Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights (CK) is a Toronto-based company that specializes in media, research, and financial information products. Its mission is to support an economic system that accurately reflects social, economic, and environmental costs and benefits, ensuring that market participants understand the impact of their decisions. This approach is referred to as "clean capitalism." Established in 2002, Corporate Knights operates a media and research division, which features the acclaimed magazine Corporate Knights, focused on business and society. Additionally, the research division is known for producing corporate rankings, research reports, and ratings of financial products based on sustainability performance. Among its most recognized lists are the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada and the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations. In June 2013, Corporate Knights was honored with the title of "Magazine of the Year" by Canada's National Magazine Awards Foundation.

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  • 4 days ago | corporateknights.com | Mitchell Beer

    Two major European financial institutions are setting higher expectations for climate performance, with German asset manager Union Investment dropping all its holdings in ExxonMobil and Oslo-based pension manager Norges Bank Investment Management establishing tough, new sustainability reporting requirements for the thousands of companies it backs.

  • 3 weeks ago | corporateknights.com | Eugene Ellmen

    When the Royal Bank of Canada recently disclosed it was dropping some of its most important climate pledges, it pointed the blame at Canada’s anti-greenwashing legislation. Now some investors are worried the move will set off a wave of retreat from sustainability commitments at the country‘s large banks.

  • 3 weeks ago | corporateknights.com | Natalie Alcoba

    This is not your average plot of southwestern Ontario farmland. In May, a 10-acre tract of land in Haldimand County officially turned into Canada’s largest grid-scale battery storage facility, and one of the largest in the world. Now, 278 lithium-ion battery units are drawing and storing surplus power from Ontario’s electricity grid, doubling the province’s energy storage capacity to 475 megawatts and providing a bolstered electrical backbone to surging demand.

  • 1 month ago | corporateknights.com | Jessica Scott-Reid

    This is the fourth installment of our six-part Masters of Metamorphosis series, in which we look at corporations that have reinvented themselves in order to seize opportunities in the energy transition. In 2016, New York’s Elmhurst Dairy closed its doors as the last remaining fluid-milk plant in the city. The following year, under the continued leadership of second-generation owner Henry Schwartz, the company rebranded as Elmhurst 1925, shifting its focus to plant-based milks. “Established 1925.

  • 1 month ago | corporateknights.com | Naomi Buck

    This is the second installment of our six-part Masters of Metamorphosis series, in which we look at corporations that have reinvented themselves in order to seize opportunities in the energy transition. Read Naomi Buck's opening essay: "How some companies are embracing radical change to succeed in the green economy."  In 2008, the Italian oil company ERG faced a crossroads.

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