Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Sustainability-related financing has tripled since 2015, with a tenfold increase in flows to environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds, an eight-fold increase in sustainable debt issuance and a doubling in the value of ESG-related deals by private equity and venture capital firms, according to a report by Generation Investment Management.…

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ESG Today

MARCH 6, 2024

JBS USA’s greenwashing exploits the pocketbooks of everyday Americans and the promise of a healthy planet for future generations. James said: “As families continue to face the daily impacts of the climate crisis, they are willing to spend more of their hard-earned money on products from brands that are better for the environment.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Australia’s climate financing between 2015 and 2020 totalled A$1.4 The report also found that greenwashing had overtaken performance concerns as the pre-eminent barrier to responsible investing. The plan, which has taken A$27.4 billion and included contributions to strengthen adaptation in the country.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found. China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 3, 2021

Editor’s note : This is the second of two articles published concerning greenwashing, both historically and at present. What are the Alternatives to Greenwashing? How to Avoid Greenwashing? Groups that validate a company’s sustainability claims can highlight truly effective initiatives while leaving greenwashers behind.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Greenwashing is on the rise since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and regulators, investors, and consumers are on the lookout for companies’ potentially misleading claims about their sustainability work. Read the full story at Waste360.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. A 2015 report from the U.S. where the tighter definitions have been felt most. “We

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2024

Inconsistency and Greenwashing Across the sector, the report cites inconsistent asset disclosure, lack of transparency around fossil fuel investments, and what it calls the “obfuscation” of terms like “green assets” and “transition assets” as factors that make it “nearly impossible” to assess pension funds’ performance.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

It was a revelation reminiscent of Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions reduction scandal. In some instances, they may amount to so-called ‘greenwashing’ with consumers effectively being deluded into thinking their ‘energy efficient’ home represents a better outcome for the environment.”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In December 2015, as a response to increasingly frequent environmental disasters that disrupted ecosystems and human health — plus caused unforeseen business losses and jeopardized assets and infrastructure — the Financial Stability Board launched the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

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ESG Today

JUNE 8, 2023

The report follows several years of increasing ESG AUM in private markets, rising from around $600 billion in 2015 to $1.1 were also found to be strongly in favor of the development of a “US Taxonomy,” similar to those underway in the EU and UK, to help identify sustainable economic activities and help avoid greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

It had, however, quietly dropped a call for agriculture to curb non-CO2 emissions by at least 30%, compared to 2015, by 2040. A few weeks later, the European Commission recommended ambitious new greenhouse gas emissions cuts.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

In this paper, we describe our process for assessing ESG-labeled bonds and show that, by systematically applying this framework, investors can help set a gold standard for the market, avoid surprises from controversy and greenwashing, and potentially generate more alpha over time. Less Greenwashing Can Mean More Alpha.

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B the Change

OCTOBER 8, 2022

billion metric tons of plastic waste generated between 1950 and 2015, only about 9% of it has been recycled. So if chemical recycling is not the solution, why do so many proposed EPR policies greenwash the plastic-to-fuel processes as recycling? Greenwashing Groups? s plastic waste converted into new products in 2021.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

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ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2024

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

Launched in 2015, the fund has hit almost SEK 11 billion (US$1.1 Fellow asset managers, including Allianz Global Investors , Amundi , Goldman Sachs Asset Management , Mirova and Nuveen , have followed suit in launching green bond funds since the introduction of Storebrands 2015 vehicle. said Linnell.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

billion in climate-related blended finance between 2015 and 2022, but more is needed. The World Bank, for example, has committed to allocating 45% of its capital to climate-related transactions. MDBs provided about US$5.5

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

They also noted the due diligence aspects of a framework that must now be implemented by all federal departments and agencies in line with the targets in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. A government source pointed to a provision for regular reviews of the subsidy policy as an important opportunity to ratchet up restrictions over time.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Inclusion of coal in green taxonomy would border on state-sanctioned greenwashing, says Christina Ng, Research & Stakeholder Engagement Leader, Debt Markets, and Putra Adhiguana, Energy Technologies Research Lead, Asia, at IEEFA. Not only would national credibility be hurt, but the move might also border on state-sanctioned greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the weeds One of the most comprehensive studies of ESG fund performance was conducted by Rockefeller Asset Management and NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Researchers analysed evidence from over 1,000 studies published between 2015-20 (most were written before 2015).

