Public Policy
Corporate Knights also undertakes initiatives to influence public policy, including a 2006 $100 billion carbon pricing plan for Canada to reach its Kyoto target, convening the first Energy Ministers' meeting on building a transcanadian grid for transporting green electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed, and the Option 13 initiative to make trade implications a central consideration of the Copenhagen meeting in November–December 2009.
In 2007 CK helped put together a working group to explore a Green Power Corridor summit.
Option13 was an 2008 initiative intended to promote three choices for 2013 in the face of climate change. Ralph Nader and CK’s Toby Heaps published an article about it in the Wall Street Journal.
In 2010 CK supported Bill C-300 and testimony was given by Toby Heaps to support the business case for ethical mining.
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