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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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Is the Competition Bureau's probe into RBC's climate claims a warning to other banks?

Corporate Knights

But Ecojustice lawyer Matt Hulse said Canada’s current regulatory system still requires citizens to play “whack-a-mole” against the behaviour of individual banks, rather than taking a systemic approach to greenwashing and fossil fuel finance. This is disingenuous greenwashing at best, and unlawful at worst.

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Major investor alliance working to clean up greenwash lurking in ESG

Corporate Knights

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. Mary Robinson, the Canadian Responsible Investment Association Accusations of greenwashing grew along with this expansion.

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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.". Climate Strategy.

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An Opportunity for Differentiation?

Chris Hall

The government committed to net zero in the Climate Change Act 2008 and is under a legal obligation to deliver on the carbon reduction targets therein. billion) of investment into the transition each year into the 2030s (as estimated by the Climate Change Committee). Why do we need a UK Green Taxonomy?

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Net Zero Claims in UK Advertising and the Risk of Greenwashing

Chris Hall

Matthew Shankland, Head of Sidley Austin’s London-based Disputes Resolution Practice, outlines how i nvestor s can mitigate against the increased risk of greenwashing-related issues in company advertising. Under English law, there is no specific cause of action for, or law governing, greenwashing.