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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments. Smaller and nimbler, cities are becoming showpieces of successful climate action, and the protagonists of this spectacle of municipal leadership are increasingly women.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. Since 2002 (the year we published our first Best 50 list), Best 50 companies have rewarded their shareholders with 128% higher returns than the overall composite index.

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Green Mountain Energy Customers Advance Sustainability by Choosing Renewable Energy

3BL Media

With each passing year, it becomes increasingly clear that everyone must work together to mitigate the effects of climate change. Since its founding in 2002, Sun Club has donated more than $11 million to 143 nonprofit organizations across Texas and the Northeast. In 2021 alone, Sun Club donated $1.3

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. Slater helped to formulate the second version of the GRI’s sustainability reporting guidelines, published in 2002. Recent reports from the U.K.’s

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This Week’s People Moves: AXA IM Appoints Head of Inclusion, Diversity and Engagement

Chris Hall

Singh joined AXA IM in July 2015 as Head of Human Resources for Asia and Japan, having began his career in 2002 at the Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales. The real estate sector has a pivotal role to play in mitigating the impact of climate change and creating resilient communities,” she said.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation

But in many, women themselves have collaborated to launch a cooperative, and the cooperative movement has expanded beyond the agriculture and rural labor sectors to include cooperatives for childcare, midwifery, handicrafts, and banking and microfinancing. And I wondered like I have a hundred times before how life goes on here, unabashedly.

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This Week’s People Moves: Simpson Steps Down as CDP CEO

Chris Hall

Paul Simpson is stepping down after 12 years as CEO of environmental disclosure platform CDP , which he co-founded in 2002, with Paul Dickinson, Tessa Tennant and Jeremy Smith. Sturgeon joins from consultancy firm Mott MacDonald, where she worked as the Regenerative Design and Climate Change Practice Lead for the APAC region.

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