Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

According to global institutional asset manager Ninety One, they are also on a trajectory to represent 90% of emissions growth by 2030. However, we don’t just buy the bonds of a large cement company with 2030 targets and then wait until 2031 to see the results,” said Christ.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the statement it referred to metallurgical coal as “carbon steel materials”, drawing accusations of greenwashing. Divest or wind down? Anglo American sold its thermal coal portfolio in 2021, while BHP announced in 2022 that it would close its last such mine in 2030.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. Reclaim Finance notes a “growing trend” within the investor community to condemn exclusion and divestment from heavy emitters as both “unrealistic and ineffective” tools to decarbonise the economy.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

Were the sustainability measures and corporate social responsibility offices at VW simply engaged in greenwashing? But many expect that within the next few years demand for LIB disposal will rise sharply, and by 2030, 1.2 In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA?

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

ESG investing has had to overcome numerous challenges, ranging from investor caution to multiple cases of greenwashing. It contrasted the negative performance against benchmarks resulting from divestment from fossil fuel firms with the positive relative returns achieved by funds not exposed to the sector in Q1 2020.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Perhaps more encouragingly, almost a fifth of shareholders voted in favour of resolutions calling on ExxonMobil and Shell to accurately disclose the role of asset transfers in their reported GHG emissions reductions, which would stop them claiming CO2 cuts from divestments.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

trillion across the region by 2030. The headline targets and goals enshrined in the new GBF include protection for 30% of the Earth’s surface by 2030, which may have implications for both existing and planned sites and facilities. The GBF is influencing policy through its goals and 2030 targets.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

Pledges and plans – This was a potentially significant week in the fight against greenwashing , with UN Climate Change unveiling its ‘ recognition and accountability framework ’ – essentially a tool for monitoring and verifying the net zero pledges of non-state actors – at its Bonn Climate Conference. “The

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

For sustainable tech to be possible, funders, including investors, philanthropists, and foundations, must develop a two-pronged approach of intentional investments in those leading justice-centered approaches to technological and economic transitions and informed divestments from extractive and fossil-fuel-dependent systems and enterprises.

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