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Transportation

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.

Supply Chain

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?

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

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

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

Education
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?

Climate
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

Climate
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.

Energy
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

Climate
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

Food
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.

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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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