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Finance
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

FoodSummer 2024
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

Climate
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?

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LeadershipSummer 2024
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

2024 Best 50 art
2024 Best 50Summer 2024
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

Best International Corporate Citizen (3)
2024 Best 50Summer 2024
Who are Canada's top international corporate citizens of 2024?

Corporate Knights ranks the most sustainable corporations with a subsidiary in Canada

2024 Best 50 Corporate Knights
2024 Best 50Summer 2024
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

ClimateSummer 2024
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

BuildingsSummer 2024
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

Leadership
‘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.

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LeadershipSummer 2024
Indigenous knowledge keepers take their clean energy expertise abroad

Indigenous Peoples in Canada have become renewable-energy powerhouses. Now they’re using their knowledge to help Indigenous communities across the world.

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EnergySummer 2024
Their land, their call: When economic reconciliation and climate justice conflict

Indigenous communities hope to use loans to turn natural resources into prosperity for their communities before the sun sets on the oil and gas era

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