Renewable pivots pay off as Ørsted and Neste top global sustainability rankings

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Nordic firms again dominated the top spots in Corporate Knights' 16th annual list of the world's most sustainable corporations, unveiled at Davos this morning

Ørsted has become the first energy company to top the Corporate Knights' Global 100 rankings of the world's most sustainable businesses, a decade after the Danish power firm began its pivot from fossil...

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