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

Corporate Knights

While many companies, particularly in the fossil fuel and banking sectors, resist any major departure from their lucrative business-as-usual path, the leaders are doubling down on sustainability. In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior.

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The Need for Adaptation Nomenclature

Chris Hall

Despite a booming sustainable debt market – with aligned green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bond volume expected to hit US$1 trillion by year-end – the focus has been primarily on mitigation efforts through ‘pure play’ green sectors and assets, with less emphasis on adaptation and resilience.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. Resch sees her common career thread as what she calls "social sustainability.". Her United Nations path started in 2015 when she supported the Sustainable Development Goals at the Executive Office of the U.N.

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Take Five: From America to the World

Chris Hall

Second-quarter issuance represented US$238 billion, down 20% year-on-year, while global issuance of green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds totalled US$238 billion – also down 20%. million) from institutional investors based in the UK, Europe and Asia.