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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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A wave of anti-“greenwashing” litigation is seeking to hold major players in the aviation industry to account for sensational claims of being sustainable, low-carbon or contributing to net zero. It’s not hard to see why the aviation industry has provoked the ire of climate activists. Why greenwashing?

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Toronto’s proposal would potentially remain open to ads that align with the city’s net zero goals and don’t run afoul of new federal anti-greenwashing regulations. When new anti-greenwashing regulations came into effect in Canada earlier this year, Pathways removed all content from their website.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Earlier this year Coldplay announced that its air travel would be powered by green jet fuel but was then accused of greenwashing for partnering with Neste, whose controversial “sustainable aviation fuel” might not be entirely green. The post The music industry changes its tune on climate change appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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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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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But Ecojustice lawyer Matt Hulse said Canada’s current regulatory system still requires citizens to play “whack-a-mole” against the behaviour of individual banks, rather than taking a systemic approach to greenwashing and fossil fuel finance. This is disingenuous greenwashing at best, and unlawful at worst.

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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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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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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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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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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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B the Change

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

That means avoiding “greenwashing,” or false communications about environmental action. Greenwashing is a big problem. You’ve probably heard of greenwashing. We define greenwashing and explain why it hurts your company. What Is Greenwashing? Greenwashing can be either intentional or unintentional.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

They will also require massive amounts of capital from financial markets that still don’t adequately value the risks and opportunities associated with climate change. Broadly speaking, net-zero pledges amount to mere aspiration or greenwashing if they are not backed by science-based strategies.

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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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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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted last week, we are in the midst of a climate emergency. New climate rules introduced earlier this month by Canada’s financial regulator – the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) – are a long overdue effort to bridge that gap.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Canadian oil and gas industry is engaging in greenwashing by endorsing a 2050 net-zero target while actively lobbying against measures that would achieve that climate goal, international non-profit InfluenceMap says in a report. In statement, CAPP rejected the greenwashing charge. Image courtesy of InfluenceMap.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2024

The climate-change argument is central to the LNG debate in Canada. It is impossible to justify expanding LNG trade if the resulting production and consumption of natural gas would be inconsistent with efforts to mitigate the growing climate crisis. Essentially, Article 6 has become a green fig leaf to greenwash LNG exports.

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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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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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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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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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Impakter

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Impakter Greenwashers Beware: Your Sustainability Exaggerations Are About to Get Expensive Greenwashing has become a pillar of marketing campaigns in most (not so) eco-friendly industries, with many companies now often making misleading environmental claims about the sustainability of their products. Laetitia Exertier

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences.

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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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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Climate change is a public health crisis,” declared Joe Vipond, president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), which sent the letter. In September, CAPE struck again, filing a greenwashing complaint with the federal Competition Bureau against the natural gas industry.

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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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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 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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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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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

Tim Nash, founder, Good Investing Morningstar says that after three years of high growth, managers are being more selective and tactical in their approach ahead of anti-greenwashing regulations in the United Kingdom and Europe. Its also asking about personal topics and issues like diversity and climate change.

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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It committed to a green and transition taxonomy (a classification system for investments) and mandatory climate-related disclosure from large private companies. It also proposed to tackle greenwashing by strengthening competition law. Last week was the first hearing of what is expected to be a many-session study of CAFA.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

At the GLOBExCHANGE conference, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced that companies wanting to supply the federal government on contracts worth more than $25 million will need to comply with new climate change requirements. C scenarios, Routledge said.

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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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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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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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