Divestment Greenwashing Information 
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? The role of investors in improving access to verifiable information is also critical.
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. And citizens and consumers will have the kind of granular information they need to more effectively target the decision-makers and brands standing in the way of a sustainable future.
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Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The reaction of major Canadian oil and gas companies to new federal anti-greenwashing rules has been telling. Nearly all of these major investors say that they are “engaging” with high-carbon investees in their portfolios in order to advance net-zero, setting this up as a binary choice against divestment.
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
along with ongoing corporate greenwashing and fossil-fuel disinformation, it’s sometimes hard to tell if society is moving forward or slipping back. In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” You follow the money, of course. through those years.
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The survey also examined areas in which investors were seeking sustainability-related information, with 76% reporting that it is important for companies to report on the cost of meeting their sustainability commitments, and 74% looking for reporting on the roadmap to meet those commitments.
ESG Today
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Yet the increased level of transparency, disclosure and accountability and third-party assurance to enforce it, while good for investors, creates a range of new challenges for companies reporting ESG information and for the investors tracking them.
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Investors continue to suffer from poor-quality climate-related information in company reports and other statements, particularly from firms with the highest CO2 emissions. Only eight, or 6%, received ‘partial’ scores by providing all the information required by the CAAA methodology for at least one of the seven metrics used to assess them.
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