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

We invite you to submit your own cases (and teaching notes) by March 31, 2023: You can view the submission requirements here , and any questions can be sent to info@wdi-publishing.com Volkswagen’s Clean Diesel Dilemma (Published 3.1.2016) On September 18, 2015, the U.S.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

From shady, non-scientific brokers looking to make a quick buck, to corporate offset pledges that amount to nothing more than greenwashing, a few bad actors in the Voluntary Carbon Market are casting a negative light on everyone. With growing interest and investment in the carbon market comes increased scrutiny, and for good reason.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These are the reported findings of Smoke and Mirrors, a new investigation from the Changing Markets Foundation and UKWIN, which says it has exposed greenwashing from Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK). viii] Center for International Environmental Law (2015) Plastic & climate: The hidden costs of a plastic planet. Available at: [link].

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When Coca Cola – the world’s biggest plastic polluter , was announced as one of the sponsors for COP27 this year – the world’s largest climate change conference, it sparked a wave of greenwashing accusations. On the face of it, the backlash was justified. Lack of progress.

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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. As responsible investors search for the most sustainable companies to back, the outcomes of these debates could not be more important for global efforts to rapidly cut emissions.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

C warming target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and there must be a “rapid acceleration of mitigation efforts after 2030” if there is any hope of limiting global temperature increases to 2°C. . According to scientists who compiled the report, the world will this century hurtle past the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Satoshi Ikeda, Chief Sustainable Finance Officer at the FSA and Co-chair of the IOSCO workstream that developed the recommendations, says: “We’ve been trying to lead industry and financial sector discussions on [climate change] since the Paris Climate Accord was signed [in 2015].

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This overtook the Marinara dam disaster as Brazil’s most catastrophic environmental event, which killed 19 people and destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues in 2015. McMurdo anticipates more such rebellions this year, which he says reflects the pervasive greenwashing evident in net zero plans.

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ESG Today

JULY 19, 2023

By Michelle T Davies, EY Global Sustainability Legal Services Leader, and Ben Taylor, EY Global Strategy and Markets Leader, Climate Change and Sustainability Services When the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) launched in 2015, its primary aim was to prevent a potential meltdown in the financial markets.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Policymakers are working toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015, to be achieved by 2030. Indeed, one of the greatest challenges in sustainable finance is how to be sure whether an operation or investment is actually sustainable or simply greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Schulich School of Business grad has been actively involved in the cleantech capital ecosystem since 2015, beginning as a founding member of the cleantech team at Export Development Canada and now as manager of cleantech venture services at MaRS. There are more jobs in sustainability and impact than there ever have been,” says Perry.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

Addressing greenwashing. According to SBTI’s 2020 progress report , firms that had set science-based targets had so far reduced combined emissions by 25% since 2015, totalling 203 million tonnes of CO2. However, when it comes to net-zero, there is little understanding of what it means for the finance industry.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

According to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the number of climate-responsive projects funded by private sources of capital in emerging markets has been decreasing by around 10% each year since 2015. These privately funded projects need to increase by 30% annually to meet the Paris Agreement’s 2030 targets.

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Just Capital

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Apple has reduced the amount of single-use plastic in its packaging by 65% since 2015 , while increasing the amount of recycled material in its products. On environmental and climate issues, it focuses intensively on the environmental impact of its products, with a goal to create products with Net-Zero carbon impact by 2030.

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Steven Mintz

MARCH 8, 2022

A 2015 Nielsen  report  found that 73% of the Millennial generation was willing to pay more for sustainable goods. However, companies might try to skip it and take on the aesthetic of a sustainable company without making any changes, a practice known as greenwashing.

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