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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. Waste management $20,010 4% 57% 95% 100% B- 54 64 Cisco Systems Inc San Jose, U.S.

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Will small modular reactors seed a nuclear renaissance?

Corporate Knights

The prospect of micro reactors dotting remote Canadian landscapes also raises serious issues around safety and management of highly radioactive wastes. Corporate Knights does not consider new nuclear power projects to be “green” in its Sustainable Economy Taxonomy. And then there are SMRs.

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How insurance companies can move the needle on climate change

Corporate Knights

Insurance has wide-ranging influence, and insurance companies can help decarbonize much more than their own operations. New insurance products and green investments can also support advancements in cleantech, allowing insurers to have a far-reaching impact on climate. Helping clients adopt more sustainable practices.

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Divided We Fall: Why The Climate Community Can’t Afford To Break Apart

We Mean Business Coalition

Many people are cautious about the intentions of companies that have committed to decarbonization and with some reason. There have been bad faith actors from the corporate world, greenwashing their activities, depleting the world’s resources, damaging the environment and wasting the planet’s and the climate movement’s time and energies.

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Comcast Issues its First $1 Billion Green Bond

ESG Today

The offering follows the publication last month by Comcast of its Green Financing Framework, outlining eligible use of proceeds for green bond offerings, as well as the guidelines for project evaluation and selection, management of proceeds, and reporting obligations. Comcast announced its 2035 carbon neutrality goal in 2021.

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Four ways 2023 could be a game changer for green buildings

Corporate Knights

doesn’t suck green investment out of Canada, including investment that will decarbonize buildings. . Herewith, a sampling of what 2023 may have to offer in the world of green buildings. . Green ‘proptech’. Carbon disclosure makes for green buildings.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

This week in ESG news: Vanguard launches its first impact fund; Biden considers declaration of climate change emergency; Deutsche Bank appoints its first Chief Sustainability Officer; UK government given 8 months by high court to come up with a climate plan; BlackRock acquires waste-to-renewable gas company for $700 million; PepsiCo issues $1.25