Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its much-anticipated consultation outlining measures to tackle greenwashing, including the introduction of three categories for sustainable investments. Greenwashing misleads consumers and erodes trust in all ESG products,” said Sacha Sadan, FCA’s Director of ESG. .

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 3, 2022

“Climate and sustainability disclosures have become key requirements for most businesses, but the lack of a globally accepted reporting framework has caused confusion and even opportunities for greenwashing,” said CA ANZ Business Reform Leader Karen McWilliams.

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ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2023

The UK initially committed to introduce mandatory disclosure of transition plans from financial institutions and listed companies during the COP26 conference in 2021 , and formed a Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT), composed of industry and academic leaders, regulators, and civil society groups, to develop a “gold standard” for transition plans, in order (..)

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Energy Transitions Commission , a coalition of businesses and nongovernmental organizations, calculated that if the commitments made at COP26 are delivered, it will cut the gap between today and the 1.5 The international financial community formed a broad alliance of firms committed to net zero, attracting accusations of greenwashing.

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2022

COP26 kept sustainability at the top of every executive’s agenda, while social movements and supply chain challenges forced a dramatic rethink. There is still a lack of trust regarding organisations’ ESG claims and a perception that companies are guilty of greenwashing or only reporting on positive progress.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Getting any advice is difficult as carbon consultants are busy post COP26 and we, like many businesses nationwide, have limited in-house capacity to do it ourselves – although we’re making changes there! Since COP26, prices have skyrocketed, so buying as much as possible in advance is advised. There’s no urgency to buy credits now.

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Martin Brown

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

If you have seen the beautiful Anti-Greenwash Playbook that Content Comms launched at COP26 then you will be aware of the ability that these small books have to open conversations. And, if you are interested in obtaining a copy please do let us know now in advance so that we can determine our first print run.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 13, 2025

Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. According to a report by the London-based NGO Global Witness, 503 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2021. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing. As former U.S.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

The postponed COP26 summit held in Glasgow in November was widely billed as a moment of reckoning; the world’s last chance to set out serious plans to deliver the global commitment to keep temperature rises to 1.5°C. Yet COP26 came and went without the detailed action plans required. Concerns over corporate greenwash are widespread.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Risk of greenwashing. Accurate, comparable data is critical to prevent misallocation of capital away from transitional activities and any exposure of sustainable finance to the risk of greenwashing. As announced at COP26, the new Board will work towards issuing a series of comprehensive global baseline standards, starting with climate.

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John Englart

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

People from all ages, but especially youth and students.Greta Thunberg marched with the crowd and made a speech to the Fridays for Future Rally on November 5 in which she argued those leaders inside the COP were just engaged in Greenwashing, that it is largely a PR event, a "two-week long celebration.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2022

The 2022 work plan builds on IOSCO’s 2021 release of recommendations for the oversight of ESG ratings and data providers, and guidance on preventing greenwashing in fund products. Avoiding greenwashing. We need everyone in the securities sector to work with us now to promote good practices and call out greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. The COP26 declaration states that engagement escalation policies should be developed and disclosed, including details on how and when engagements will be escalated.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Alongside the progress of a bill in California calling for fossil fuel divestment by public-sector pensions, and the SEC’s plans for climate-risk disclosures , this new assault on greenwashing moves US policy closer to its European counterparts, where fund disclosure rules are already reshaping the market.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

A week before COP26 in Glasgow, the initiative unveiled the world’s first science-based accreditation of companies’ net-zero targets with the launch of the Corporate Net Zero Standard. Addressing greenwashing. C above pre-industrial levels. Immediate action is already possible for short term science-based targets.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As discussions about ESG become more and more polarized—while progressive politicians push for aggressive regulations, billionaires like Elon Musk call it a “scam” and nonprofits accuse businesses of greenwashing—leaving consumers increasingly confused.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Suga’s pledge was followed up at COP26 last November when current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised US$10 billion over the next five years to support Asia’s migration from fossil-fuel-fired to zero-emission thermal power, such as ammonia and hydrogen.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The UK initially committed to introduce mandatory disclosure of transition plans from financial institutions and listed companies during the COP26, resulting in the formation of the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) in 2021.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

