Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is now considering biodiversity in the development of new ESG disclosure standards. However, the risks from biodiversity loss are enormous.

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ESG Today

MAY 6, 2024

The launch marks the latest in a series of initiatives across jurisdictions to set up a classification system for the definition of sustainable economic activities, including taxonomy systems already established or in development in the EU , UK and Australia.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found. China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action. Ateli Iyalla. Mon, 12/14/2020 - 00:05.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Asset managers should expect and prepare to be challenged on the sustainability credentials of their ESG-labelled funds as financial markets watchdogs clamp down on greenwashing, according to regulatory experts. . Growing concerns over greenwashing and mislabelling were highlighted in a 2021 report published by think tank InfluenceMap. .

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 28, 2024

In addition to bringing in Kenyan climate and development researchers from the SDSN Kenya network , we were able to facilitate the active involvement of Kenyan ‘carbon’ farmers through contacts of the SDSN FELD (Food, Environment, Land and Development) Programme.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Notably, oil and gas companies within CA100+’s portfolio of 159 focus companies are still commissioning projects that do not align with Paris Agreement goals, while an overwhelming number of electric utility companies are not building out sufficient renewable energy capacity. Renewed engagement.

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ESG Today

JULY 8, 2022

The index is designed to meet the minimum standards for EU Climate Transition Benchmarks (CTB) Regulation to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and help mitigate the risk of greenwashing. CTB criteria include 7% annual decarbonization, and a 30% minimum reduction in GHG emissions intensity relative to the market index.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

European efforts to bring transparency to ESG funds haven’t addressed fears of greenwashing. Different approaches to product classification have sown confusion and raised greenwashing concerns among both institutional and retail investors. The regulation has “spurred product development and innovation”, it says.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Developed countries have belatedly reached a target for climate finance, only to be set a new one for nature. Developed nations mobilised US$115.9 billion of climate finance for developing countries in 2022, it was revealed this week, exceeding for the first time the US$100 billion annual level set in Copenhagen in 2009.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas. Fancy writes: “To fix our system and curb a growing [greenwashing] disaster, we need government to fix the rules.”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

But SBTi’s status as the gold standard for companies serious about decarbonising in line with the Paris Agreement took a serious hit last month after a highly public spat between staff and executives. Major corporate buyers stepped back from purchasing carbon credits as accusations of greenwashing grew.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“Most banks’ fossil fuel policies focus on a small portion of their financing – the direct financing of new oil and gas assets – and fail to capture the vast streams of capital going to companies developing these assets.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

C warming target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and there must be a “rapid acceleration of mitigation efforts after 2030” if there is any hope of limiting global temperature increases to 2°C. . He is disappointed more has not been achieved since the Paris Agreement. . “In Greater collaboration .

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. Many of them address the obstacles faced by real companies in their quest to develop technology, products and services aimed at reducing emissions, combating climate change and achieving environmental sustainability.

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James Militzer

JULY 12, 2023

Based on these reports, it’s understandable for people to conclude that carbon credits are nothing but greenwashing — a charade designed to allow big corporations to pretend to take climate action while making no real effort to reduce their actual emissions. Should we make this happen as fast as possible?

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 23, 2024

Transitioning to advanced data systems transcends mere compliance; it is a strategic imperative that accelerates our progress towards sustainable development goals. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recently found that 57% of 247 businesses surveyed might have engaged in greenwashing through their claims.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2022

New tool identifies greenwashing, finds GFANZ exclusion policies lagging net zero pledges. The tracker detects greenwashing practices in the finance sector, said Director Lucie Pinson. “It banks must address those loopholes and cut off the taps for companies that are still developing new oil and gas projects.”.

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Sustainability Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Corporate sustainability goals often align with published, globally endorsed agreements such as those of the Paris Agreement and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, the framework centres on a discussion paper that was developed in partnership with the OECD in 2018.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 3, 2024

There have been bad faith actors from the corporate world, greenwashing their activities, depleting the world’s resources, damaging the environment and wasting the planet’s and the climate movement’s time and energies. Many people are cautious about the intentions of companies that have committed to decarbonization and with some reason.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

UK pension schemes will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Paris Agreement from October, but will also be given greater flexibility to make climate-positive investments as well as new stewardship guidance, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed today. Paris alignment. degrees Celsius. Walking the walk”.

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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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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Yes, sustainable finance is a new field of finance, with a new industry and new jobs, new regulations and frameworks developed by various governmental and nongovernmental bodies. Policymakers are working toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015, to be achieved by 2030.

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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. . development, prohibiting new? Phasing down and out . fossil fuel ?development,

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Episode 248: Mastercard CSO, parsing plastics policy, Paris Agreement at 5. Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals? Happy 5th anniversary, Paris Agreement (39:25) . Paris Agreement. Heather Clancy. Fri, 12/11/2020 - 00:10. Week in Review. Stay connected.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

make greenwashing easier to detect and allow companies that are really delivering on climate action to stand out from the crowd. Companies can align themselves with the HLEG by using the Coalition’s new guidance on how to develop a climate transition action plan. Business looks to Dubai to deliver a breakthrough at COP28.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

European financial regulators’ efforts to police environmental impact claims are ineffective and create a greater risk of greenwashing. This is the excoriating view from the 2° Investing Initiative (2DII), an independent, non-profit think tank working to align financial markets and regulations with the Paris Agreement goals.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In the Paris Agreement, world governments committed to curbing global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dutch regulator proposes overhaul ahead of green fund consultation closure, France follows Belgium in revising SRI label to exclude fossil fuel developers. The label will also require a transition plan aligned with the Paris Agreement. This follows updates to the criteria of a similar SRI label by Belgium in July.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. As responsible investors search for the most sustainable companies to back, the outcomes of these debates could not be more important for global efforts to rapidly cut emissions.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We will look at the response to the Global Stocktake, and what it means for the goals of the Paris Agreement and the pace of renewables adoption globally; we will also explore the intensifying climate-nature nexus and the role of the finance sector in the transition to net zero. The official verdict was clear.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

The UNFCCC’s “ much-work-remains ” press release diplomatically reflected the wide gaps between the global north and south on adaptation , loss and damage , and on climate finance for developing countries more broadly. But it was left to others to express the desperation and urgency felt in island states and elsewhere.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

However, she has observed an increasing trend of climate-related litigations, particularly involving greenwashing and misleading advertising. Next, she explained that the third category involves carbon markets established under Article Six of the Paris Agreement.

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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

There are four participants in VCMs: Project developers are the ones creating the carbon offset project. Brokers provide advice and facilitate credit transactions between buyers and project developers. CDM allowed rich countries to meet some of their climate obligations by funding carbon-cutting projects in the developing world.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) was established in 2021 in response to concerns that companies making carbon neutrality claims based on their use of carbon credits to offset their emissions were greenwashing. November 2023: The Claims Code of Practice was updated at COP28, alongside other key developments.

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