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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking? Thu, 07/15/2021 - 00:01. Some boards approve, some feel comfortable doing so and are hoping for the best; others are afraid to be called out on greenwashing but approve them anyway, because "everyone else" are setting goals. Helle Bank Jorgensen. Because it does. Pull Quote.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. According to a report by the London-based NGO Global Witness, 503 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2021. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing.

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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:00. Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. If successfully on stream by summer 2021 as its designers hope, the service should drive not only increased transparency but also increased accountability.

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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!

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Regulator Bans HSBC Ads Highlighting Green Activities as Misleading

ESG Today

The ruling referred to ads displayed in bus stops in London and Bristol in October 2021, in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference, promoting HSBC’s initiatives to provide up to $1 trillion in finance and investment to help clients transition to net zero, and to help plant 2 million trees.

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The music industry changes its tune on climate change

Corporate Knights

Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s In it, they calculated their actual carbon footprint (116 MTCO2e, or metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, in 2021) and pledged to become “carbon negative” by their 30th anniversary in 2026 – a more ambitious goal than the Music Climate Pact that they also signed.

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

ESG Today

The UK initially committed to introduce mandatory disclosure of transition plans from financial institutions and listed companies during the COP26 conference in 2021 , and formed a Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT), composed of industry and academic leaders, regulators, and civil society groups, to develop a “gold standard” for transition plans, in order (..)

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