As some noted , legislative momentum on sustainability and climate was already slowing, just 100 days after COP26. So too will the UK’s government’s latest attempt to have its cake and eat it, with regard to North Sea drilling. Like Covid-19, the Ukrainian crisis will also claim media and policymaker attention.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As one of the first countries to mandate TCFD-aligned reporting, then-Chancellor and now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled the UK’s ambition to become the world’s first net zero financial centre at COP26 last November, with the intention to mandate transition plans as the first step. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As one of the first countries to mandate TCFD-aligned reporting, then-Chancellor and now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled the UK’s ambition to become the world’s first net zero financial centre at COP26 last November, with the intention to mandate transition plans as the first step. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Sceptics remain unconvinced , their reservations over financial institutions’ commitments reinforced by news of further regulatory crackdowns on greenwashing, this time at Goldman Sachs , accused of overstating the credentials of its green funds.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This builds onto the UK’s existing national commitments, such as the Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26, promising the 2020s to be a decade of action. Unfortunately, with less than eight years left to halve emissions and current national commitments consistent with a 2.4 o C remains highly uncertain. What does a credible strategy look like?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Twelve tumultuous months later, the UK premier has a chance to prove that vision was not governmental greenwashing. Signals are mixed so far with the demotion from cabinet of the climate change minister and COP26 President Alok Sharma, and non-attendance of COP27 , on grounds of an economic crisis.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. On this critical issue, there has been no absence of good intent.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Finally, we had the Conference of the parties COP26, where countries and businesses increased their climate ambition. Two events will increase corporate Net-zero programs credibility and separate climate action from pure greenwashing: The launch of the first science-based Net-Zero standard by SBTi.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

One of the most important changes since COP26 in Glasgow last year is that companies are sharing concrete numbers on how much they’re investing, the amount of emissions they’re cutting, and the details of their impact. In fact, this has been a COP of action.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Following the UK government’s COP26 declaration that all new cars and vans must be 100% zero emission by 2035, there has been a paradigm shift, with an ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles. Solar power as “the cheapest form of electricity in history” at COP26. Increasing demand for installing EV charging points.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the circumstances, others noted , preventing backsliding from COP26 was no mean achievement, nor were the efforts of Indonesia and India to maintain the G20 leaders ’ commitment to climate action last week in Bali.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities issued its recommendations for eliminating ‘greenwashing’ from net zero pledges, which emphasised the need for “significant near- and medium- emission reductions” in 2050 decarbonisation plans. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

At the same time, the credibility of their climate strategies has been brought into question both by greenwashing scandals and recent analyses of the Paris-alignment of fund offerings. . Managers have been under close scrutiny during the current AGM season as their past voting records have not always aligned with their net zero commitments.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Yeah, and I think that’s another thing like consumers and individuals also feel so powerless but the thing is, is like these companies are so scared, especially of young people like even the term greenwashing, this year is the first time I’ve ever even heard companies be like, oh, we don’t want to be accused of that.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Finance pledges and cries of ‘greenwashing’. But without more detail, the announcement attracted cries of “ greenwashing.”. secretary-general announced an expert group to propose clear standards for companies and others making net zero commitments, partly in response to furor around greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England (and Canada) established GFANZ with billionaire Michael Bloomberg at the COP26 UN climate summit last November in Glasgow. Greenwashing is truly a clear and present danger.”. says Baltej Sidhu, an analyst with National Bank of Canada, in an interview with The Globe and Mail.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

Net-zero commitments proliferated ahead of COP26, held last November in Glasgow. Broadly speaking, net-zero pledges amount to mere aspiration or greenwashing if they are not backed by science-based strategies. We can’t afford slow movers, we can’t afford fake movers, and we can’t afford any kind of greenwashing.” .

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