Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Corporate Knights Global 100 ranking of the worlds most sustainable firms, now in its 21st year, shows that the top firms continue to increase their investment in the green transition. Were finding that growth in sustainable revenues is outpacing all other revenues, says Toby Heaps, co-founder and CEO of Corporate Knights.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. When we launched this ranking in 2005, the green economy was a quaint idea.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

But are nuclear green bonds suitable for ESG-focused investors, given the long delays, cost overruns, and safety and waste risks of nuclear plants? Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems? congressional hearings in the 1980s.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

While most of these firms are located in the United States, there are some serious players in Africa and Europe leads in terms of PE support for standards of responsible and sustainable investments. billion to invest in companies that provide solutions to environmental or social challenges.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

However, she noted that the success of such plans will be determined by the levels of investment the government must mobilise, noting that the international environment for green investment is becoming “more competitive”, as other countries begin to put their transition plans into action. US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – which (..)

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ESG Today

JULY 24, 2022

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

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Chris Hall

JULY 29, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including EQT Future, SCOR, LeapFrog, GIG, SMBC and the US SEC. . Kimm is Chief Sustainability Officer at HeidelbergCement and serves on EQT AB’s Board of Directors.

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