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

Corporate Knights

Letters

Lessons of giants will bring us to a greener future • Let’s counteract the forces delaying our arrival by choosing a brighter tomorrow

Bank sector’s net-zero promises put to test with fossil fuel expansion

Divesting works: Study finds ditching fossil stocks lowers corporate footprints

Investors demand more corporations conduct ‘racial audits’

Tree-burning Drax power plants dropped from green energy index

Is employee ownership a better way for businesses to beat the Big Quit?

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

A fair phase-out for fossil fuels • As climate risks mount, how do we avoid a fossil fuel fire sale?

Batteries not included • What happens if Indigenous people say no to mining the minerals needed to run electric cars?

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

The race for innovative sustainability solutions post-COP26 • How the private sector can play its part in crowdsourcing sustainable innovations to make buildings more climate-resilient and resource-efficient

5 ways to not screw up the green transition • Each country with a fossil-fuel centred economy will need to find ways to transform itself while minimizing the disruption to its citizens.

Rare opportunities • Recycling coal waste unearths metals crucial to net-zero future

Lessons from the ‘yellow vests’ • What I learned from France’s energy protesters on how to transform the economy

The 2022 Global 100 • Our 18th annual ranking shows the world’s cleanest firms are going green in a hurry, but even the most diligent companies must evolve

Best in faux • Appetite for vegan and lab-grown pet food feeds market for animalfree brands

Canada is ‘stuck at the starting gate’ of global decarbonizing • We need to bridge the “say–do gap” today to meet our 2030 targets, panellists at Earth Index launch say

HEROES & ZEROS

The zero-carbon business leader takes shape • Three actions leaders can take now to accelerate the race to net-zero

Knight Bites • Mind the billionaire wealth gap. The latest World Inequality Report estimates that, collectively, the planet’s billionaires own 3.5% of global household wealth, soaring from roughly 2% at the start of the pandemic. How do they fare against their average employee?