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 1

Mailbag

Doubling down on impact • The core principles that have guided us for more than 20 years are now leading us into a new chapter

Corporate Knights • Mark Carney’s turning point

Yes, we can • As waste restrictions get stricter and ‘producer pays’ laws gain ground, companies in Europe and beyond are rushing to improve their recycling game

The carbon-capture gamble • Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada is staking its climate policy on a technology with a checkered history and a murky future

Scenario or sabotage? • In 2025, the International Energy Agency reintroduced a defunct forecasting model that predicts a sluggish energy transition. Did they do it to please the fossil fuel industry?

NEIGHBOURHOOD • How networked solutions are untangling society’s toughest challenges and (hopefully) creating a fairer world

This Montreal startup has a solution for range anxiety • By connecting drivers with private charging stations, ShareCharge and similar start-ups aim to make EVs a no-brainer

Searching for aliens with a virtual supercomputer

The rise of networked energy • Puerto Rico’s pivot to providing power through a virtual power plant is a model for cost savings and energy security

Serve it up hot • A new crop of companies is installing computer servers in unlikely places and putting waste heat to work

Stakeholders set the agenda • By empowering local ‘heritage custodians,’ the Preserving Legacies project is bringing people-power to the front lines of climate adaptation

When capital becomes a commons • A new venture financing campaign for underrepresented founders aims to spread risk more widely

A blueprint for shockproof food chains • Africa’s short, tech-first supply lines are easing volatility, paying dividends and feeding populations at scale

Unleashing radical efficiency • How Ethereum redesigned its fundamental architecture and cut its energy consumption by 99%

Spinning straw into gold • A new pulp mill that’s about to be built in Saskatchewan will use crop residues as a base for sustainable paper and packaging

SPEED IN THE SPOTLIGHT • The 2026 ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations now captures a vital new metric: MOMENTUM

A turbulent year for wind power

China’s EV market puts Western carmakers to the test • Chinese EV makers hold massive disruptive potential, but overcoming Western protectionism presents a steep hurdle

Big retail brands are rallying around recycling • The Danish jewellery-maker Pandora went all in on recycled materials, and other fashion giants are joining the recycling rush

GREEN FUNDS FLEX THEIR MARKET POWER • Despite Donald Trump’s war on renewables, investors are still attracted to the green economy – and it paid off in 2025

HOW TO SCALE UP THE GREEN ECONOMY • Influential cleantech investor and entrepreneur Jigar Shah talks reindustrialization and what it takes to spur clean growth

Finding the energy transition sweet spot (and picking up the phone to get there)

In Brazil, family farmers push back on Big Ag • Small-scale farming cooperatives are fighting for status and recognition in Brazil’s agro-economy

The secret to Denmark’s clean-energy excellence • How a tradition of social trust helped forge this small Nordic nation into a green economy powerhouse

HEROES & ZEROS

Rethinking risk in the age of climate chaos • Nature distributes risk. Clean...