ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new rules form part of the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR), introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The new measures include an anti-greenwashing rule, applying to all communication by FCA-authorized firms about the environmental or social characteristics of financial products or services, aimed at ensuring that the claims made “are fair, clear, and not misleading, and consistent with the sustainability profile of the product or service.”

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The UK government announced the publication of draft legislation, aimed at regulating providers of ESG ratings, with plans to proceed with introducing a finalized law to Parliament in early 2025. The new proposed law would place ESG ratings providers under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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ESG Today

MAY 28, 2024

The CSRD took effect from the beginning of 2024 for large public-interest companies with over 500 employees, followed by companies with more than 250 employees or €40 million in revenue in 2025, and is slated to take effect for listed SMEs in 2026.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Food brands should keep this in mind as they plan for 2025, particularly when it comes to their sustainability goals, because global trade trends will have consequences for Americans wallets and values. Fairtrade America forecasts the following trends for 2025 and calls on brands to strategize around them as the New Year approaches.

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ESG Today

MAY 8, 2024

The Stand.earth complaint outlined a series of alleged “false or misleading public representations” made by lululemon in the context of its Be Planet program.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

Tim Nash, founder, Good Investing Morningstar says that after three years of high growth, managers are being more selective and tactical in their approach ahead of anti-greenwashing regulations in the United Kingdom and Europe. Retail investors push for green funds Its not all doom and gloom. Illustrations by C.J.

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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. Addressing the UN General Assembly in 2022, Secretary-General António Guterres took aim at the “massive PR machine raking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny.”

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ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2025

ESMA launched the new rules after noting a sharp increase in the use of sustainability-related terms in fund names in Europe over the past several years, leading to an increased risk of greenwashing. The new guidelines come into effect on May 21, 2025.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The FCA’s SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

New nature legislation and updated modern slavery act are also key priorities ahead of 2025 federal elections. Next year, Australia is due to finalise its first National Climate Risk Assessment and National Adaptation Plan , which will replace the National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy 2021–2025.

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ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2025

ESMA launched the new rules after noting a sharp increase in the use of sustainability-related terms in fund names in Europe over the past several years, leading to an increased risk of greenwashing. The new guidelines come into effect on May 21, 2025.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

In fact, ESG investing is on track to exceed $50 trillion by 2025[1]—serious money that would represent more than a third of all projected global assets under management. Trillion of Global AUM by 2025, Finds Bloomberg Intelligence,” July 2021. [2] ESG is no passing fad. The second question is more complex.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

Dr Rory Sullivan, CEO of Chronos Sustainability, considers what a reshaped world means for sustainable finance in 2025. The world will look very different in 2025. The economics support sustainability One of the reasons for optimism in 2025 is because many of the actions we want to encourage are already supported by the economics.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The FCAs SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Industry experts have warned that that the timeline for implementation of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) anti-greenwashing rule could be challenging for asset managers and other regulated firms. The post Tight Timeline for FCA Anti-greenwashing Rule appeared first on ESG Investor.

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2024

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced that it has commenced work on the development of a new international standard on net zero, aimed at providing clarity and credibility to organizations’ net zero targets and strategies, and to guard against greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

RELATED Canadian investors stand firm on ESG despite greenhushing trend, report finds The anti-DEI movement confronts an unlikely opponent: big banks Meet the four most sustainable funds on the market for 2025 Deadlines to submit reports starting in 2026 will be pushed back to 2028.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2024

In 2022-23 Anheuser-Busch InBev quietly stopped running Facebook advertisements that referred to its goals of net zero emissions by 2040 and 100% recycled packaging by 2025. Such greenwashing accusations are increasingly commonplace – in the US alone, a dozen greenwashing lawsuits have been filed every year since 2020.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

As predicted by the Climate Bonds Initiative , green bonds have returned to growth and could reach the ambitious level of $5 trillion a year starting in 2025. How high is the risk of greenwashing? As interest in environmental, social and governance sustainability has grown, so as the risk of greenwashing.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 3, 2022

For a long time it remained something of a buzz phrase, understood by few and cared about by even fewer, but in recent years ESG has morphed into a global phenomenon with ESG assets tipped to surpass US$41 trillion in 2022 and US$50 trillion by 2025 — one-third of the projected total assets under management globally.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling comes as financial institutions and other companies increasingly face regulatory scrutiny over greenwashing concerns. Earlier this year, the CEO of Deutsche Bank’s investment arm DWS resigned after police raided the firms’ Frankfurt offices as part of an investigation into greenwashing allegations.

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ESG Today

MAY 12, 2024

This week in ESG news: Microsoft signs record-breaking carbon removal deal; EY survey finds over half of CEOs say sustainability a higher priority vs one year ago; BCG sustainable aviation deal to cut 100,000 tons of emissions; ERM launches carbon credit consulting business; KKR & HASI launch $2 billion sustainable infrastructure investment partnership; (..)

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

New funds will have to comply with the rules from 21 November, while existing funds have until May 2025. These rules were introduced in the wake of a consultation seeking feedback on the current requirements of SFDR , which asked whether its Article 8 and 9 disclosure categories should be more formally established as fund labels.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 4, 2025

Wider adoption of standards in regen agriculture could help prevent greenwashing but some investors fail to see the benefits, attendees at Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.

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ESG Today

JUNE 10, 2024

Two-thirds of funds in the EU labelled with sustainable or ESG-related terms may need to sell assets or change their names to align with new anti-greenwashing rules, with stock divestments of as much as $40 billion if all were to keep their names, according to a new report released by investment research firm Morningstar.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

 This latest move, meant to end greenwashing and empower the European Union’s (EU) social market economy, requires companies to disclose environmental, social and governance matters that align with the EU’s climate goals. SMEs can opt out until 2028.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This could bring with it accusations of greenwashing and/or changes to the operation of existing strategies, which could be costly and cause disruption to existing investments. Next steps The consultation is open for responses until 6 February 2025.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

Issuers subject to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will also start reporting in 2025 which will make the EU Green Bond label more accessible to them , according to Linklaters.

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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.”. New York, by contrast, took a more hard-edged approach with Local Law 97, which has firm 2025 deadlines and real fines.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Million to Improve Home Energy Efficiency Sustainable Investing Invesco Launches New Climate ETF with Record-Breaking $2.4 Million to Improve Home Energy Efficiency Sustainable Investing Invesco Launches New Climate ETF with Record-Breaking $2.4

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. government announced that all companies must be TCFD-compliant by 2025. Investors cannot make apples-to-apples comparisons on sustainability information if companies do not report their data within a common framework. More recently, the U.K. Luckily, TCFD-aligned disclosure is mainstreaming.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 18, 2022

Greenwashing vs. greenwhispering. Consumers, as well as investors , are getting better at recognizing corporate “greenwashing” — or overstating ESG efforts, including being a hero in one arena but a villain in another. Consumers aren’t the only ones with anxiety about ESG and corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Indeed, several airlines have been accused or charged with greenwashing over unclear or misleading claims on emissions and environmental impact in recent months. As of 2025, airlines operating flights within the EU or departing from the EU will be able to voluntarily join this FEL initiative.

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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has identified the EU Green Bonds and ESG Ratings regulations, as well as preparatory work for a database including sustainability-related information, among its priorities for 2025.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Rules introduced by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) last month are expected to serve as an interim anti- greenwashing measure ahead the more expansive update to the SFDR.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

billion of funding in 2025‑26 for CCUS Track-1 projects to decarbonise industry, as well as contracts with 11 green hydrogen producers worth around £2.3 Budget boost Last week, Labour’s first budget since taking office confirmed £3.9

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