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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

Between 2008 and 2016, the five biggest oil companies (ExxonMobil, BP-Amoco, Chevron-Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips) collectively spent an average of US$217 million on advertising annually, a sixfold increase from two decades earlier, according to a 2019 paper in the journal Climatic Change.

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The music industry changes its tune on climate change

Corporate Knights

Since 2019, that slogan has been a rallying cry for the music industry. Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s “No Music on a Dead Planet.”. It’s been amplified by major artists like Billie Eilish, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Thom Yorke of Radiohead, who’ve worn or designed shirts with those apocalyptic words.

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UK to “Consult” on Requirement for Companies to Disclose Climate Transition Plans

ESG Today

The original Green Finance Strategy was launched in 2019, aimed at establishing the UK as a center for international green finance, and aligning the financial sector and capital flows with the delivery of global and domestic climate and environmental objectives.

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B Lab Forms New Partnerships to Help Scale Credible Business Transitions to Net Zero

B the Change

including many following the recent COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?—?has We cannot afford slow movers, fake movers, or any form of greenwashing.” has also increased leverage for companies’ climate transition plans. So h ow can B Lab play its role in this race against time?

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up. Besides, a third of the respondents consider offsetting as pure greenwashing. Offsetting is often hypocrisy, and it is swirling around at #COP26.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends. Figure 3: Calculated impacts of company A for the fiscal year 2019 (own operations and upstream supply chain). 2022 Sustainability Summary. Source VBA.

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Filling Canada’s Policy Void

Chris Hall

Since 2019, every jurisdiction in Canada has imposed a price on carbon pollution. C, clarifying fiduciary duty, and strengthening advertising rules to deter greenwashing. Trudeau said: “In the last six years, Canada has proven to the world that you can take meaningful climate action while building a strong, growing economy.”.