Corporate Knights

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Corporate Knights

Letters

Kermit was wrong • Humans are good at solving civilizational challenges, when the stakes are clear and the alternatives are good

Corporate Knights • The U.K. Green Party’s big moment

Can ‘green steel’ get real?

A gold rush for fusion energy

How to square the blue economy

Canada’s stealth climate play

Boardrooms vs. the sixth extinction

Sand batteries are scaling up in Europe

Out on a limb • Environmental groups allege that a popular forest certification system built by industry amounts to greenwashing

WELCOME TO OVERSHOOT • The world was supposed to keep warming below 1.5°C. That didn’t happen. What we do next is TBD.

In the shadow of Alberta’s ghost wells • As Alberta decides what to do with its aging oil and gas infrastructure, local communities may be shouldering steep risks to their health

The green cold war • In a showdown of geopolitical brinksmanship, the planet’s ecological future is at stake

RUPTURE • HOW THE GREEN ECONOMY IS RIPPING OPEN THE SEAMS OF A WORLD ORDER UNDER STRAIN

INDIA’S GREEN SHORT CUT • Electric bikes and three-wheelers have given the world’s fastest-growing economy a low-carbon head start

CHINA’S ARCTIC SHIPPING AMBITIONS ARE ENABLING A DANGEROUS OIL CORRIDOR • Chinese-linked shipping and investment are helping turn a key northern lane into a lifeline for sanctioned Russian oil

A SOLAR LIFELINE FOR CUBA • As U.S. sanctions have left much of the island in darkness, Cuba turns to solar – though panels remain out of reach for most

EUROPE’S CLIMATE ROLL BACK RISK SUNDER CUTTING IT SOWN CHAMPIONS • As Europe pares back green regulations in the name of competitiveness, the costs of uncertainty are rising

IS THERE A SIDE DOOR FOR CLIMATE DIPLOMACY? • States, cities and regions are building a parallel system for global climate action

CANADA PLAYS ITS CRITICAL-MINERALS HAND • With $72.4 billion on the table, Canada’s critical-minerals push must thread the needle between the United States and China

TRUMP’S WIND FALL FOR CANADA • U.S. hostility for renewables is making Canada more attractive for investment, but can Ottawa and the provinces work together?

A WAVE OF GREEN BOND SISRES HAPING CLIMATE FINANCE IN AFRICA • Nigeria is at the head of a continent-wide push to lure investors to the climate funding gap through sovereign green bonds

CREATING STABILITY IN THE AGE OF VOLATILITY • The climate isn’t changing, says tech innovator and investor Tom Chi: it’s destabilizing, rapidly. We talked to him about how capital can catch up.

Tom Chi is redesigning climate capital

The U.K.’s bold plan to crowdfund clean energy • The U.K. government has a £1-billion strategy to leverage crowdfunding for hundreds of community energy projects. Will it work?

Jamaica’s tourism sector confronts a warming world • For the Caribbean tourist economy, sustainability is no longer optional. But building resilience means confronting its extractive tendencies.

A breakthrough geothermal project in Bavaria • Did fracking tech just unleash geothermal power generation at a whole new level?

ZEROS & HEROES

When we choose war, we cannibalize the solution • In a world of finite critical minerals, the war economy and the energy transition are in competition

Bites Behind the GREEN CURTAIN