We need true nature-positive solutions to address climate change
GreenBiz
APRIL 13, 2022
Generic actions of “nature-based solutions” and “natural climate solutions” leave too much room for greenwashing.
An authoratarian petrostate takes centre stage as COP29 host
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
At the close of every year, the conscience of the world goes on display at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. We have neither the time nor the patience for more scams or games of smoke and mirrors like your greenwashing fund. In 2024, COP29 must dig itself out of a bigger hole.
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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?
GreenBiz
JULY 15, 2021
Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking? Some boards approve, some feel comfortable doing so and are hoping for the best; others are afraid to be called out on greenwashing but approve them anyway, because "everyone else" are setting goals. Climate Change. Helle Bank Jorgensen. Thu, 07/15/2021 - 00:01. Because it does.
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Over Half of CFOs Fear Greenwashing Risk as Sustainability Data Problems Persist: EY Survey
ESG Today
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Matt Bell, EY Global Climate Change and Sustainability Services Leader, said: “As CFOs become more involved in sustainability reporting, their awareness of the immaturity of the reporting mechanisms used in the nonfinancial area has grown.
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The week in climate policy: 4 updates you need to know
GreenBiz
JUNE 14, 2024
New York is charging fossil fuel companies for climate change; California sues Big Oil for greenwashing and misleading consumers.
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Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. Ultimately, corporate leadership has to change because "less worse" is not an option anymore, Polman said.
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How corporations use greenwashing to convince you they are battling climate change
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 14, 2023
SciLine interviewed Thomas Lyon, professor of sustainable science, technology and commerce at the University of Michigan, on how to buy environmentally sustainable products, whether carbon credits actually work and the … Continue reading How corporations use greenwashing to convince you they are battling climate change
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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us
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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The Carbon Offset Mirage: Smoke, Mirrors, and Greenwashing? Let me explain.
Green Project Management
AUGUST 22, 2023
Here goes… Climate change or as I prefer to call it climate chaos, is tightening its grip on our planet. At […] The post The Carbon Offset Mirage: Smoke, Mirrors, and Greenwashing? appeared first on Driving Sustainable Change. It would be good to put my thoughts out for the public. Let me explain.
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KPMG at COP29 Agenda
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Tuesday 12 November 2024 10:00am – 11:00am (GMT+4) | Climate Transition Plans: Challenges and Solutions Join a panel of leaders as they look at climate transition plans, including the challenges and opportunities behind developing a fit-for-purpose climate transition plans.
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Net-Zero Climate Commitments. Ambitious Goals or Greenwashing?
Environment + Energy Leader
MARCH 9, 2023
According to CSE Research, more companies are trying to be in line with Climate standards and frameworks, aiming to secure better ratings related to climate change risk assessment. The post Net-Zero Climate Commitments. Ambitious Goals or Greenwashing? appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Ceres Applauds Two SEC Rule Proposals Designed To Protect Investors With Stronger ESG Disclosures From Investment Funds and Advisors
3BL Media
AUGUST 16, 2022
Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rules which aim to strengthen protections and address increasing confusion and greenwashing concerns around the rapid growth of ESG-oriented funds. In recent years, investor demand for climate and ESG investing has increased tremendously. investing public.
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Greenwashing Top of Mind for Execs, as War & Inflation Threaten Corporate Climate Progress: Deloitte
ESG Today
OCTOBER 26, 2022
For the new report, 2022 Climate Check, Deloitte, in collaboration with Oxford Economics, surveyed 700 executives across 14 countries and all major industry sectors, at companies with revenues ranging from $250 million to over $10 billion. Click here to access the Deloitte 2022 Climate Check report.
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California Seeks to Seize Big Oil Companies’ Profits in Climate Greenwashing Suit
ESG Today
JUNE 11, 2024
The update also adds several instances of alleged greenwashing by the companies to the complaint, through which the state claims that the companies misleadingly portrayed themselves and their fossil fuel products as environmentally friendly, or less environmentally damaging than they actually are.
