Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As a 2022 University of Regensburg study found, landlords couldn’t expect to recoup their investment by charging a “green premium” for retrofitted rental units, even after the government kicked in some of the carbon levy as an incentive.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Whether they’re legal advocates, entrepreneurs, activists, engineers-in-training or policy geeks, Corporate Knights’ 2022 Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leaders are using their collective skills to challenge the status quo and bend the arc of history toward a more just and sustainable future. They’re in good company.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

Thousands of structures that earned high EPC ratings were still emitting lots of carbon due to shortcomings in the ranking system. “In In some instances, they may amount to so-called ‘greenwashing’ with consumers effectively being deluded into thinking their ‘energy efficient’ home represents a better outcome for the environment.”.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Today he’s the Canada chair of the Carbon Leadership Forum, where he leads a team in empowering the building industry to address an issue it long ignored: the embodied carbon lurking in building materials. Clearly, he chose wisely. Siobhan Finan 26, Whistler, B.C

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