Corporate Knights

Providing information empowering markets to foster a better world. Corporate Knights produces editorial at the intersection of business and society, with news and analysis about sustainability and corporate sustainability rankings

Corporate Knights • Volume 25 Issue 4

Letters

Watch the horizon • Climate change makes futurists of us all. Pay attention to the ones looking farther.

Corporate Knights • Will Canada’s investment blitz deliver for the sustainable economy?

The long game • As layoffs and rising costs push blockbuster studios toward safer bets, independent developers are experimenting with new ways to make climate action part of play. Could those ideas help revitalize AAA gaming?

COUNTER INTELLIGENCE • Sustainable investors piled into Big Tech before the AI boom. Were they wrong to trust it?

Dawn of the organoids • A cohort of biotech companies are combining human tissue and artificial intelligence to reduce animal testing in drug development. Where will it lead?

Graduate impact distinguishes top sustainable MBA programs • The schools in our 2026 Better World ranking know that sustainability is no passing trend

Reading the signs • The paradox of fossil-fuel expansion in the age of climate disruption

The future of fossil fuels • FOSSIL FUELS ARE BAD FOR THE PLANET, BUT ARE MAJOR OIL AND GAS PROJECTS STILL GOOD LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS?

Meet the solution generation • We have one thing to say about this bold batch of tomorrow-shapers, consciousness-raisers and sustainability wizards: let them cook

A partnership that delivers impact • How the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Government of Canada and communities are using the PACE financing model to scale energy efficiency and resilience.

SHOULD AI SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PROTEST? • Prominent activist Micah Bornfree wants protest movements to harness the power of artificial intelligence

Can an electric concept car help reinvent Canada’s auto industry? • Project Arrow has proven Canadian suppliers can produce a zero-emission vehicle from scratch, but building a car might be the easy part

Precision agriculture is transforming the lives of farmers and pastoralists in Africa • From pest infestations to droughts worsened by climate change, the challenges faced by African agriculturists are manifold, but new technologies are offering real solutions

In Europe, restoring landscapes after wildfires is a growing business • Post-wildfire restoration is essential to preventing future fires, advocates say, and corporations are paying for it

HEROES & ZEROS

The end of climate innocence • Canada will miss its 2030 goal by decades. That’s a reason to speed up, not give up.

THE COMEBACK PACK • Six cleantech hopefuls that fell into the “trough of disillusionment” but are now entering their second act