Corporate Knights

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Corporate Knights • Volume 24 Issue 4

Mailbag

Corporate Knights • Brazil’s balancing act

Breaking the strata-sphere • As condo prices fall back to earth, affordable housing has an opening to rise again. Here’s how we can seize the opportunity.

Requiem for a methane hunter • MethaneSAT’s early demise hit the climate movement hard. What went wrong?

A ray of light for brownfields • Contaminated land could be the key to a win-win for communities and climate, but many obstacles still need to be cleared

THE ABUNDANCE DILEMMA • Advocates for the abundance agenda say we can have the future we want if we just get out of the way. Critics say they’re succumbing to a delusion of infinite growth that we can no longer afford.

HOW THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA COULD UNSHACKLE THE GREEN ECONOMY • Advocates say that the solutions we need are ready to go, if we can only remove the brakes

WHY THE DEGROWTH MOVEMENT THINKS IT CAN DO ABUNDANCE BETTER • Degrowth isn’t regression, advocates say, but reallocation of economies for greater benefit to more people

Maximizing impact begins before graduation • The 2025 Corporate Knights ranking of the top 40 MBAs for sustainability shows that many visionary programs are helping their grads make an impact in very different economic contexts

The big 10 • Our 2025 ranking of the top 10 large MBA schools covers programs with more than 80 graduates per year.

30 UNDER 30 CREATIVE DEFIANCE • Our annual 30 Under 30 list of Canada’s leaders in sustainability never ceases to amaze or inspire. As the climate crisis tightens its grip, we turn to these young, bright minds full of grit and ingenuity to light the path to a more resilient future.

HOW TO BE A LITTLE BIT BRAVE • U.K. climate justice activist Mikaela Loach on hope, grief and harnessing the power of community

Mikaela Loach is building a more expansive climate movement

Ethiopia’s ecological statecraft • How a bid to plant 50 billion trees by next year has captured the imagination of an entire country

Pakistan’s great flashforward • Spurred on by cheap Chinese tech, a photovoltaic boom in the fifth-mostpopulous country on the planet offers big lessons on the rapid decentralization of power supply

China’s cure for crop risk • As climate change makes it harder to feed its 1.4 billion people, China turns to high-tech solutions

France’s fast fashion fix • A new law to directly sanction ultra-fast-fashion companies could make more room for alternative models, but consumers also have to make different choices

HEROES & ZEROS

Don’t bring a fighter jet to a wildfire • Canada should include climate solutions in its defence spending

Wild Fires • Wildfires are burning twice as much forest cover as they did two decades ago. Around the world, governments are responding.