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.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2022

Lack of visibility and perceptions of “greenwashing”. Another risk associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy is that your efforts will be seen as insufficient, or overblown. “One of the lessons of economic history,” the authors assert, “is that successful incumbents can be swept away as a new era emerges.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. Reading this article, you will better understand the carbon offsets market, carbon offsets controversy and the key initiatives to follow. Carbon Offsets Markets size. Introduction.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2023

The European Union, China, the United Kingdom and about 20 other countries are developing such taxonomies as a way of discouraging greenwashing and channelling investment to the climate transition.

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ESG Today

MAY 21, 2023

This week in ESG news: Microsoft signs one of the largest ever carbon removal deals; Deloitte survey finds over 40% of Gen Z & Millennials would switch jobs over climate concerns; EU Parliament proposes ban on green claims based only on carbon offsetting; Morgan Stanley raises $500 million for climate solutions fund; most companies planning to (..)

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ESG Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 467-65 to approve a series of rules aimed at protecting consumers from greenwashing, or misleading environmental claims by companies, including requiring companies to submit product marketing claims such as “biodegradable” or “less polluting” for verification before being allowed to use them.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

Matthew Shankland, Head of Sidley Austin’s London-based Disputes Resolution Practice, outlines how i nvestor s can mitigate against the increased risk of greenwashing-related issues in company advertising. Under English law, there is no specific cause of action for, or law governing, greenwashing.

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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. In addition to these new requirements, the Taxonomy Roadmap Report was developed by the Sustainable Finance Action Council.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

United Airlines has committed to fully reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 without relying on carbon offsets. It’s not about offsets or things that are just greenwashing. billion gallons of SAF from the venture over 20 years. This fund is unique. That’s the only way we can actually decarbonize aviation.”

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

In Japan, only 56% of respondents reported being interested in sustainable investing, and only 36% indicated increased interest, potentially due to a less developed sustainable investing market, according to the report. and 97% in Europe. Click here to access the report.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Thanks to everything from historic climate policies to being a topic of interest on late night television, the recent focus on carbon offsets — and the Voluntary Carbon Market as a whole — has never been stronger. Cool Effect vets project financials to ensure that it’s clear how all funds are being used.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.” Data for the US and broader developed markets will be added in the second quarter of 2022. The domestic Indonesian carbon market will be linked to ACX’s international client order book.

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ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2024

Additionally, carbon offsetting markets faces a series of challenges, however, with participants often unable to differentiate between high and low quality projects with insufficient or inconsistent data to assess the effectiveness of projects.

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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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Eco Coach

APRIL 21, 2020

For those businesses, one of the steps to consider is calculating their carbon footprint. Once the footprint is determined, they can take actions to reduce their emissions, and between reductions and carbon offsets, become carbon neutral. Indeed, calculating a carbon footprint can be a daunting task.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No country in the region has made reporting against the frameworks mandatory, further increasing greenwashing risk and due diligence costs. A comprehensive taxonomy can mitigate the risk of greenwashing by enforcing stringent requirements and maintaining transparency.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No country in the region has made reporting against the frameworks mandatory, further increasing greenwashing risk and due diligence costs. A comprehensive taxonomy can mitigate the risk of greenwashing by enforcing stringent requirements and maintaining transparency.”

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 1, 2024

The world’s leading authority on corporate climate plans has dealt a blow to the carbon-offset industry, signalling that it objects to corporations using carbon credits in place of emission reductions in their own supply chains.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends. Moreover, measuring impact is still in its early development, with most funds using SDGs or qualitative assessments to measure their impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This requires practical everyday solutions for getting things done and the development of long-term targets – which this project aims to deliver against. The outputs will inform the feasibility of carbon offsetting opportunities (in which buyers can invest in projects that reduce carbon emissions to offset their own) here in the Falklands.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The world fought back against the pandemic, and in just one year, developed four vaccines and immunized half of the world’s population. Despite poor coverage in developing countries (6%) and new variants bringing back lockdowns, we hope to go back soon to a new normality. 2 – Carbon Offset Markets price Hike.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But analysis by the emissions-modeling group Climate Interactive shows that even if we successfully deployed all the possible natural carbon offsets in the world— without cutting emissions —we won’t limit warming below catastrophic levels. ”) It must be addressed.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While this study elevated a discussion about the role of nature in fighting climate change, it also raised concerns around the adverse environmental impacts of mass tree plantations, carbon offsetting schemes, and greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before the end of the year, it will publish a price for carbon emissions, which Cohen hopes will put an end to one of the many hot and increasingly political debates surrounding the net zero transition. There are lots of prices for the cost of polluting the atmosphere by emitting more CO2.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It requires you to follow a 4-step process: 1- Understand your carbon footprint. Therefore, developing a basic map of your emissions in both your operations and in your supply chain should be the first step. Here my article about supply chain carbon footprinting and here a list of experts in carbon footprinting or LCAs.

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James Militzer

JULY 12, 2023

Despite their growing popularity as a way for businesses and other carbon emitters to offset their own emissions by buying credits from other entities that reduce or remove carbon from the atmosphere, recent research has called their effectiveness into question. Should we make this happen as fast as possible?

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Dr Torsten Schwarze, Partner at Morgan Lewis, explains how two EU directives will shape Europe’s legal framework to restrict greenwashing. ESG compliance is becoming increasingly important for companies, and the development of technologies and products to help reduce their carbon footprint has become a priority for many.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Regulators around the world are considering increasing their scrutiny of companies’ emissions-reduction claims in a bid to dispel greenwashing concerns. . Today’s guidelines will help companies continue to decarbonise in a cost-effective way,” UK Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

As an example of good practice, Turner cited the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). “It Major corporate buyers stepped back from purchasing carbon credits as accusations of greenwashing grew. It moves relatively slowly – and when it does, it does so quite thoughtfully.”

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2023

Simon Puleston Jones, CEO of carbon brokerage and advisory firm Climate Solutions, told ESG Investor that the “widespread availability of accurate, affordable and timely data” in relation to carbon abatement projects is “critical if carbon markets are to scale”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 10, 2022

UK plan for net zero financial centre depends on development of a “nature-positive” economy, according to new report. In its new report, UKSIF further argued that the UK will not be able to achieve its objective of becoming a net zero financial centre without the development of a “nature-positive” economy.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This means end-buyers, the companies which retire the credits to compensate part of their emissions, can only provide limited information on their offsetting strategy or on the specific characteristics of the projects they source their credits from, said Britsch, adding that there is also a power imbalance between VCM stakeholders.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion. But it was much, much longer than that.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

But fast forward three years on and pretty much every major chocolate company and cocoa trader is developing an agroforestry plan.". While agroforestry is seen as having significant potential for the carbon offset market, its variability makes it a more complicated agricultural investment. What is agroforestry?"

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

On 25 April, the UK government launched its Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) to develop a transition plan disclosure framework. 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. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Mobilising public and private capital to fund the net zero transition efforts of emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has been a central theme of discussions at COP27 in Egypt. . This explainer will explore the blueprint for the US ETA and consider the role of VCMs is channelling finance from developed markets to EMDEs. .

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