Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

Natasha Landell-Mills, Head of Stewardship at Sarasin & Partners, outlines five actions investors can take to build on the ambitions and commitments outlined in 2021. Yet COP26 came and went without the detailed action plans required. Concerns over corporate greenwash are widespread.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016. Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

Unveiled at COP26 and consolidating the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) and? One of the biggest threats to the credibility of the whole system is greenwashing; overselling [sustainable credentials] and underperforming. The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is the latest initiative. two-pillar structure?for

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2022

The 2022 work plan builds on IOSCO’s 2021 release of recommendations for the oversight of ESG ratings and data providers, and guidance on preventing greenwashing in fund products. Avoiding greenwashing. We need everyone in the securities sector to work with us now to promote good practices and call out greenwashing.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As discussions about ESG become more and more polarized—while progressive politicians push for aggressive regulations, billionaires like Elon Musk call it a “scam” and nonprofits accuse businesses of greenwashing—leaving consumers increasingly confused.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Having launched its framework in November 2022, the TPT aims to finalise its disclosure framework and implementation guidance and will develop sectoral guidance.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. As an example, EU ETS reached in November 2021 an all-time spike of 66€/ton of CO2. – Voluntary carbon offset markets (VCM). Greta Thunberg.

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B the Change

JUNE 22, 2022

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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

One net zero plan that has caught our eye is the one that was published by the airline industry in late 2021. However, note that the IATA’s own projections are that production will have to increase from 100 million litres in 2021 to 450 billion litres in 2050. Companies that underestimate the changes ahead may fail. Biting the bullet.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

Notably, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) – launched at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 – has been tasked with developing a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures for the world’s capital markets. Technology will also play a bigger part. . consultant Optimas. billion in 2022. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2023

There are disappointments, such as the perceived failure of the UK’s leadership of 2021’s COP26 and the taxonomy delay. Alongside disclosure from corporates, the UK is also working on disclosure from the financial sector on sustainability which will feed into a labelling system for funds in a bid to combat greenwashing. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

To support emerging market climate transitions, developed countries and private investors are drawing up an ambitious blueprint, but is it working?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Earlier, we talked about the climate disruptions that rocked the United States in 2021. Most recently, Kristy was on the ground in the UK, covering TEDConnect and COP26. 2021, October 12). 2021, September 14). I have active hope that my home will be here tomorrow.”. Hope is an active choice for them, too. Video file].

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The report says that plan should “formalise, standardise, and extend commitments that many Canadian financial institutions have already voluntarily made”, including through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero initiatives born out of last year’s COP26 Summit.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities issued its recommendations for eliminating ‘greenwashing’ from net zero pledges, which emphasised the need for “significant near- and medium- emission reductions” in 2050 decarbonisation plans. . Banks lay out targets .

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Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

trillion in assets in 2020 ( 2021 sustainability trends ). The IFRS presented during COP26 the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to drive international consistency of sustainability-related disclosures. Announcement of the new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) during COP26.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

2021 was an uncommon and tough year due to COVID19 guiding our lives. In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. 2021 Sustainability Summary.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. Currently, the SBTi is working on detailed criteria and guidance using a public consultation in early 2021. Net-Zero timeline by SBTi. Conclusions.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Getting to net-zero – without greenwashing. The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

In 2021 Ukraine submitted its updated NDC to the UNFCCC which targets emissions reductions of 65 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2060. At the most recent climate talks (COP26) Ukraine announced that it was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance promising to phase out coal by 2035. He is the only U.S.

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