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Corporate Knights

8 Steps • Canada can take right now to get us to a net-zero-emission economy

Harvard gives in to pressures to divest from fossil fuels (mostly)

Big Food is hiding the carbon footprint of your lunch

Global climate emissions from agriculture

Does working for a sustainable company make you happier?

Mental Health Index

Top fashion brands are drenched in oil: Report

Is China’s forced Uyghur labour hiding in Canadian supply chains?

Green sector is still way too white, survey says

What’s next… • The latest in green innovations and milestones that give us hope

The race against time • The EU plans to “fundamentally transform” its economy in this “make-or-break decade.” (The rest of the world should take notes.)

House on fire • How to cleanly heat a cold country that’s hooked on planet-roasting natural gas

Steal this plan • While climate chaos exacerbates inequality, our neighbours to the south are showing us that bold public policy can help

Canadian pensions are retiring fossil fuel investments • New pension research reveals Canada’s retirement savings are quietly offloading fossil fuels and onloading climate solutions

Equity investments in oil and gas

NATURE’S DAY IN COURT • After securing legal rights for one northern Quebec river, groups are fighting to make Canada’s largest river next. Corporate polluters, beware.

COURT VICTORIES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE

YOUTH COURT NOW IN SESSION • Millennials and Gen Zs are suing governments and pension funds over their failures to address the climate crisis. And they’re winning.

2021 30 UNDER 30 • Meet the teens and 20-somethings proving that hope comes from taking action

Think global, teach local • Pandemic pushes top business schools to look beyond siloed departments on sustainability

Indigenizing business schools • With an imperative for the corporate sector to work with First Peoples globally, MBAs are finally revamping programs

Class is in session for Indigenous entrepreneurs

Reverse mentoring • Having millennials and Gen Zs on corporate “shadow boards” and business school governance committees can speed up innovation

Balk balk • The chicken industry says its meat is better for the planet than beef, but efficiency claims come with setbacks for animal welfare

Accounting for slavery • If companies want to embrace social purpose, we need to weed out business structures rooted in oppression

Canada’s top 40 carbon emitters • Investors team up to demand ambitious climate action from the country’s biggest GHG polluters

HEROES & ZEROS

Why mining companies must prioritize the path to decarbonization

Knight Bites • Global COP26 climate summit to-do list: World leaders are meeting in Glasgow in November to seek consensus on how to prevent climate chaos. Here are a few key goals the UN and COP26’s U.K. hosts hope to get countries to agree to.