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

Carbon is not enough • The importance of quantifying and qualifying nature’s full value

Corporate Knights • Volume 24 Issue 3

Letters

Canada needs to play to win • With the right game plan, this could be the Canadian century

Corporate Knights • Can Mark Carney play both sides?

Cleantech in the crucible • Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada and his administration’s hostility to climate action have forced Canadian cleantech companies into survival mode

The other sovereignty threat • Monopolies and oligopolies cost Canadians tens of billions every year. They also undermine our national independence.

The new era of policing green dissent • With an existential showdown between climate campaigners and the fossil fuel industry underway, more subtle ways of stifling environmental activism are taking root under Trump

The next economy • How cooperatives are stepping into the spotlight to solve our most pressing challenges

Food • Where the aisles belong to everyone

Housing • At a time when even basic housing has become alarmingly unattainable for many, cooperative housing is making a comeback

Energy • What Canada can learn from co-op power in the rural United States

Banking • For financial cooperatives, aka credit unions, reaching young people is a challenge – and a huge opportunity

Carving out a more sustainable future • Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens are engineering a low-carbon economy in a shifting landscape

Investing for the long term • For the renewable-energy producer Boralex, taking responsibility for its social and environmental impact is just good strategy

REPLENISH THE EARTH • In 2018, McCain Foods commissioned a study to find out how climate change might affect the supply of potatoes it requires to be the world’s largest producer of frozen french fries. The results prompted a radical shift toward regenerative agriculture across its global supply chain.

THE PRICE IS RIGHT • Solving the climate emergency would cost less than perpetuating the polluting, 20th-century energy system that we have today

As egg prices soar, African women lead solutions • How East Africa’s womenled poultry co-ops are feeding communities when global markets fail

Ken Dryden’s long game • The legendary goalie, politician and winner of the Corporate Knights 2025 Award of Distinction has spent his life in service to future generations

HEROES & ZEROS

It’s choosing time • ‘All of the above’: When a pragmatic approach to climate change becomes a new form of denial

KNIGHT BITES • Six steps to a future we can afford