Climate Change Divestment Greenwashing 
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. Some previously untargeted companies, brands, institutional investors and geographies will be thrust into the limelight as central problems in the battle against climate change.
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Corporate Knights
JULY 14, 2022
EE: There’s a general concern about greenwashing and the dissonance between what many companies say they believe about ESG issues and what they are actually doing. Do you feel corporate greenwashing has increased or decreased from the 1970s and ’80s? Both divestment and shareholder action have a role.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Five of the global supermajors are spending around US$750 million annually on greenwashing while allocating just 12% of capital expenditures to “low-carbon” activities, according to think tank InfluenceMap. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency have made clear, limiting global heating to 1.5?
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Similarly, 69% of investors reported that they would increase their investments in companies that successfully manage sustainability issues relevant to the business’s performance and prospects, and 67% would increase investment in companies that change their business conduct to have a beneficial impact on society or the environment.
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
along with ongoing corporate greenwashing and fossil-fuel disinformation, it’s sometimes hard to tell if society is moving forward or slipping back. In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” You follow the money, of course. through those years.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
McMurdo says it is critical that large institutional investors unite if they are to realise change. McMurdo anticipates more such rebellions this year, which he says reflects the pervasive greenwashing evident in net zero plans. Disputing divestment. And McMurdo’s caution about divestment is not limited to the energy sectors.
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