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insurance financing fossil fuels
Climate/Summer 2024

Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs on to homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

by Rick Spence

Insure Our Future wants insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects – including LNG export terminals – and make polluters

Fall 2023/Transportation

Hero: Volvo ditches diesel and revs up electric car sales

by Rick Spence

Sweden’s Volvo earned more revenue from sustainable products than any other car company last year. Now its EV sales are surging as

Energy/Fall 2023

Zero: Oil industry’s plan for climate action? More fossil fuels

by Rick Spence

2023 has been the year of oil industry backpedalling on renewables and doubling down on fossil fuels. Will COP28 change that?

Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise
Leadership/Summer 2023

Zero: Canada's watchdog for corporate abuses fails to act

by Bernard Simon

The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise was supposed to crack down on corporate Canada's human rights abuses abroad. It hasn't turned out

heros and zeros, deforestation, forestry
Leadership/Summer 2023

Hero: How journalists exposed cracks in global forestry certifications

by Bernard Simon

Best known for the Panama Papers, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists takes aim at programs purporting to combat deforestation and illegal

Cop28 fossil fuels
Climate/Spring 2023

Zero: Why is COP28 letting a fox guard the henhouse?

by Bernard Simon

Having a fossil fuel champion in charge of the world’s most important climate negotiations is like having a cigarette CEO in charge

Fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Climate/Spring 2023

Hero: In coal-heavy Poland, Warsaw takes a stand against fossil fuels

by Bernard Simon

Polish capital is the first city in Central Europe to sign onto Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

plant-based Corporate Knights
Food/Winter 2023

Hero: Vitasoy wants to take the cow out of the milk business

by Bernard Simon

How Vitasoy went from selling soy milk door-to-door in 1940s Hong Kong to one of the world’s largest suppliers of plant-based products

JBS Corporate Knights Heroes & Zeros
Food/Winter 2023

Zero: JBS's net-zero promises mired by deforestation links

by Bernard Simon

The world's biggest meatpacking company committed to be net-zero by 2040, but it still faces frequent accusations that it sources meat from

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