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

Into the arena • Why I decided to stop being a critic on the sidelines and run for office

Corporate Knights • The water emergency is here, and we can do something about it

‘Carbon neutral’ and ‘net-zero’ claims face global crackdown on greenwashing

Insurance giants exit net-zero pact

As AI threatens jobs, green gigs offer silver lining

New York City gets tough on beef

Growing tomatoes with the heat from computers?

Saving forests one piece of clothing at a time

Winds of war • Can an embattled coal-heavy energy company lead Ukraine’s clean energy revolution?

Balancing the climate books • Meet the women warrior accountants excelling at climate action

Taking charge • Led by Six Nations, Ontario is building one of North America’s largest battery farms

Hooked on nitrogen • How farmers can break free of their synthetic fertilizer addiction and the emissions that come with it

AI VS CLIMATE CHANGE • Dystopian narratives of malevolent AI and climate catastrophe abound. But what if one human-made monster could defeat another?

AI Q&A • We asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT, what’s a bigger threat to the planet, you or climate change?

The Green House Effect • Four climate solutions can save Canadian households $4,300 a year on average

Electric vehicles

Heat pumps

Water heaters & induction stoves

These corporate citizens are a cut above • Two decades into the Best 50, the top Canadian companies continue to evolve and invest in a cleaner future

Top company profile Innergex Renewable Energy • This Quebec company is betting the wind farm on the world’s unquenchable thirst for renewables

Canada’s 50 fastest-growing problem solvers • Our second annual ranking features Canada’s most ambitious entrepreneurs who are scaling up quickly to solve big problems

A mushrooming economy • Fungi-based cleantech is springing up around the world

Why fungi are the new frontier • From mushroom leather to mycelium insulation, fungi start-ups are part of a booming mushroom economy

Moving beyond the autocratic CEO • Business leaders need to transition to more collaborative and communicative methods to be effective in today’s fast-moving world

HEROES & ZEROS

It’s time for a modern industrial strategy • The three keys to kick-starting Canada’s netzero industrial policy

Knight Bites • How to slash plastic pollution by 50 to 80% by 2040. The world churns out 430 million tonnes of plastic every year, and plastic consumption is set to double by 2040, then triple by 2060. Ahead of a second round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty in Paris in late May, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) laid out an action plan for business and government to end the planet’s enormous waste habit: