Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. Such bioplastics have effectively been ‘greenwashed’, he said, and mis-sold to environmentally responsible consumers and companies.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The ESG story begins with a meeting convened by the UN Global Compact program in 2004. ESG ratings are questioned, accusations of greenwashing are proliferating, and debate about the purpose and integrity of ESG investing is ongoing. Whoever Cares – Wins.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. Wall of greenwash? In some communities, the people turned to cultivating trees placed strategically within fields, using root stock on already-cleared land.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 6, 2022

Hoops knows what he’s talking about, as his predecessor was the first major CEO to be fired for greenwashing after DWS’s Frankfurt offices were raided by 50 German police and financial regulators this June in relation to an investigation into DWS’s potentially misleading claims about the ESG-friendliness of their investments.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

trillion, prompting industry insiders to express doubt about how such a huge run-up could happen without greenwashing. This was triggered in part by stiff anti-greenwashing proposals from the U.S. Regulators will push back against greenwashing. In the U.S., trillion to US$17.1 Financial regulators in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 29, 2025

We started lobbying Washington for climate action in 2004, Schendler says. The resorts parent Aspen Skiing Company is outspoken against actions it considers to be greenwashing, such as carbon offsets, and it produces a detailed annual sustainability report that it hopes will inspire others in the ski industry and the larger corporate world.

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