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

Corporate Knights

But in the coming year, many businesses will have no such luck as they navigate major changes to the global tax and regulatory environment that has been encouraging investment in more sustainable technologies and practices. With sustainable investment, its the same story, Heaps says. While the new U.S.

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If we want to compete, Canada needs a green and transition taxonomy ASAP

Corporate Knights

To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 , the Government of Canada has invested billions of dollars in practical efforts to lessen the effects of climate change and encourage clean economic growth. Together, a combined green and transition taxonomy can support a holistic approach to achieve a low-carbon transition.

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

Corporate Knights

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. “We did the best job possible with limited qualitative corporate disclosure.” “Now

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Solar jobs are leading the clean energy surge, but a worker shortage looms

Corporate Knights

While 2023 was not a banner year for green energy stocks, which became overvalued (see Sustainable Funds guide p. xx), preliminary data show it was another big year for investing in clean energy overall. The IEA projected that investors would smash previous green investment records, piling US$1.7

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EU Launches Green Deal Industrial Plan

ESG Today

The plan focuses on key areas including creating a simpler regulatory framework to facilitate net zero industries, upskilling the European workforce for the green transition, accelerating access to investment and financing, and enhancing global trade cooperation for cleantech and raw materials.

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H&M Launches Green Loan Program to Finance Suppliers’ Emissions Reductions Initiatives

ESG Today

Tan Su Shan, Group Head of Institutional Banking at DBS, said: “Accelerating net zero for supply chains requires the rapid scaling of low-carbon technologies and new, innovative financing models to drive adoption. For us, sustainability investments are not only a responsible approach but a strategic necessity for future success.”

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Take Five: Nature Takes New York

Chris Hall

Nine out of ten – Using home-field advantage in New York Climate Week , US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen unveiled nine “voluntary” ‘Principles for Net-Zero Financing and Investment’, aimed at promoting “consistency and credibility” in the actions of financial institutions that have made net zero commitments.