Corporate Knights

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Corporate Knights • Volume 23 Issue 3

Letters

Can a global plastics treaty be reached after talks languished in Ottawa?

The backroom battle for Canada’s climate future • Climate-forward corporations the world over are raising their voices against trade groups that undermine climate policy. So far, corporate Canada is holding its tongue.

How to attract investors with two wheels • A former industrial town in Denmark transformed itself into a tech hub, partly by embracing bikes. Could North American cities reinvent themselves in the same way?

Canada’s big bank squeeze • As Canadians struggle under the rising cost of living and record levels of debt, Canada’s Big Five banks are quietly skimming billions as margins expand

Global South rising • Voices from the Global South are pushing back against the finger-wagging ‘hypocrisy’ of a Global North that keeps burning fossil fuels

THEIR LAND, THEIR CALL • WHEN ECONOMIC RECONCILIATION AND CLIMATE JUSTICE CONFLICT

CLEAN ENERGY KNOWLEDGE KEEPERS • Indigenous Peoples in Canada have become renewable-energy powerhouses. Now they’re using their knowledge to help Indigenous communities abroad.

Betting big on green • Best 50 companies are pouring seven times more into sustainable investments than the average Canadian corporation

Société de transport de Montréal • Montreal transit corporation drives into top spot on list of Canada’s best corporate citizens

HOT in the CITY • In the ‘era of global boiling,’ will a wave of heat czars lower the temperature on climate-crisis response?

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

UNRAVELLING THREADS • As innovative designers refashion second-hand clothing in Africa, is it enough to take on the torrent of waste flooding the continent?

The heart of green governance • Tom Mulcair changed how a government thinks about sustainable development, and helped make a healthy environment a human right in Quebec

Harvesting change • With more than 40% of Canadian farmers retiring in the next decade, Sundance Commons is training marginalized youth to start their own farm businesses

HEROES & ZEROS

The price of driving the EV transition • Electrifying Canada’s roads won’t cost much more than we already pay

Knight Bites • SIX WAYS CITIES ARE COOLING DOWN IN RECORD HEAT