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How Big Oil promotes climate change misinformation in Canadian schools

Corporate Knights

Oil and gas companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report. in 2020 called Climate Education Reform BC. Then came the threats.

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Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders

GreenBiz

This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. Ultimately, corporate leadership has to change because "less worse" is not an option anymore, Polman said.

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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. sustainable investments quadrupled from US$4 trillion in 2014 to US$17 trillion in 2020. In the U.S.,

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Member States Urged to Enforce 2024 Deadline for CSRD

Chris Hall

Susanna Arus, EU Public Affairs Manager at Frank Bold , said the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) – which updates the 2014 Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and comes into force on 1 January 2024 – could create a ‘two-speed Europe’. Greenwashing is over.

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Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 4, Episode 2 - Nitty Gritty on Net-Zero

3BL Media

So what that means is that even by addressing the smaller seeming sector, which is the heating and cooling sector, we have an outsized influence in how much we can mitigate climate change. The summer of 2014, ten years ago this summer, I was with a group of our company leaders and we were in a room to do a bit of a scenario assessment.

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

More than you’d expect for someone who spends his time working on the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change in his native Kenya. And certainly more than you’d expect for someone who had to leave his home in Trans-Nzoia County, on Kenya’s western border, because of flooding caused by the climate emergency.