Corporate Knights

Providing information empowering markets to foster a better world. Corporate Knights produces editorial at the intersection of business and society, with news and analysis about sustainability and corporate sustainability rankings

The three forces impacting the energy transition • The shift to a low-carbon economy faces challenges – but for investors, these issues could bring new opportunities.

Corporate Knights • Volume 23 Issue 2

Letters

It’s time to shed our shibboleths • The environmental movement should discard its long-held beliefs about the carbon tax, nuclear power and conservatives

Corporate Knights • Amsterdam becomes latest big city to sign Plant Based Treaty

Unlike U.S. banks, Canada’s Big Five keep upping their fossil fuel financing

New York’s electric skyscraper test

Apple tops list of Clean200 companies

U.S. SEC waters down its climate reporting rule under legal threats

Fixing our ailing food system could cook up trillions a year in benefits

The gale forces of green hydrogen • Newfoundland’s Project Nujio'qonik could transform the craggy coast into Canada’s first commercial wind-to-hydrogen hub, but not everyone is stoked

Is Canada’s carbon tax worth fighting over? • The current ‘take no prisoners’ political battle over Canada’s carbon tax threatens what climate progress has been made. There is a compromise that could lower the temperature.

Kelp is coming • As seaweed farming blooms in North America, what threat does it pose to our ecosystems?

Are cities losing their green mojo? • Canada’s urban centres are driving climate progress in this country. They’re also struggling to meet their 2030 targets.

Planting an urban tree revolution • As the true value of urban forests comes to light, North American cities are working to expand their canopies

A tale of two bike cities • Cycling advocates in Washington, D.C., and Montreal have worked toward the same goal, but with starkly different results

Out of range? • EV Faceoff: We rate EV charging infrastructure in eight Canadian cities

We need to talk about Meat • Despite efforts to make it sound sustainable, meat is roasting the planet. A plant-based revolution is taking root.

COOKING THE BOOKS • The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

WILL ALTERNATIVE SEAFOOD SINK OR SWIM? • The faux fish and mollusks industry is hoping to serve ocean-friendly food for a growing planet

CRUNCHING DATA, NOT MEAT • Chile’s AI-led NotCo is cooking up a plant-based takeover of Big Food

AFRO-PLANTISM • Africa’s role in the plant-based future

IS IT TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON SLAUGHTERHOUSE WORK? • More than 100 years after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposed the horrors of working in a slaughterhouse, calls mount for a just transition

NO MORE BULL SHIT • Organic agriculture has become synonymous with spreading manure. Veganic farmers are cultivating a greener path.

GOING NUCLEAR? • Climate-conscious investors are asking whether they should consider nuclear ‘green’ bonds or rule them out because of long delays, cost overruns and safety risks

The promise of swapping debt for nature • Converting a portion of Africa’s debt into funds dedicated to conservation and climate action can be a potent tool. Is it working?

HEROES & ZEROS

The price of climate progress • Tracking climate spending is key to getting us to net-zero

KNIGHT BITES