Corporate Knights is a media and research company based in Toronto, Canada, focused on advancing a sustainable economy.
Corporate Knights is published quarterly and maintains an editorial focus on climate change, responsible investing, and the ideas, actions and innovations that shape a sustainable economy.
In 2019, following the publication of "The high cost of low corporate taxes" by Marco Chown Oved, Toby Heaps, and Michael Yow, Corporate Knights was awarded the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Canada Silver Award for Investigative Reporting.
Corporate Knights rankings are regularly cited in leading business publications, including Fast Company, The Financial Times, and Forbes.
The council's 10 members include Sun Life Financial, Vancity, Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions Canada and Teck Resources.
To rank cities, Corporate Knights leveraged 12 key indicators[2] of urban sustainability related to climate change, air quality, land use, transportation, water, waste, policy, and resilience.
The Future 50 is a list of the fastest growing private and publicly traded Canadian companies whose business activities align with the transition to a global clean economy.
Speaking to the tradition of environmental protection in the White House, Corporate Knights named Theodore Roosevelt as the greenest president in U.S. history, followed by Richard Nixon.
Corporate Knights frequently hosts virtual events, such as "Fireside Stories for the Climate" with David Suzuki and Margaret Atwood.
In 2006, Corporate Knights put forth a $100 billion carbon pricing plan for Canada to reach its Kyoto target,[3] convening the first Energy Ministers' meeting on building a trans-canadian grid for transporting green electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed,[4] In 2007, Corporate Knights helped put together a working group to explore a Green Power Corridor transmission grid to enable the decarbonization of Canada's electricity supply.
Ralph Nader and Corporate Knights' Toby Heaps published an article about it in The Wall Street Journal.