As an environmental lawyer and the former environmental commissioner of Ontario, I have spent 45 years at Canada’s battlefront between the economy, the environment, and
Today, over 250 news outlets from around the planet, with a combined reach of over 1 billion people, are banding together to ramp up media
A roundup of helpful advice for the 200 CEOs that recently swore off their shareholder-first mantra
Alison Thompson is a renewable energy warrior. After starting her career working for coal utilities and oil sands companies, the Calgary-based mother of one and
Although the United States already adopted sweeping tax reforms under the Trump administration, Congress is in the midst of planning further tax cuts. People are
Rola Dagher is as unique as her name in Canada’s corporate leadership strata. In a world where not one of the companies on the Toronto
When a Labour-Green coalition replaced the Conservative party at Oslo’s city hall in 2015, change was on the table. But one of the council’s promises
The 2019 federal budget proposed a number of changes to the Canada Business Corporations Act. One in particular, which is expected to receive Royal Assent
The first time I met Peter Diplaros, he was not happy to see me. He was supposed to be on leave, but had returned to
Tom McMillan wants you to know that he is not the hero of this story. It’s a standard claim, the kind we expect from hallowed
NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED Pour la version française, cliquez ici. The climate crisis, plastic pollution, human rights abuses, injustice, poverty – the endless list
Caring for the environment came instinctively to Google’s sustainability officer Kate Brandt. She grew up in San Francisco’s Bay Area, in a small beach town
Climate scientists have sounded the alarm. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report this past fall, saying we have
John Paul Morgan is showing me around his solar panel factory in Toronto’s Stockyards District, once famous for its slaughterhouses. Meat-packers still operate here, but
The Indigenous economy is a force to be reckoned with – and investors are beginning to wake up to this fact. On February 21st in
Indigenomics? It’s a new word that settles across the tongue conjuring up possibility of the unknown. Indigenomics is the collective economic response to the lasting
If the polling is to be believed, Canada’s smallest province is about to do something big. It may just elect the country’s very first Green
This past January, John Bogle, the investing legend and “money manager for the people,” passed away after 89 fruitful years. Over the course of his
On one side, you have billion-dollar oil and power corporations hungry for growth. On the other, First Nations whose concerns have long been run roughshod
COPENHAGEN — Denmark seemed the perfect host for the crucial 2009 United Nations climate change summit. The tiny Scandinavian country had a reputation for green
Enjoying the spectacle of Jody Wilson-Raybould cleaning the floor with the Prime Minister? Guess what corporate Canada: you’re next. Anybody doubting this needn’t look
You can’t really miss Frances Edmonds in Canadian corporate sustainability settings. The head of sustainable impact at HP Canada is rather tall and dons a
The precise moment announcing Canada’s “reset” on its road to resources was this headline splashed across the front page of the Globe and Mail on
As the CEO of the Toronto-based Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, JP (Jean Paul) Gladu can often be spotted at conferences and functions in a
In the global debate over what to do about climate change, one party has typically been silent: the generation that will take charge of the
Who runs the world? According to Beyonce’s 2011 smash single, girls do. Whether the world’s largest corporations have gotten the memo is still up for
Since our first Clean200 report was launched in the summer of 2016, Corporate Knights and As You Sow have released a list of the world’s
Corporate Knights and As You Sow are pleased to present the 2019 Q1 Carbon Clean200 list of publicly-traded companies that are leading the way with
Corporate accountability mechanisms for Canadian companies operating in developing countries have been a long time coming. A National Roundtable for Corporate Social Responsibility and the
Big oil and big pharma aren’t everyone’s vision of sustainability superstars. So why are they on CK's Global 100 list?
