ESG Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Fossielvrij campaigner Hiske Arts said: “Today’s judgment is a landmark victory in the fight against greenwashing. Statements that were not ruled misleading included those outlining the airline’s 2030 climate ambitions and appealing to stakeholders to take steps to make aviation more sustainable.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

There are no risk-free options, especially in such a maturing sector where our understanding of carbon offsetting and reduction is constantly evolving. You need consultants or brokers to help you buy ‘the right’ offsets. Buying carbon offsets is a challenging and alienating experience.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Finally, we had COP15 on Biological Diversity with the agreement to Protect and Conserve at least 30% of the World’s Land and Ocean by 2030 (30×30). Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Setting “climate-neutral” goals (“I promise to quit smoking by 2030!”) ”) and then buying offsets to get there has become such the norm in the sustainable business world that if you’re not doing it, you seem corrupt. They meant well, but doing anything else felt unfamiliar and risky.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

The primary problem with the phrase ‘net zero’ is the first word, which introduces a fog of uncertainty and has encouraged many organisations to promise carbon offsetting in the future instead of reducing emissions today. Carbon offsetting, with all is faults and likely future scrutiny, accounts for 19% of the plan.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Annual clean energy investment in EMDEs needs to increase by more than seven times, from US$150 billion in 2020 to over US$1 trillion a year by 2030, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report. . It has been launched in partnership with philanthropies the Bezos Earth Fund and Rockefeller Foundation. . How will the ETA work?

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Governments are being called on to put some regulatory muscle behind corporate net-zero pledges to ensure they don’t amount to mere greenwashing. . We must have zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing. -UN The planet cannot afford delays, excuses, or more greenwashing.” . UN Secretary-General Ant ó nio Guterres.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Agreeing to work collectively, the pact includes a commitment from each signatory to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 and achieve a 50% reduction by 2030. With a quantifiable number, they then built in the price of carbon offsets supporting the Medford Spring Grassland Conservation Project in Bent County, Colorado.

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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. Your stakeholders also will appreciate that you set interim targets 2025, 2030 to review your progress. Using Carbon Offsets in net-zero targets.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

There are other areas in which the TPT will have to set their own expectations, spanning from reliance on carbon offsetting and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to transparency on climate lobbying. . Throwing down the gauntlet . The latter is known as the ‘4 P’s’: pledge, plan, proceed and publish.

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