Corporate Knights

JANUARY 13, 2025

The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. According to a report by the London-based NGO Global Witness, 503 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2021. As former U.S.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

A week before COP26 in Glasgow, the initiative unveiled the world’s first science-based accreditation of companies’ net-zero targets with the launch of the Corporate Net Zero Standard. Addressing greenwashing. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Suga’s pledge was followed up at COP26 last November when current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised US$10 billion over the next five years to support Asia’s migration from fossil-fuel-fired to zero-emission thermal power, such as ammonia and hydrogen.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Countries signed up to the Paris Agreement of 2015 set out to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. At the same time, the credibility of their climate strategies has been brought into question both by greenwashing scandals and recent analyses of the Paris-alignment of fund offerings. .

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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. It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. They claim, ‘We’re good corporate actors.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. Since COP26, some of those jurisdictions (the SEC, EFRAG and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation) have delivered pioneering legislative and standard-setting efforts.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

After the signature of the Paris Agreement in 2015, science has become widely accepted. Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. Why should a company be net-zero? Net-Zero timeline by SBTi.

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