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2024 30 Under 30Fall 2024

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

Fall 2024Leadership

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.

BuildingsFall 2024

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

RANKINGS & REPORTS

Global 100

The world’s 100 most sustainable corporations

Best 50

An annual ranking of Canada's top corporate citizens

CLIMATE DOLLARS

An analysis of committed versus actual federal government climate spendings

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

resources

Resources for all rankings and reports

INSIDE OUR LATEST RANKING

Now in its 23rd year, the Best 50 tracks how Canadian companies are meeting the green transition challenge – as well as where they’re getting stuck in the process.

LATEST STORIES

Decarbonization
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

Finance
Four key lessons from the world’s top responsible investors

Should investors divest or engage? Can you responsibly invest in AI? The latest learnings and key obstacles for the responsible investment community

Transportation
This Ontario farmer is leading a movement to stop a highway

Max Hansgen is one of the key figures in the struggle to halt development of Highway 413 in Ontario’s Greenbelt

Fall 2024Natural Capital
Great Bear Sea’s blueprint for doing business with nature

On British Columbia’s north coast, First Nations are harnessing conservation finance to build a new economy

Climate
Canadian cities are taking steps to restrict fossil fuel ads on public transit

Montreal and Toronto are moving to prevent Big Oil from making false claims on municipal buses, trains, and bike-share programs

Climate
Canada caught between climate obligations and dissent at home

As Ottawa weighs how to increase its climate targets, Alberta and Ontario fight to lower ambitions

Energy
Doubts hang over ‘miracle’ coal-plant conversion in West Virginia

When Omnis Energy pitched a plan to produce graphite at Pleasants Power Station, they were treated as saviours. Now some are wondering if the project is too good to be true

Food
Activist investors convince fast food chains to adopt climate targets

Shareholder activists have successfully pressured the fast food chains Jack in the Box and Wingstop to set their first measurable climate targets

Finance
Death of ESG is greatly exaggerated, say pension managers

While asset managers cast doubt on the effectiveness of ESG investing, asset owners are doubling down

Climate
Uncertainty hobbles industry in race to net-zero

To make the necessary investments in decarbonization, Canada’s heavy industries say they need stable climate policies

Chrystia Freeland green taxonomy gas
Finance
Canada’s new sustainable finance rules don’t go far enough

OPINION | Despite the welcome arrival of long-awaited green taxonomy, Canada is still losing the race to decarbonize if we leave the door open to gas

EducationFall 2024
University sustainability programs are trying to make classrooms more diverse

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?

INSIDE THE CURRENT ISSUE

Our summer issue is packed full of stories about how cities are trying to keep their cool in record-smashing summer heat, the rising temperature on the debate between the Global North and South on resource development, and much more.

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from the archives

How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Energy
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 carbon tax: Who's paying (and not paying) | An illustration of a person sweeping dirt under a rug
Climate CrisisEnergyWinter 2022
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

Climate CrisisWinter 2021
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

Fall 2020Leadership
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

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