2024 Carbon Offsets Greenwashing 
Corporate Knights
APRIL 18, 2024
In 2023, we purchased carbon offset credits from 16 projects that neutralized approximately 7% of our Scope 3 emissions,” Maple Leaf spokespeople tell Corporate Knights – specifically for products that carry the “carbon zero” marketing label. That includes emissions from animals and meat purchased from suppliers. “In
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
In line with last year’s survey findings, strategies that focus on carbon removal credits are favored by respondents from larger companies, whereas smaller companies are more likely to have strategies that focus on carbon reduction or avoidance credits.
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ESG Today
JUNE 17, 2024
The European Council today announced today that it has reached an agreement on a series of proposals aimed at protecting consumers from greenwashing, setting requirements for companies to substantiate and verify claims and labels regarding the environmental attributes of products and services.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 13, 2024
While almost a third of those questioned (33%) believed carbon offsetting is a viable strategy for achieving net-zero emissions, just 37% have employed it as a strategy to reduce their businesses’ environmental impact. The survey gathered data from 1,498 professionals from across the environmental services industry from April-May 2024.
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
AB 1305: Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Business Regulation Act For its part, AB 1305 will impose new disclosure requirements on companies - public and private, of all sizes - that make net-zero GHG emissions, GHG emissions neutrality, or similar claims.
Corporate Knights
JULY 25, 2023
Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. Now, it’s being taken up by a multilateral panel that is expected to report in 2024 if all goes well. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? In 2020, a blistering analysis showed Canada leading the G20 countries in per capita public financing to oil and gas.
3BL Media
AUGUST 2, 2023
The voluntary carbon-offset market is rapidly evolving and is expected to grow to around $250 billion by 2050 from only $2 billion in 2020. 5 This will require financial institutions to publish climate disclosures that align with the TCFD framework beginning in 2024, using a phased approach.
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