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Nature-based solutions key to combatting climate change and biodiversity loss, says Lords
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 19, 2021
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has written to Alok Sharma MP, President for COP26, citing recent evidence gathered as part of the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into nature-based solutions for climate change.
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Global Trade and Climate Change Will Impact U.S. Grocery Bills—Fairtrade America Offers Key Strategies for 2025
3BL Media
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Poverty and climate change ranked second and third, respectively. Prices for commodities grown by smallholder farmers in tropical regions hit hard by climate change will increase due to reduced supply. This is a challenge because concern for greenwashing has grown alongside rates of general corporate distrust.
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Australia Financial Industry Body Sets Anti-Greenwashing Expectations for Fund Managers
ESG Today
AUGUST 3, 2022
The Financial Services Council (FSC), Australia’s financial services industry’s standards and policy setting body, announced the release of new climate-related guidelines for investment managers to set targets, report on risk, and avoid greenwashing.
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OECD Warns of Climate-alignment “Blind Spot”
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Ahead of COP29, report calls for systemic risks of climate change to be viewed through both real economy and financial sector lens. Climate-related systemic risk will not be properly reflected by financial markets until governments ensure both real economy and financial sector policies support climate alignment, recent research suggests.
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EU Council Agrees on New Rules to Tackle Greenwashing in Product Green Claims
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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Greta Thunberg Won’t Attend COP27, Accusing it of ‘Greenwashing’
Impakter
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Greta Thunberg Won’t Attend COP27, Accusing it of ‘Greenwashing’. The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many kinds of greenwashing,” Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said yesterday as she announced that she will not be attending COP27. Grace Smith.
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B Lab Forces for Good Podcast: How Can Business Combat Greenwashing?
B the Change
OCTOBER 25, 2022
A look at how to spot greenwashing and learn from companies that are telling transparent stories about their environmental footprint. We talk about how to spot greenwashing and learn from companies that are telling transparent stories about their environmental footprint. How can these same players combat greenwashing?
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What Are the Business Risks Associated With Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy?
3BL Media
AUGUST 25, 2022
Lack of visibility and perceptions of “greenwashing”. Greenwashing – a term for the perception of words (and marketing) outweighing action on behalf of climate change – is a risk that companies are increasingly sensitive to. Turn Risk into Reward: Join the Energy Transition Movement.
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ESG Confessions: 5 Sustainable Finance Pros Share How They Are Grappling With the Talent Shortage, 'Greenwashing', and the 'Sucker' Stereotype | Featuring Jordan Locke, Acre
3BL Media
APRIL 19, 2022
Jordan Locke, a recruitment consultant in Acre's Global Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing Team, sat down with Business Insider alongside a group of industry experts to discuss the current ESG talent shortage, ‘greenwashing’ and the rapid pace of change. . Greenwashing kind of falls into that same skepticism.
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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.". Climate Strategy.
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Can AI terminate climate change.or is it an even greater threat?
Corporate Knights
JUNE 29, 2023
I wouldn’t like to devalue climate change. I wouldn’t like to say, ‘You shouldn’t worry about climate change.’ Indeed, Hinton’s comparison was revealing: “I wouldn’t like to devalue climate change. I wouldn’t like to say, ‘You shouldn’t worry about climate change.’ That’s a huge risk too.
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Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2021
Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. Fewer than 1 percent said climate change is not a serious problem. The people speak. more use of bicycles or electric vehicles.
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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada
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? Climate change cannot be addressed by only changing your portfolio.
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Australian Investors Demand Greater Adaptation Action
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
However, according to investors, greater action on adaptation is required by the government to address the steep the economic costs of climate change’s physical impacts. Disasters caused by climate change were estimated to have cost Australia US$38 billion in 2021, and are forecast to rise to at least US$73 billion by 2060.
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Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 17, 2022
In recent years, they have added visions for how climate change might be addressed, including scenarios that they claim are consistent with the international … Continue reading Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows.
Rising tide of green funds floats greenwash boats
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The flood of cash into ESG and sustainable funds has also inundated the climate finance sector with greenwashing concerns. Read the full story at GreenBiz.
