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

Corporate Knights

The firms in the 2025 Global 100 ranking allocated 58% of their investments to sustainable projects in 2023, up from 55% in the prior year. That figure compares with sustainable investments of just 15% for the 8,259 other publicly traded companies with revenues of more than $1 billion in the Global 100 universe. Telus Corp.

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Clean 200 list shows sustainable companies on path to dominate global economy

Corporate Knights

They also beat the global benchmark MSCI ACWI by 30% from July 1, 2016, to January 29, 2025. Clean200 data show that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as all other revenues over the past five years.

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Unilever sets $1.2B sales target for meat and dairy alternatives

GreenBiz

Unilever also announced plans to bring forward its goal of halving food waste from its global operations by five years to 2025, a move commended by Liz Goodwin, senior fellow and director of food loss and waste at the World Resources Institute.

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Food waste contributes 10% to global emissions but 9 out of 10 countries’ NDCs fail to focus on food waste and loss

Envirotec Magazine

WRAP warns that food loss and waste have devastating impacts on society and global economies too. The World Economic Forum estimates that food loss and waste costs the global economy $936 billion a year, while more than 783 million people go hungry and a third of humanity faces food insecurity.

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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, October 2024

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Third-quarter GDP reports reveal a mixed global economy. The IMF forecasts a slow but stable global trajectory into 2025. China faces an economic slowdown; the United States sees growth; and the eurozone is stable.

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Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause?

GreenBiz

Microsoft committed to protect more land than it operates on globally by 2025. When more than 190,000 humans died of COVID-19 globally, nearly five times the number one month earlier, and more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs. When the global economy essentially sank like a stone as people world over sheltered in place.

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Trade in Transition: South America Looks to Neutrality, Opportunity

3BL Media

Thanks to its neutral stance, the region is not just weathering geopolitical tensions its thriving, according to DP Worlds 2025 Trade in Transition report. The annual report, co-authored with Economist Impact, examines the headwinds of global trade in 2025 and their impact around the world.