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Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29?

Corporate Knights

The climate plans of both companies, like those of the majority of the fossil fuel industry, are incompatible with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement between nations to keep global heating “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 The post Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29? Read the original story here.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

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. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing. As former U.S. Shes changed her mind.

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Canada’s LNG industry says it will reduce Asian emissions. Prove it.

Corporate Knights

They argue that this country could actually take credit for some of those Asian GHG reductions under Article 6 of the 2015 Paris climate treaty, which allows for bilateral emissions trading. Essentially, Article 6 has become a green fig leaf to greenwash LNG exports. Expanded LNG exports from B.C.

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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

The concept of net zero goes back nearly a decade, in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 climate conference in Paris. According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. Is net zero greenwash? Some think so.

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Canada’s biggest pension plan is fuelling worst rainy-day future ever

Corporate Knights

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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On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action

GreenBiz

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. Mon, 12/14/2020 - 00:05. But that is not the only pivotal milestone we should commemorate this month.

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What investors and companies should know about greenwashing

Environmental News Bits

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.