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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

With sustainable investment, its the same story, Heaps says. That green investment is key to a more sustainable future, telling us where companies are going as opposed to where they currently derive their revenues. Sustainable capital expenditure is growing twice as fast as all other capex.

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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

Now in its 20th year, Corporate Knights’ Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable companies reveals the top firms that are increasing their investments in green solutions such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and the circular economy. When we launched the Global 100 in 2005, the green economy was a quaint idea.

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227MW solar farm completed in Alabama to support Facebook data center

Renewable Energy World

The utility has already reduced emissions by 63% since 2005. This solar farm is a historic moment in TVA history," said Doug Perry, Senior Vice President, TVA Commercial Energy Solutions, adding: "It's the first Green Invest project to come online, and it demonstrates the value of TVA's focus on cleaner energy.

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A B Corp Month Collective Climate Action Resource

B the Change

The resource highlights green investment strategies, sustainable promotional products, methods to eliminate food waste, guidance on tradeshow materials and travel, and business climate solutions. “Climate solutions are possible, and climate impact is an option for all business sizes.

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Assembling the Pieces of the Carbon Pricing Puzzle

Chris Hall

To encourage companies to adopt low-carbon business operations and products, the ETS was first introduced in 2005 to cover around 40% of EU emissions. Already a cornerstone of EU legislation, the EU ETS is now targeting a 62% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels – a target that some view as lacking ambition. .

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Take Five: Australia’s Long Haul

Chris Hall

Due to be approved in September, following passage through the House of Representatives earlier this month, Labor PM Anthony Albanese’s proposed legislation aims higher than Biden’s, seeking a 43% emissions cut below 2005 levels by 2030. Not if the SEC has its way.

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Legislative Carrot Feeds US Climate Transition

Chris Hall

A green wave The IRA has set a number of new green investment opportunities into motion, with around US$28 billion in new manufacturing investments already announced by October 2022. One of the “biggest areas of opportunity” lies in solar energy, according to Lazard AM’s Singhal.