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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

In 2017, Shell sponsored polar explorer Robert Swan and his son on an expedition to the South Pole to promote biofuel. Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. She went on to testify before a 2022 U.S.

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JETPs Stuck at Departure Gate

Chris Hall

Each of the four JETPs in development are experiencing different growing pains. “Understandably, being the first movers in the market, there is nervousness and caution amongst [JETP] stakeholders to get it right. “Investors face heightened concerns on the credibility of these transactions and potential greenwashing criticisms,” she says.

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UK Must Converge with ISSB to Avoid “Over-lapping” Rules

Chris Hall

The TCFD’s recommendations were published in June 2017 and have since gained widespread recognition and adoption by companies, investors, and governments globally.