shunning green funds?

The world’s most sustainable MBA programs are producing a generation of changemakers