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Leadership/Winter 2022

Heroes and Zeros: Asian Development Bank vs. Croatia Airlines

by Bernard Simon

The Asian Development Bank speeds up coal plant closures, while Croatia Airlines dirties the skies.

Coal waste could help transition from fossil fuels
Mining/Winter 2022

Could rare earth minerals give coal country a second life?

by Roberta Staley

Pilot projects across North America are looking to shuttered coal mines as a source of minerals crucial to a net-zero carbon-emissions future

Climate Crisis/Summer 2021

Is Bitcoin the next stranded asset?

by Rick Spence

“Running bitcoin,” tweeted cryptocurrency pioneer Hal Finney in January 2009. A few days later, he received the first 10 Bitcoins ever traded.

Energy

Wind and solar now power a 10th of the world, while coal smoulders

by Rick Spence

But Canadians can't brag, wind and solar generate only 5.3% of our total electricity – about half the global share

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Energy

Disruption, denial and transition: Lessons from our energy history

by Anna Dowbiggin

The Investor Visit offers an inventive and engaging approach to sharing business lessons for a world transitioning to new energy forms

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Leadership/Planning for a Green Recovery

IEA summit urges global energy ministers to adopt ambitious green recovery plans

by Shawn McCarthy

The steep drop in greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic could make 2019 the peak year for GHGs, but only

2020 Global 100/Leadership

Top company profile: Denmark's Ørsted is 2020's most sustainable corporation

by Mike Scott

A decade ago, offshore wind power was one of the costliest forms of electricity generation in the world, and even its leading

The new tool of green investing is short selling
Climate Crisis

The latest green investment tool? Short-selling the fossil fuel economy

by Rick Spence

Capitalism gets a rough ride from many climate crusaders, who say it encourages reckless growth and undervalues the benefits of a clean,

China's new coal power plants threaten climate goals
Climate Crisis/Energy

China's coal use is surging at home and abroad – but a low-carbon path is still possible

by CK Staff

Responsibility for meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement has always focused, rightly, on the world’s major greenhouse-gas emitters, mainly the

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