Carbon Clean 200®:
Investing in a Clean Energy Future
About the Authors
TOBY HEAPS is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Corporate Knights. He spearheaded the first global ranking of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations in 2005, and in 2007 he coined the term “clean capitalism.” He sits on the board of Ashoka Canada and the University of Toronto’s Environmental Finance Advisory Committee. Toby has been published in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail. In 1998, he played centre field for the Yugoslavia national baseball team.
Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, the nation’s leading non-profit practitioner of shareholder advocacy and engagement. With a 30-year track record of success, As You Sow advances values-aligned investing and uses shareholder power to compel companies to reduce material risk on issues including climate change; toxins in the food system; ocean plastics; diversity, equity, and inclusion; racial justice; and wage equity. Previously Andrew was a documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur founding start-ups that developed innovative physiological monitoring devices and grid-scale fuel cells. He is an inventor on five patents and was recently named as one of the Purposeful-50 “true changemakers who deliver on social justice, environmental protection, diversity, inclusion, racial equality, and gender and pay equity.” He is currently on the board of the Responsible Sourcing Network. His book, The Shareholders Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable, was published by Berrett-Koehler.
ABOUT CORPORATE KNIGHTS: Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights seeks to provide information that empowers people to harness markets for a better world. The company has a media and research division, which includes the award-winning business and society magazine Corporate Knights. The research division produces corporate rankings, research reports and financial product ratings based on corporate sustainability performance. In June 2013, Corporate Knights was named Magazine of the Year by Canada’s National Magazine Awards Foundation.
ABOUT AS YOU SOW®: Founded in 1992, As You Sow promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies. Our efforts create large-scale systemic change by establishing sustainable and equitable corporate practices. As You Sow was founded on the belief that many environmental and human rights issues can be resolved by increased corporate responsibility. As investor representatives, we communicate directly with corporate executives to collaboratively develop and implement business models that reduce risk, benefit brand reputation, and protect long-term shareholder value while simultaneously bringing about positive change for the environment and human rights.
This report was made possible by the generous support of (alphabetically): Argosy Foundation, Arntz Family Foundation, Firedoll Foundation, Fred Gellert Family Foundation, Amanda Hanley Foundation, Laird Norton Family Foundation, Manaaki Foundation, The Roddenberry Foundation, and Singing Field Foundation.
Acknowledgements: The 2023 Clean200 report was made possible by the contributions of (alphabetically): Hillary Bowling, Jill Courtenay, Danielle Fugere, Ryon Harms, Wesley Henjum, Matthew Malinsky, Brenna McMillen, Andrew Montes, Kaylea Noce, John Opet, Stephanie Sandmeyer, Stefanie Spear, and Michael Yow.