Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

Thankfully, the glass ceilings in Canada’s corporate boardrooms have been breached, with non-male members now making up almost a third of directors, double their one-sixth share in 2002. Reducing the number of workplace deaths (now 335 per year) to zero by 2030 means getting a lot more vigilant about safety.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. The hard work of Canadians is paying off,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said. this year, up 9% over last year’s 49.7% – that’s compared to just 8.4%

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Founded in Burnaby in 2002, GF just announced it has raised US$130 million, bringing its total capital to $300 million. Summit uses advanced materials to directly extract lithium from natural brines, a process that doubles the yield, requires no fresh water, and reduces chemical use and waste by 90%. in partnership with the U.K.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

Since 2002, Corporate Knights’ ranking of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens has been tracing public and private companies as well as Crown corporations with more than $1 billion in revenues. Companies have also discovered that happy, healthy employees, customers and communities create healthier markets – and happier shareholders.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. We are one piece of a big puzzle,” she says, estimating that two-thirds of the investment required to achieve net-zero by 2050 will come from the private sector.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Currently, more than 40% of the world’s largest publicly traded companies have made net-zero commitments as of the end of 2022, up from 20% in December 2020 5. However, only 50% of companies with net-zero targets were found to have a GHG emissions reduction plan that includes intermediate targets 6.

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Late January saw the country’s population hit 27 million, more than 30 years earlier than was predicted in the federal Treasury’s 2002 Intergenerational Report. Creating powerful, connected industrial eco-systems is the first step towards optimising operations, reducing waste and enabling innovation to occur on the fly.

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