By Chris Prentice, Isla Binnie, Jarret Renshaw, and Douglas Gillison, Reuters Feb 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has removed some of its most ambitious greenhouse gas emission disclosure requirements from corporate climate risk rules it is preparing to adopt, people familiar with the matter said …
Blue is the Next Green: Bonds Financing Water Conservation Projects are Approaching a ‘Tipping Point’
By Aruni Soni, Business Insider The market for bonds financing water conservation projects is approaching a “tipping point.” The market is small, just about $5 billion, but it’s seeing more enthusiasm than the early green bond market. “There’s a pretty strong economic argument to be made for investing in those …
The Only Value Sustainability Can’t Possibly Have
By Daniel Aronson, Sustainable Brands Right now, far too much of the business world is giving sustainability a value of zero, when nothing could be farther from the truth. Years ago, MIT Professor John Sterman told his students that if something matters, but you don’t measure it, you are giving it the only value …
Eight Ways the Sustainable Economy is (Still) Taking Over
By Toby Heaps, Corporate Knights After 20 years of the Global 100, sustainability is now embedded as a dominant macroeconomic growth trend. Last month, reporter David Gelles, of The New York Times, wrote that at Davos this year, the climate crisis had largely been “relegated to the back burner.” That …
Climate dollars: A Roadmap to a Post-Fossil Fuel Future
By Ralph Torrie, Corporate Knights Corporate Knights is launching a major new project to identify the gap between what we are doing and what must be done to put the economy on a sustainable footing. With the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic all but complete, greenhouse gas emissions have …
Navigating Nearshoring: An Evolution in Resilient Manufacturing
By Misha Govsteyn, Sustainable Brands By shortening supply chains, optimizing resource utilization and reducing waste, nearshoring enhances economic resilience and embodies a shift towards a more sustainable and environmentally conscious approach to manufacturing. As a strategic imperative in the face of global supply chain disruptions, the nearshoring (or reshoring) movement has emerged as a viable …
The Global 100 List: How the World’s Most Sustainable Corporations are Driving the Green Transition
By Shawn Mccarthy, Corporate Knights Now in its 20th year, the Global 100 ranking reveals that corporate leaders ?are pouring more of their revenues into sustainable investments than ever As 2023 came to a close, the World Meteorological Organization declared it to be the hottest year on record. One week …
Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders: 10 Measures to Close the Emissions-Reduction Gap
Sustainable Brands New WEF report finds a 600-gigaton gap in national emissions-reduction ambitions and policies that must be closed to keep 1.5°C target alive, and outlines 10 ways for businesses and governments to accelerate decarbonization and close this gap. The Alliance for CEO Climate Leaders, a CEO-led community facilitated by the World …
Sustainable Investments had Secretly Great Year
By Tim Nash, Corporate Knights It’s easy to get lost in the narrative that the shine has worn off sustainable investing, but that’s not what we’re seeing. Here are our top fund picks. Despite appearances, sustainable investments have quietly had a great year. Given the poor performance of green energy …
Four Trends Shaping Sustainable Finance’s Future in 2024
By Eugene Ellmen, Corporate Knights Will banks keep cheerleading fossil fuels while renewable stocks make a comeback? Eugene Ellmen shares his finance forecast. Temperature records were broken month after month in 2023, pushing governments around the globe to promise to triple their renewable-energy capacity and transition away from fossil fuels …