Companies can't just walk away from their polluting assets - they must remedy their destruction

Mark Carney's Brookfield Asset Management is serving as both an example of what companies must avoid and a lesson on how to be better, argues Veronica Oakeshott from Global Witness. There was a time, not too long ago, when international companies could cause environmental damage all over the world with very little scrutiny. Thankfully an acceleration in awareness and understanding of the climate crisis has shifted this dynamic but in doing so companies are confronted with a new reality. Having contributed to mass-scale deforestation, or other destructive practices, they must ensure they ...