Corporate Knights

MAY 31, 2023

Earlier this month, Environmental Defence launched its “Canada’s climate villains” campaign , using graphic-novelesque illustrations and monikers like “Toxic Traitor” and “Ruthless Greenwasher.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. It also has pushed us to a new moment of corporate leadership.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

DESCRIPTION: DUBLIN, June 22, 2022 /3BL Media/ - The first in-person The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit since 2019 opened on the morning of 21st June at the Convention Centre Dublin. When our rhetoric gets ahead of our action, that is greenwashing”, he said. Highlights from the opening day of the 2022 Global Summit.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.". Sponsored Article.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In August 2019, the sprawling Kpone landfill, 25 miles from the center of Accra, Ghana, burst into flames. Changing consumer behavior will require a crackdown on greenwashing, Franklin-Wallis said. The waste industry is absolutely replete with greenwashing,” Franklin-Wallis said.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 5, 2021

According to the 2019 Accenture Chemicals Global Consumer Sustainability Survey, more than… Read more → Food, home goods and clothing companies have all jumped on the sustainable bandwagon, and it’s not just because of their undying devotion to the environment.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 12, 2022

Yet the footprint of flying hasn’t slowed global demand for ecotourism , which was estimated to generate about US$180 billion in 2019, with revenue expected to almost double by the end of the decade. It was shut down in 2019 for a “facelift,” per The Hollywood Reporter , so it could be rebranded as a 1 Hotel.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The report also found that greenwashing had overtaken performance concerns as the pre-eminent barrier to responsible investing. Regulators’ focus on greenwashing has also contributed to heightened transparency, as investors seek to back up their sustainability claims.”

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2022

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued new guidance to help funds avoid ‘greenwashing’ and enhance disclosures when offering or promoting sustainability-related products. In our region alone, sustainability-labelled investments have more than doubled between 2019 and 2021.”

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

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.”. As of 2019, the USGBC had issued 100,000 LEED building certifications for commercial projects. Green Building Council (USGBC).

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Last year on the eve of Climate Week 2019, employees from big tech companies planned a walkout , demanding their employers take climate seriously across operations. The result: Amazon’s Climate Pledge ( announced during Climate Week 2019) and the company’s founder Jeff Bezos, a.k.a.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Since 2019, that slogan has been a rallying cry for the music industry. After being identified as a band with one of the biggest carbon footprints, the members of Coldplay paused touring in 2019 until they could work out how their tour “can not only be sustainable [but] how can it be actively beneficial.” “No Music on a Dead Planet.”.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Solar PV Manufacturing Capacity Green Data Center Solutions Provider Submer Raises $55.5

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. But offsetting is seen as transitional — and controversial: Some critics view it as greenwash. The industry has responded or at least has been pushed to do better. In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Greenwashing poses a “real and present danger” to industry efforts to advance sustainability considerations in their investment processes. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is planning to impose new supervisory expectations on ESG funds to help mitigate the risk of greenwashing. Liquidity risk.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

Alexander True, Business Partner at Sarasin, offers seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. With this in mind, we have put together a shortlist of seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. The post Seven Ways to Spot Greenwashing appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Shareholder claims over ‘greenwashing’ are likely to grow in the UK as companies face increasing pressure from regulators and investors to publish ESG disclosures in their market-facing information. Large companies have been required to report on their UK energy use and carbon emissions since 2019.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The new sustainability strategy follows the launch in 2019 of BNPP AM’s first GSS, focused on the integration of ESG factors into its investment processes and boosting its engagement and stewardship approach on ESG issues. Regulations including the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation have shaped sustainability-related investing.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

Air France-KLM’s goal is to see 10% of its fuel made from SAF by 2030 as part of its drive to cut carbon dioxide emissions per passenger per kilometre flown by 30% by 2030 over 2019’s level. A lot of the time, it has been in the news for reasons that make management cringe. Most of Neste’s palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In its latest status report, the TCFD notes that investor support for its recommendations grew by 85 percent from 2018 to 2019. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. Investors are responding positively to this streamlining of environmental-financial disclosure.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing. The proposed guidance is designed to help firms better understand the FCA’s expectations under the anti-greenwashing rule and other associated requirements.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

Many of Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf Foods’ products have carried a “carbon zero” label since 2019, when it declared itself to be the “world’s first major carbon neutral food company.” General Mills makes a regenerative-beef protein bar that it claims offsets 80% of its greenhouse gas emissions through regenerating soil practices.”

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

So let’s set the record straight: these shareholder resolutions call for banks to adopt responsible guardrails for transition financing, and to insure against both greenwashing and over-exposure to risky lending practices.

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3BL Media

MAY 13, 2022

SUMMARY: James Mandel, Blackstone’s Chief Sustainability Officer, and Jake Shirmer, a Principal in Portfolio Operations, explain why tracking greenhouse gas emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. Rightly understood, then, tracking GHG emissions is neither greenwashing nor a compliance checkbox. link] $BX #GHG.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019. But as far back as 2019, it was not certain that LNG exports would replace coal, rather than being used side by side and delaying clean energy alternatives.

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ESG Today

APRIL 27, 2023

represents the second-highest country share at 9%, this has seen a steady decline from 20% in 2019. Europe’s gains come as North American share continues to decline, with issuance volumes in the quarter of $28 billion representing 11% of the market, compared to a 15% share in 2022. While the U.S. Non-financial corporate issuance in the U.S.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The fund, launched in 2019, focuses on identifying businesses whose structural growth is driven by decarbonisation across three key pathways: renewable energy, resource efficiency and electrification. “I

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” This anti-science plan represents the biggest greenwashing exercise of all time.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Regulation will never be sufficient to protect investors from greenwashing, says Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, EVP at RepRisk. While this is to be encouraged as a step toward the transition to a more sustainable future, focused around lower-carbon economies, this same pressure has also led to an uptick in greenwashing.

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ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2023

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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James Militzer

MAY 19, 2022

For instance, McDonald’s is one of the world’s largest beef purchasers, and it generated more greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 than entire countries. Even if they’re not actively greenwashing, most companies don’t publish information about their emissions or other environmental impacts. Missing information also contributes to this gap.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

For example, in 2019, the BBC found that compostable plastics in Wales were going to landfills rather than being composted because almost all local councils were unable to deal with them. Such bioplastics have effectively been ‘greenwashed’, he said, and mis-sold to environmentally responsible consumers and companies.

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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). iii] CRUK (2019) Carpet Recycling UK: Landfill diversion of carpet waste rises. [iv] million a year in unpaid climate harm alone.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

Thus, SLBs—more than most other ESG-labeled bonds—need close watching for potential greenwashing, the practice of a company misleading investors about its commitments to environmental improvement. In our analysis, this suggests a greater risk for greenwashing among SLBs.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The survey found that nearly all investors (99%) utilize companies’ ESG disclosures as a part of their investment decision-making, and that the methods used have matured significantly over the past few years, with 74% reporting conducting a “structured and methodical evaluation of nonfinancial disclosures,” compared to only 32% in 2019.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The high-profile climate activist was the first Canadian student to join Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future climate strike in 2018, has lobbied politicians on a host of environmental matters, and helped convince her hometown of Sudbury to declare a climate emergency in 2019.

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