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

A tune whose time has come • Two decades in, CEOs are finally getting fired for fudging on ESG

NEWS BRIEFS • With 50–50 odds of hitting 1.5°C soon, UN calls for renewables peace project

Which brands are taking stands on Roe v. Wade?

Mastercard brings in sustainability-linked pay for all employees

Burger King pilots reusable packaging

Big cities tap earth, sea and sewage for community energy

LyondellBasell to exit oil refining business

The doomer’s guide to being a climate optimist • Even as political leaders dithered, there were tinkerers, technocrats and entrepreneurs toiling hard to assemble a climate-solutions toolkit equal to the enormous task. And I believe they’ve succeeded.

The big suck • Start-ups that pull carbon from the air have drawn significant interest from CEOs and policy-makers looking for new ways to rein in climate change. But the burgeoning industry still faces challenges.

Battle of the brews • Some innovative craft brewers are serving up sustainability, but Big Beer may be greener than you think

How to fix the broken carbon-offset system • First, don’t allow the fossil fuel industry to buy offsets – and create fair carbon-storage payments for people who live and work most closely with forests

50 cities • Introducing the Sustainable Cities Index

Women are shaping the world’s greenest cities • Female mayors are distinguishing themselves as climate leaders. Indeed, 50% of the top 10 sustainable cities are led by women.

Meet five women kicking butt on climate around the world • These female mayors are blazing a greener trail

Public or private – these 50 firms are growing like weeds • We sought out outstanding entrepreneurs and companies that are gaining significant traction in the fight against climate change

Top 25 fastest-growing publicly traded companies

Top 25 fastest-growing private companies

The age of incrementalism is over • Twenty years after our first Best 50, a lot has changed for the better and a lot hasn’t. We need our top corporate citizens to harness the engine of business in service of people and the planet.

Hydro-Québec • Utility tops Best 50 list again with ambition to become North America’s renewable “battery”

Return of the Corporate Knight • CEO Andrew Benedek topped our inaugural list of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens in 2002. He now leads one of Canada’s fastest-growing green firms.

Not-so-green buildings • Sustainable seals don’t always lead to efficient buildings

How to be a green mayor 101 • Cities are being asked to do a lot of the fire-fighting on climate change – and university-based urban leadership centres are helping train them for the challenge

Eye in the sky • Investors shine a satellite on fugitive methane emissions on three continents

HEROES & ZEROS

Industry associations have become barriers to climate policy • Corporate leaders in tech, finance and beyond need to reform their own associations

Knight Bites • Carbon sucks. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made waves when it suggested that in addition to deep and immediate carbon emission cuts, the world will need to get serious about deploying carbon removal technologies to draw a trillion tonnes of carbon out of the air. Some contenders: