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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking? Some boards approve, some feel comfortable doing so and are hoping for the best; others are afraid to be called out on greenwashing but approve them anyway, because "everyone else" are setting goals. Helle Bank Jorgensen. Thu, 07/15/2021 - 00:01. Because it does. Pull Quote.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing. The behemoth task of changing UN policy Figueress predecessor, Yvo de Boer, who helmed the UNFCCC from 2006 through 2010, sees it differently.

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A look at the secret world where our waste ends up

Corporate Knights

The amount of waste produced by the average American — on average, the world’s most wasteful consumer — tripled between 1960 and 2010. Changing consumer behavior will require a crackdown on greenwashing, Franklin-Wallis said. The waste industry is absolutely replete with greenwashing,” Franklin-Wallis said.

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Green to the core? Top business schools are drilling sustainability into their core curricula

Corporate Knights

While the ranking, first conducted in 2010 , has historically considered the diversity of faculty and the proportion of its research devoted to sustainability issues, this year’s methodology goes back to basics, asking a simple question: what is being taught?

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Greenwashing, From the Eighties till Today (Part 1)

Sense and Sustainability

Editor’s note : This is the first of two articles published concerning greenwashing, both historically and at present. What is Greenwashing and How does It Work? Products are greenwashed through the process of renaming, rebranding or repacking. Large scale greenwashing companies have made headlines over the years.

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How Tracking GHG Emissions Accelerates Value and Strengthens Companies

3BL Media

SUMMARY: James Mandel, Blackstone’s Chief Sustainability Officer, and Jake Shirmer, a Principal in Portfolio Operations, explain why tracking greenhouse gas emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. Rightly understood, then, tracking GHG emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. link] $BX #GHG.

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A Level Playing Field for Green Claims

Chris Hall

Dr Torsten Schwarze, Partner at Morgan Lewis, explains how two EU directives will shape Europe’s legal framework to restrict greenwashing. In this article, we summarise the content of both and explain how they are intended to interact in the EU’s fight against greenwashing.