Sustainability Update

JANUARY 21, 2025

Rather, the goals are aligned with the EUs climate and environmental goals to: Create a consistent definition of sustainability regarding economic activities Support companies in their effort to plan and finance their green transition Protect against greenwashing Accelerate financing of projects that are sustainable Want to keep reading?

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Andreas Rache

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

With heightened attention towards the climate crisis and scandals highlighting the industry’s social shortcomings (Rana Plaza, 2013), more and more ‘native’ sustainable fashion brands have emerged. The fashion industry has repeatedly come under fire for its negative effects on the environment.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

Were the sustainability measures and corporate social responsibility offices at VW simply engaged in greenwashing? Since large-scale production of Tesla vehicles only started in 2013, most of these vehicles are still on the road. In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA?

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Climate Change Development 98

Eco Coach

MARCH 10, 2020

This is why this 2013 TED talk by Steve Howard, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Ikea, is so refreshing. Many sustainability and green champions and professionals have felt uncomfortable at some point selling sustainability. Below each take-away are a couple of questions to consider in applying these lessons to your organization: 1.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said. C pathway.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, the total issuance of the European securitisation market was 213 billion – a figure that has not budged much since 2013, as the graph below highlights. The GFC continues to cast a shadow. As financial products can become increasingly sophisticated, regulators need the tools to identify and manage emerging risks.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Concerns over greenwashing have accelerated efforts by regulators and standard setters to develop and introduce more robust forms of disclosure and measurement to the burgeoning ESG investing market, he suggests.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Notice that compliance and voluntary carbon markets have interlinked movements, as seen in the 2013 drop in both voluntary and compliance credits. This reputation is an immediate concern for offset credit buyers that don’t want customers, investors, or employees to be associate their brand with greenwashing.

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Steven Mintz

JUNE 5, 2024

Moderator: Joan Lee, Fairfield University The Effect of Public Criticism on Corporate Greenwashing Leting Liu, University of Toronto – Rotman, Ontario, Canada (Presenter) Discussant: W. In 2013, after years of negotiation, the PCAOB entered into an enforcement cooperation agreement with China. ESG – Room 1 Behavioral Ethics – 1.5

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Yeah, and I think that’s another thing like consumers and individuals also feel so powerless but the thing is, is like these companies are so scared, especially of young people like even the term greenwashing, this year is the first time I’ve ever even heard companies be like, oh, we don’t want to be accused of that.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

for example, assets defined as “sustainable” tripled between 2013 and 2019, from US$6.6 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. In the U.S., trillion to US$17.1

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Net-zero campaigns also spur well-intentioned, yet harmful, investments in greenwashed technologies , such as carbon capture tech, which are fossil-fuel and energy intensive and emit more carbon than they take away , undermining the central premise of net-zero.

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Jon Hale

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I don’t use the term “greenwashing” very often, because it often comes down to perceptions, but in this case, these firms’ sponsorships of SFOF certainly leaves doubt in my mind about their commitment to sustainable investing. But at least it said something and did the right thing.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

To cite two examples, Russia led efforts to derail climate talks in Bonn in 2013 and more recently they conspired to undermine a positive outcome at COP24 in 2018. Russia’s failure to act at home is consistent with its resistance to global climate efforts. Putin has been silencing critics including environmental activists for years.

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