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8 LESSONS from the EU P.18 How to Go Net Zero in a Hurry TOP 50 GREEN BIZ MOVES P.26 Which Companies Helped Fix the Planet? 8 LESSONS FROM THE EU p.18 TOP 50 GREEN BIZ MOVES p.26 CRUELTY IN YOUR PENSION p.60 How to go net zero in a hurry Which companies helped fix the planet? Are your investments cruelty-free? SPRING 2020 VOL. 19 ISSUE 2• $6.95 A paid insert to The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post Knights Corporate Letters VOLUME 19 ISSUE 2 industry because of its commitment to increasing CEO and Editor-in-Chief: Toby A.A. Heaps its use of sustainable ingredients, as well as being EDITORIAL top quintile in gender leadership diversity. The Managing Editor: Adria Vasil Senior Editor: Rick Spence packaged-goods maker could certainly do better, Contributing Editors: Melissa Shin, Rachel Pulfer, but it’s committed to halving the waste associ- Jeremy Runnalls ated with the disposal of products by 2020. Let’s Copy Editors: Lesley Fraser, Jordan MacInnis Art Director: Jack Dylan hope it delivers. ADVERTISING Associate Publisher: Erin Gardhouse EV ARTICLE OFF THE DEEP END RESEARCH I started reading your article on EV battery Clean Revenue & Research Manager: Wendy Shen-Juarez “cleanliness.” I got to the discussion on Sr. Sustainability Research Analyst: Moshmi Desai “destructive” deep-sea mining, which you Research Analyst: Laura Väyrynen tossed out in a single sentence, which is when I Website: theturnlab tossed the magazine. Questions: Is non-nascent Distribution: Washington Post, Globe and Mail, shallow-sea mining (e.g. diamonds) okay in Kable Distribution Services, Inc. your opinion? What is the comparison of the Printer: TC Transcontinental Printing cleanliness of shallow-sea mining to deep-sea Published by Corporate Knights Inc. mining? Are Fiji and Greenpeace the world © 2020 Corporate Knights Inc. All rights reserved. Any reproduction or duplication without prior writ- TICKED OFF BY TECK experts on the cleanliness of all types of “nascent” ten consent of the publisher is strictly prohibited. deep-sea mining? How do the various proposed I do not understand why a company (Teck types of deep-sea mining compare ecologically CORPORATE KNIGHTS INC. President/CEO: Toby A.A. Heaps Resources) that is a prime promoter of oil sands with existing terrestrial mining? How does the development can get into your top 100 global construction of offshore wind farms (e.g. subsea ranking. Their main source of revenue is coal, cable burial) compare with deep-sea mining? Printed in Canada/Imprimé au Canada admittedly steel-making coal not thermal, but How does port construction and harbour GST Number: 861416717RT0001 that and developing the oil sands? dredging compare? ISSN Number: 1703-2016 Publication Mail Agreement #40725542 –Michael Carter, Toronto –Eric Jackson, Vancouver ADVERTISING INQUIRIES CK: Teck is a mining company that is strad- CK: The topic certainly deserves greater in- Tel. 416-203-4674 [email protected] dling the energy transition. It recently shelved its depth exploration. mammoth Frontier oil sands project, which had Apple iPad and iPhone users can download our become environmental and economic kryp- free app via iTunes; Kindle users via Amazon.com. SUBSIDIZE THIS Individual issues are US$4.99 to download. Annual tonite. 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From time to time, we clean economy minerals (like copper), which are may use your customer information to correspond with you regarding your subscription or to inform required to decarbonize the economy. CK: Great idea. According to the International you of special offers and services. Institute for Sustainable Development, federal The information contained herein has been compiled fossil-fuel subsidies in Canada reached at least from sources believed to be accurate and reliable, INCREDIBLY SHRINKING PACKAGING $600 million in 2019, but this figure does not but its accuracy is not guaranteed. Corporate include subsidies for which publicly available Knights principals, staff and affiliates may from time to time have a position in investments I have used Dove underarm deodorant for a data was lacking, such as tax-related subsidies or referred to in this magazine. long time, and over the past couple of years I potential subsidies related to the Trans Mountain have watched the actual content shrink from Pipeline and expansion. The real number is likely Corporate Knights is proudly printed on 100% recycled biogas-powered Rolland cover stock and the original 100 grams to 76 grams – and the in the billions, money that would go a long way 100% carbon neutral FSC-certified Catalyst paper package size has stayed the same: a shocking to building out electric charging infrastructure or inside. waste of resources serving only to squeeze enabling ride-share services to electrify. more profit. So it was quite a shock to see Unilever move up the list to 46th place. To my unsophisticated mind, they should not even be We welcome readers to submit letters to on the list. [email protected] –Dave Ferguson or by mail to our office at: Information Corporate Knights Inc. empowering CK: Unilever (owner of Seventh Generation and 147 Spadina Ave., Suite 207 markets to foster Ben & Jerry’s) is considered among the best-in- Toronto, ON K a better world. M5V 2L7, Canada sector in the personal-care and cleaning-product 2 • Corporate Knights • Spring 2020 Cover by Istoica and Jack Dylan SPRING 2020 Table of Contents Applying a climate lens to our economic recovery package could get people back to work while building a more resilient Canada for the long term. p42 Editor’s Note p5 FEATURES Coronavirus connects us all and makes us all … vulnerable. Now if governments could just respond to the urgency of climate science as swiftly as they have to COVID-19. How to afford affordable green housing p14 News Briefs p7 Sustainably designed affordable housing projects have become increasingly Oil companies pull the plug on mega- critical in meeting cities’ climate and social inclusion goals. projects, pesticide propaganda exposed, and mandating corporate morality. Global game-changer: Europe’s Green Deal has lessons for Canada p18 Is your pension banking on animal cruelty? p60 If Canada is serious about reaching net zero by 2050, it needs to learn Most pension funds are clued out on whether everything it can from the EU’s incoming Green Deal. the companies they’re invested in account for animal welfare. Does your bank offer ethical investments? p22 5 green building trends for 2020 p62 Corporate Knights anonymously visited branches of the Big Five banks and asked From heating offices with sewage energy to about responsible investing. Which delivered? fast-tracking timber buildings. 50 years and 50 green company actions that helped heal Earth p26 On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we look at which corporate actions have had the biggest impact on improving the state of affairs on our planet. How a green jolt could spur our economy and save the planet p42 As we start to move from crisis to recovery post-pandemic,Canada’s thought leaders weigh in on opportunities to build back stronger and greener. Heroes & Zeros p64 Marlboro maker says it’s cleaning the air, while Siemens controversy kicks up Mintzberg Declaration of Our Interdependence p58 firestorm. A bottom-up “call to action, not to arms” promotes collaboration for the greater good of society. Knight Bites p66 Cashing in on Canada’s clean economy. Clean Capitalism: An economic system in which prices incorporate social, economic and ecological benefits and costs, and people know the full impacts of their marketplace actions. Cover and above illustration by Pete Ryan; right illustration by Joren Cull Spring 2020 • Corporate Knights • 3 Advertisement 4 • Corporate Knights • Spring 2020 Editor’s Note falling into line. The Financial Times, flagship paper of the Davos class, signed off on the deal with an unsigned editorial this April: “Radical reforms – reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades – will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investments rather than liabilities and look for ways to make labour markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda, the privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies until recently considered eccentric, such as basic income and wealth taxes, will have to be in the mix.” People must be at the front of the line come stimulus time. Fortunately, thanks in part to the clean in- novation wave that Sir Parker’s ripples helped to generate, this could work out just fine for our climate. If the objective of the economic recovery is to get as many people back to work as fast as Our best shot at building back possible and lay the foundations for a strong economy capable of digging us out of a debt better after the COVID crisis hole, there may be no more effective strategy By ToBy a.a. Heaps than applying a climate lens. Putting a climate lens on economic stimu- lus sounds like a constraint or dilution of the primary mission.
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