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Could the UN's new carbon trading system give a needed boost to the green shift?
OPINION | Among the milestones at COP29, the global framework for carbon credit trading will help accelerate the energy transition and help developing countries fund their own energy transitions
2024 will be the hottest on record. Here’s how cities are becoming more climate resilient
As a wave of warm weather breaks November heat records across Canada and around the world, we look at some of the ways that urban designers are fending off extreme heat in cities
Closing the climate funding gap is key to Canada's prosperity
Until Canada’s spending aligns with our climate commitments, disasters will keep eating away at our economy
RANKINGS & REPORTS
Global 100
The world’s 100 most sustainable corporations
Best 50
An annual ranking of Canada's top corporate citizens
CLIMATE DOLLARS
A sector-by-sector report of Canada's climate investment gap
responsible funds
Top funds for the planet and your pocketbook
top 40 mba
An annual ranking of the world's most sustainable MBA programs
30 under 30
30 youth leaders making waves in sustainability
Future 50
Canada's fastest growing sustainable companies
clean 200
Top publicly listed companies by clean revenue
other ranking & reports
Corporate Knights reports, rankings and scorecards
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INSIDE OUR LATEST RANKING
Our latest Better World MBA ranking found that the top 40 business programs aren’t just teaching greener course materials; their grads are working in the trenches making business a force for good
LATEST STORIES
Meet the man most responsible for saving COP29 from irrelevancy
As oil lobbyists gain increasing influence at COP, UN climate chief Simon Stiell stresses the cost of inaction
An authoritarian petrostate takes centre stage as COP29 host
As the climate summit kicks off in Baku, Azerbaijan, its leader has vowed to move “towards a green agenda” while exploiting oil reserves deemed “a gift from god”
African MBA programs are reclaiming sustainability in business education
Business schools in Africa are moving beyond colonial influences and recentering the fight against climate change in their own local realities
The world’s most sustainable MBA programs are producing a generation of changemakers
The top 40 business programs aren’t just teaching greener course materials; their grads are working in the trenches making business a force for good
These 30 under 30 are leading a green youthquake
Gen Zs and young millennials are harnessing the power of the collective to drive seismic climate solutions
Can young Republicans wake their party up to climate change?
There’s a growing generational divide among Republicans over concerns about climate change. These are the young people trying to transform their party.
The rental market has a carbon problem – here’s how to solve it
Apartment buildings are hard to decarbonize, but some companies are finding ways to make rental housing more green
Alberta’s conservative party invites climate disinformation into policy debate
A pro-CO2 policy resolution to ditch net-zero targets would mark a new peak of anti-science rhetoric within Alberta’s UCP government
The oil and gas lobby is spending big to help Trump’s campaign
Gas prices are falling as the world transitions to renewable energy and fossil fuel companies are betting on Trump to pump the brakes
Who’s trying to kill the $17,000 electric car?
Canadians and Americans face a 48% surcharge for living in the wrong country. Or, more precisely, for keeping cheap, Chinese-built EVs out.
Can Quebec turn its green battery dreams into a reality?
The province wants to build the “world’s cleanest batteries” and corner North America’s EV supply chain. Will it work?
Green steel may be a climate game-changer. Which carmakers are making the shift?
The auto sector needs low-carbon steel to meet its own emissions targets, but carmakers have been slow to adopt the burgeoning technology
INSIDE THE CURRENT ISSUE
Our fall issue is bursting with stories that key into big debates around the world, including how to drive the electric transition forward, how to plant our way to a healthier planet, and of course – some much needed inspiration from this year’s crop of 30 sustainability leaders.
Who’s trying to kill the $17,000 electric car?
Marco Chown Oved
The soul and science of forests
Adria Vasil
An authoritarian petrostate takes centre stage as COP29 host
Rick Spence
As the climate summit kicks off in Baku, Azerbaijan, its leader has vowed to move “towards a green agenda” while exploiting oil reserves deemed “a gift from god”
University sustainability programs are trying to make classrooms more diverse
Heather Mak
A look at the sustainability programs at colleges and universities across North America raises the question: Do those classes include everyone who could or should be there?
Death of ESG is greatly exaggerated, say pension managers
Eugene Ellmen
While asset managers cast doubt on the effectiveness of ESG investing, asset owners are doubling down
Can weeds hold the key to turning farms into carbon-storage powerhouses?
Matt Simon
Groups like PlantVillage are getting farmers to stop burning field waste and turn it into yield-boosting, carbon-storing biochar instead
What we can learn from Mexico's struggle to ban a potent pesticide
Erin Nelson, Laura Gomez Tovar and Manuel Ángel Gómez Cruz
Canada needs to catch up on co-op housing: Three lessons from Europe’s success
Jennifer Hutcheon
OPINION | From Vienna’s “unitary housing market” to Holland’s unlimited lease model, Europe offer insights on how to improve housing affordability and support the co-op economy
Low-cost EVs on ‘verge of extinction’ as Canada slaps 100% tariff on Chinese cars
Mitchell Beer
While debate rages on over whether tariffs are levelling the playing field or missing an opportunity, Canadians looking for affordable EVs have “almost no options left”
Canadians want EVs they can afford - China has them. Let them in.
Toby Heaps and Ralph Torrie
from the archives
How to wean your house off natural gas (it’s complicated)
A practical guide to swapping your furnace (and A/C) for a heat pump
Canada’s biggest emitters are paying the lowest carbon tax rate
Oil and gas producers pay among the lowest average carbon costs of any sector – and it’s threatening Canada’s climate targets
Breaking through our climate inertia
Climate scientists say we need to go further, faster, but social scientists say we won’t get there unless we heal divisions
Of mice and men: Could COVID spell the end of animal testing?
The vaccine race is accelerating the emergence of a new frontier in science looking at alternatives to animal modelling