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What we can learn from Mexico's struggle to ban a potent pesticide
Researchers are helping citrus farmers adopt agroecology practices to transition away from glyphosate, as the Mexican government wavers on whether to ban the weed killer
Biden administration proposes first ever rules to protect workers from heat waves
President Joe Biden looks to speed up heat safety regulations that could protect 36 million workers after Texas and Florida block cities from enacting their own protections
More than 60% of anti-green Conservative MPs lost seats in UK election
Advocates welcomed the departure of lawmakers who opposed strong climate policy in Labour’s landslide election
RANKING & 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
Sustainable Cities Index
The world’s first interactive, crowd-sourced sustainability index for cities
other ranking & reports
Corporate Knights reports, rankings and scorecards
resources
Resources for all rankings and reports
INSIDE OUR LATEST REPORT
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
Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs on to homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects
Insure Our Future wants insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects – including LNG export terminals – and make polluters pay for climate disasters rather than hiking rates for homeowners
Heroes: How these Swiss seniors won first-ever climate case in international court
Heat-related deaths have spiked by roughly 30% in Europe over the last two decades. A group of older Swiss women successfully argued their government wasn’t doing enough to protect them.
Parliament grilled Canada's Big Five banks on their fossil fuel financing - here's why it matters
OPINION | Their testimonies proved why new rules to shift finance away from polluting investments are urgently needed
How Sundance Commons is training the next generation of young, racialized farmers
With more than 40% of Canadian farmers retiring in the next decade, an urban farm in Toronto is giving marginalized youth the tools to start their own farm businesses
Canada’s new greenwashing ban rattles fossil fuel industry
Bill C-59 has barred companies from making claims they can’t back up, but what kind of difference will it make?
Tom Mulcair gets to the heart of green governance
The former leader of the NDP, who won the 2024 Corporate Knights Award of Distinction, changed how government thinks about sustainable development
These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green
Best 50 companies are pouring seven times more into sustainable investments than the average Canadian corporation
Who are Canada's top international corporate citizens of 2024?
Corporate Knights ranks the most sustainable corporations with a subsidiary in Canada
Montreal's transit corporation drives into top spot of Canada's best corporate citizens for 2024
How Société de transport de Montréal is turning its sustainable mobility vision into reality at high speed
Can a wave of chief heat officers help cool a melting planet?
In the ‘era of global boiling,’ cities and states are turning to heat czars to craft climate responses that mitigate the impact of extreme heat
Here's the secret to cooling India’s buildings
While ‘Western style’ buildings are making India’s heat waves worse, architects are reviving cooler indigenous ways of building
‘Keep going’: How an Indigenous woman fought a coal mine and won
Murrawah Maroochy Johnson, a Wirdi woman of the Birri Gubba Nation, led a groundbreaking First Nations legal battle in Australia. She received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.
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.
Could the video game industry be key to levelling up on climate action?
Alex Robinson
New research shows that video game players are more likely to engage in collective action on global warming, while industry tries to tackle emissions
Indigenous knowledge keepers take their clean energy expertise abroad
Natalie Alcoba
Indigenous Peoples in Canada have become renewable-energy powerhouses. Now they’re using their knowledge to help Indigenous communities across the world.
Clean energy stocks are making a comeback
Eugene Ellmen
It’s been a rough few years for the sector, but expectations of lower interest rates and long-term demand for renewable energy is helping turn things around
How climate change is rocking the wine industry
Laila Benkrima
Drought conditions, heat waves and smoke from forest fires have heavily impacted grape yields in Canada and beyond, forcing an age-old industry to turn to new technologies and methods to survive
How a wave of developers turning office buildings into apartments could create more walkable cities
John Weigand
Even though less than one third of older buildings in the U.S. can be profitably converted, architects and developers are quickly learning how find the good candidates
EV Faceoff: Which large Canadian city has the most chargers?
Stephanie Wallcraft
We rated EV charging infrastructure in eight Canadian cities
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