Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“The plastic crisis is too large and imminent to be solved by a single solution or mechanism,” and credits are only part of the problem, according to Verra , a nonprofit that started in 2007 by creating verification systems for carbon credits, and more recently branched into verifying plastic credits. But] this is not greenwashing at all.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. Addressing the UN General Assembly in 2022, Secretary-General António Guterres took aim at the “massive PR machine raking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny.”

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Sustainability Update

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Report on every environmental initiative and face allegations of greenwashing? Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Yet, it is difficult to let go of the fear of being called a dreaded greenwasher.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Schleimer’s own awakening came when she entered academia to teach innovation strategy and realized, even in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007/2008, that textbooks on the subject were still promoting the “red ocean thinking” of cutthroat competition, compromised value and low cost. Schleimer opted to teach without textbooks.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons. First, the number of polls has continued to dwindle. That feels like an honest appraisal, more so than most survey results by purportedly green-shopping consumers.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

Neste began tinkering with renewable diesel fuel in 2007 and, three years later, launched the world’s biggest renewable diesel plant, in Singapore. In May 2022, Carlos Calvo Ambel, a senior director of the Transport & Environment environmental campaign group, called the band Coldplay “useful idiots for greenwashing” Neste’s image.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

Consumers are now rightly attuned to potential greenwashing; in response, brands are becoming too precautionary and restrictive in their approach to sustainability communications. Brand Finance’s Strategy & Sustainability Director, Robert Haigh , commented, “Brands have to strike a fine balance when communicating about sustainability.

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