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New York Launches Greenwashing Suit Against World’s Largest Beef Producer JBS
ESG Today
MARCH 6, 2024
The beef industry is one of the largest contributors to climate change, and JBS has falsely advertised its commitment to sustainability and endangered our planet. JBS USA’s greenwashing exploits the pocketbooks of everyday Americans and the promise of a healthy planet for future generations.
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Reversing Climate Change is Possible — But First, We Need to Democratise Climate Finance
James Militzer
MAY 31, 2024
You sigh with relief knowing that the world had accomplished something no one thought was possible: We’d turned back the clock on climate change. Much of the current conversation around climate change focuses on the obstacles that make the problem so difficult to solve.
Regulators Turn to Tech to Tackle Greenwashing
Chris Hall
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
FCA-hosted TechSprint aims to harness technology innovation to outpace adverse impacts of greenwashing in financial services. At yesterday’s culmination of the Global Financial Innovation Network’s (GFIN) first Greenwashing TechSprint , awards were presented based on different criteria.
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Credibility Through Accountability - GRI Sets the Standard
3BL Media
MARCH 11, 2022
‘Greenwashing’ concerns can’t be addressed without effective reporting standards. From biodiversity loss to climate change, health crises to inequality, these challenges won’t be addressed without the end goal in mind. SOURCE: GRI.
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Australia to Issue Inaugural Green Bond
ESG Today
APRIL 21, 2023
In addition to the new green bond initiative, the government outlined a number of commitments aimed at advancing the development of a sustainable finance market, including backing the development of a sustainable finance taxonomy and efforts to tackle greenwashing.
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First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action?
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
This week, dozens of corporations re-upped goals, reflecting that the private sector is internalizing what’s at stake — physically, reputationally and economically — if climate change is left unchecked. Some of the most notable (some announced in the run-up to Climate Week) include: . Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.
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Sustainable Apparel Coalition Joins Global Net Zero Workshop
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The objective of the workshop was to share good practices on demand-side politics and business initiatives, fostering efforts to accelerate changes in consumer lifestyles and behaviors related to climate change and the environment.
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Going Green Without Greenwashing
Sustainability Update
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Report on every environmental initiative and face allegations of greenwashing? Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Yet, it is difficult to let go of the fear of being called a dreaded greenwasher.
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The problem of 'greenwashing' and how we can work to normalise real change
Sustainability Matters
JULY 3, 2022
But perception and reality of a company’s credentials can vary widely, and after years of media reports and widespread concern around ‘greenwashing’, the ASX recently announced a crackdown on ethical funds , joining ASIC to fight against those using the market disclosure system to fake green credentials. That’s exactly what greenwashing is.
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Blockchain vs. Greenwashing: Why Emissions Reporting is Pointless Without Verifiable Data
James Militzer
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
However, it’s difficult to gather reliable data on these emissions, and without solid evidence, this reporting can be an exercise in greenwashing. Such a regulatory and reporting environment will ensure that organisations cannot simply greenwash their way to a better public image. Blockchain-supported platforms allow them to do that.
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94% of Investors Say Corporate Sustainability Reporting Contains Unsupported Claims: PwC
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.
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EU ‘Greening Corporate Fleets’ Initiative: Progressive or State-Sponsored Greenwashing?
Impakter
MARCH 7, 2023
Impakter EU ‘Greening Corporate Fleets’ Initiative: Progressive or State-Sponsored Greenwashing? appeared first on Impakter. Stephen Hare
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Corporations Need To Speed Up Net-Zero Goals With Better Data and Collaboration, CEOs Agree
3BL Media
APRIL 14, 2022
DESCRIPTION: There’s a growing consensus in both the business and scientific worlds that the 2050 deadline for getting to net-zero carbon emissions is far too late to stave off climate-change devastation.
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UN Expert Group Proposes Rules for Net Zero Commitments
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A UN-backed group of sustainability, business, finance and government leaders unveiled a series of recommendations aimed at developing clearer standards for net zero pledges made by businesses and other non-state entities, and avoid the use of the commitments for greenwashing. Click here to access the High-Level Expert Group report.
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