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Greenwashing corporate communications is slowing climate progress

Corporate Knights

If we have any chance of heeding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s repeated warnings and meaningfully reducing global CO2 emissions by 2030 , the business community will have to get serious about the task at hand. . Vanessa Chris is a content strategist and founder of h2h content. .

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RBC shareholder resolution confronts greenwashing loopholes in ‘sustainable debt’

Corporate Knights

While linking corporate debt to sustainability targets sounds like a great way of incentivizing companies to make environmental, social and governance (ESG) improvements, a lack of standardized rules has quickly opened the door to greenwashing, with some companies using the funds to continue business as usual with little ESG impact. .

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Canada's greenwashing law has been a major reality check for the oil lobby

Corporate Knights

Where once there were claims about the companies working together to reduce their absolute emissions by 22 million tons (Mt) annually by 2030, and to net-zero by 2050, there is now a statement that Pathways is “focused on advancing environmental innovation and pursuing emissions efficiencies from our oil sands operations”.

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Origin looks to renewables and storage for climate plan, but greenwashes gas

Renew Economy

Origin Energy's first Climate Action Transition Plan has some definite positives, but is coming under fire for greenwashing gas out of its 2030 targets. The post Origin looks to renewables and storage for climate plan, but greenwashes gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing

Corporate Knights

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. . The post Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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We must not let big emitters greenwash their emissions with renewables free kick

Renew Economy

We can't afford to give free kicks to heavy emitters, especially when Australia needs all the help it can get to reach 82% renewables by 2030. The post We must not let big emitters greenwash their emissions with renewables free kick appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canada’s new greenwashing ban rattles fossil fuel industry

Corporate Knights

That pre-emptive action is proof of that which activists in Canada say has long been in plain sight: greenwashing is rampant in the fourth-largest petroleum-producing country in the world – but will new legislative ammo effectively tackle it? That includes the kind of proof that companies will have to give to the public about their claims.