Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

It also said that FIs should transition and align all financing activities with net zero pathways that achieve Paris Agreement goals, with “no or low overshoot”, as well as align them with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Addressing greenwashing. C above pre-industrial levels.

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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. .

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up. Besides, a third of the respondents consider offsetting as pure greenwashing. Offsetting is often hypocrisy, and it is swirling around at #COP26.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . Phasing down and out .

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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

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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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

To support companies in their investments in nature, We Mean Business Coalition launched a new partnership with the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity initiative (VCMI) , supporting companies to follow VCMI’s Claims Code and helping to ensure carbon market investments strengthen global action towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

While progress was uneven, it was achieved against a radically changing geopolitical backdrop, and reinforced by moves in the US to mandate climate risk disclosures by corporates and discourage greenwashing by fund providers. COP26 revisited. It might not be perfect, but perhaps we should not expect it to be.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

However, shortfalls in clean energy investments persist, the IEA said, noting that “if China is excluded, then the amount being invested in clean energy each year in [EMDEs] has remained flat since the Paris Agreement was concluded in 2015”. C is to remain achievable. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. C, clarifying fiduciary duty, and strengthening advertising rules to deter greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Also as at COP26, some developing countries are reluctant to commit too quickly to fossil fuel phase out , critical to efforts to ‘ keep 1.5°C C alive ’, especially when developed countries are still failing to deliver on climate finance pledges to support this energy transition , described in the new text as a “grave concern”.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

After the signature of the Paris Agreement in 2015, science has become widely accepted. Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. Why should a company be net-zero? 4 – Report progress.

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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. Carbon Offsets Market growth.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Getting to net-zero – without greenwashing. The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up.

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