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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
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Global 100
The world’s 100 most sustainable corporations
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
The soul and science of forests
Renowned botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger, the “Jane Goodall of trees,” says that to save the living planet and the human race, we have to save the trees
A clear and overdue path to accounting for natural assets in Canada
OPINION: In the face of wildfires and floods, more cities are measuring the financial value of natural assets like wetlands and forests. But there’s still a long way to go.
The crypto industry was supposed to decarbonize by 2025 – how’s that going?
There’s evidence the industry has started putting plans into action, but the energy consumption of Bitcoin networks is still higher than countries like Norway and Sweden
How climate change is hitting the iconic Serengeti and Maasai Mara
Mara-Serengeti is rapidly warming. Floods, droughts and temperature rises are having a profound effect on wildlife survival and biodiversity
Dutch supermarkets are trying to get shoppers to choose plant-based proteins over meat
Dutch grocer Jumbo turned heads this year when it stopped discounting fresh animal meat. Other European supermarkets are also trying to shift protein sales to improve diets and cut emissions.
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.
Canada caught between climate obligations and dissent at home
Shawn McCarthy
As Ottawa weighs how to increase its climate targets, Alberta and Ontario fight to lower ambitions
Doubts hang over ‘miracle’ coal-plant conversion in West Virginia
Taylor Kate Brown and Sarah Elbeshbishi
Uncertainty hobbles industry in race to net-zero
Shawn McCarthy
New degree is training the next generation of leaders in animal ethics and sustainability
Jessica Scott-Reid
Huron University program wants grads to “hit the ground running” as ethical entrepreneurs and leaders in the public, private and non-profit sectors
Can Tim Walz mobilize Americans on climate change?
Alex Robinson
How cities are nudging tourists to go green
Lorraine Whitmarsh and Nicole Koenig-Lewis
Why this investor advocate quit filing oil and gas shareholder proposals
Matt Price
OPINION | Investors for Paris Compliance has yet to see any large Canadian investors take meaningful steps to press oil and gas companies on net-zero
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
How new elevator rules can help fix the housing crisis in North America
John Lorinc
A new report unpacks why North American elevators are much more costly than their European counterparts and why that price divergence has huge implications for built form
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