Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Sharm El Sheikh sees progress on accountability and transparency of net zero pledges, but many admit need for regulatory intervention. . New mechanisms for keeping private sector climate promises have taken big steps forward at COP27 this week, while major banks provided limited visibility on their path to net zero. .

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3BL Media

JUNE 21, 2022

If the public and corporate interests understand the nature of energy transition as an event that occurs over time, they can see how stepped investments in new infrastructure will ultimately bring us closer to our green energy goals. When stating net-zero goals, it’s important to clarify the exact action taken by your organization.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Recent events have impacted my kin personally in Maui and Northwest Territories,” says the 25-year-old community organizer from Six Nations of the Grand River, who works as the just-transition lead at Sacred Earth Solar. But recent climate events have given his work a greater sense of urgency.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Agreeing to work collectively, the pact includes a commitment from each signatory to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 and achieve a 50% reduction by 2030. Devon Hardy, the program’s director, says she hopes it normalizes tracking emissions for music events. Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Net-zero emissions companies is one of the fastest-growing business trends. According to scientists achieving net-zero before 2050 is critical to keeping us safe from the catastrophic consequences of climate change. Still, many organizations struggle to make their first steps to become Net-Zero companies.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Transition” refers to activities that do not meet the green thresholds now but are on a pathway to net zero or contributing to net zero outcomes. The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 31, 2022

Reporting is also an effective way to demonstrate that you’re meeting goals and that you not just ‘greenwashing’, giving empty promises or playing lip service. The event will be opened by the Ambassador of Switzerland to South Africa, H.E. SharedValueAfrica [link].

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2024

“CPP Investments’ calling Tallgrass an ‘energy infrastructure company’ can come across as greenwashing,” DeRochie claimed. To say anything otherwise is greenwashing.” In fact, Tallgrass currently operates three crude oil pipelines and nine storage terminals with the capacity to transport around 700,000 barrels per day and store more than 8.3

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 28, 2024

The full-day event was hosted at Strathmore University in Nairobi, a local SDSN network member institution, ahead of an official Carbon Markets Conference organized by the Kenyan government on 26-27 March. A Carbon Markets Clinic and Debate’.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Public and private sector coordination provides the theme – and events of Nairobi, London and Rio de Janeiro the backdrop – for this week’s digest. What this bodes for the Net Zero Data Public Utility we shall soon find out, in Bonn probably. A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 19, 2022

Net zero emissions: How can your company work toward a carbon neutral status? Transparency and reporting consistency is the crux of ESG , especially with the emerging discussion around greenwashing—it's become a huge concern!

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This overtook the Marinara dam disaster as Brazil’s most catastrophic environmental event, which killed 19 people and destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues in 2015. The authorities and companies involved must step up as soon as possible and prevent these wholly unacceptable events.”. Haven’t people suffered enough?

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

In amongst news of the latest twists and turns of the coronavirus pandemic, the final quarter of 2021 was punctuated by a depressingly familiar set of headlines on devastating weather events. Concerns over corporate greenwash are widespread. Support remuneration committee directors who apply a net-zero underpin to executive pay.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After years of negotiation, the fund, which will launch in 2024, received pledges of more than US$700 million from countries at the event. C using the Net Zero 2050 scenario from the Network for Greening the Financial System.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There has been a shift at this year’s summit, from making pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050 to a focus on actions to cut emissions by 2030. The international financial community formed a broad alliance of firms committed to net zero, attracting accusations of greenwashing. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The largest youth generation in history is coming of age while inheriting a planet marred by extreme climate events, a lingering pandemic, armed conflicts and sharply rising inflation. Raised by two environmentalists, she’s dedicated to ensuring women have equal opportunity to succeed in our net-zero future.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

These new requirements are part of a bigger push right across the economy for new standards on environmental reporting to weed out greenwashing and support our transition to a net zero financial system – for example, through our new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements ,” she said.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In this article, I’ll summarise key events defining 2022 and present four sustainability trends that will prepare you to create an impact in 2023. In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends.

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ESG Today

JULY 12, 2023

This disconnect between sustainability targets and business models may well explain why terms like greenwashing, greenwishing and greenhushing [1] have taken hold. For even the most well-intentioned business, living up to your green claims is tough if your business model could actually be working against them. Sustainability 2.0

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2024

Modi feels the heat – Conducted in record temperatures , the world’s biggest exercise in democracy dealt a blow to the ego of incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but it’s less clear how the outcome of India’s general election will impact its net zero transition. billion people negatively impacted by desertification.

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Sphera

AUGUST 31, 2022

Without adequate and accurate data to back up ESG and sustainability commitments, companies risk being accused of greenwashing, which is when companies portray their products or services as being more sustainable than they are. Sphera is proud to participate in the ESG conversation at this global event. –Paul.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition. As a result, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Also, investor organisations, such as the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, which J. Greenwashing fears The vote is only advisory in nature and sometimes the proposals lack clarity or ambition. Therefore, we certainly want to be mindful of greenwashing. This has been a one-off event.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

The event wouldn't have been possible without the collaboration and support of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) who are also host to the SDSN Spain Network , REDS (Red Española de Desarrollo Sostenible). The event’s panels on the first day were focused on the decarbonization of the power, transport, industry, and buildings sectors.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2023

Following on from its 2020 commitment to reach net zero by 2050, the UK’s work on sustainable finance policy started seriously in October 2021 with the launch of a roadmap to help make sure the country met its binding commitment to be net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2024

At least part of the plan is to learn from the mistakes made with voluntary carbon markets – still viewed with suspicion as the most public and unacceptable face of greenwashing , only now retrieving their reputation and potentially on track to achieving their potential.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

As regulatory and policy experts called for better use of existing tools to tackle greenwashing , rather than imposing further new ones, tempers frayed in the European Parliament on related measures, notably around protecting biodiversity , while European scientists underlined that it’s not just the political clock that is ticking.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In a huge step forward for net zero economies and supply chains, the U.S. In the first week of COP27, we welcomed the UN High Level Expert Group’s Net Zero Standards report , which gives ten clear recommendations to ensure the robustness of net zero claims. C-aligned science-based targets. ACCOUNTABILITY.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Despite the muted headlines at the end of the event, Amin said COP27 would mark “a significant shift” in emphasis towards a much greater role of the private sector in delivering climate adaptation in EMDEs. At least US$1 trillion of this needs to be annually invested in EMDEs. The finance sector .

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2023

According to a report by Reclaim Finance, Lloyd’s of London has not put in place a policy to end underwriting support for fossil fuel expansion, despite having made a net zero pledge. And frankly is greenwashing.

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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. Corporations claiming to be net zero or reducing carbon emissions are increasingly being accused of deceptive marketing. Additionally, there are concerns over the utilisation of credits.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Events in Ukraine gave sustainability-minded investors pause for thought. Further, the shortcomings of Europe’s renewable energy directive will be debated more urgently, as energy security concerns combine with net zero targets. It also feels like an echo from history, both in its justification and its execution.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Mhairi Gooch has joined as Senior RI Consultant and will lead on net-zero, with her appointment following the firm joining the Net-Zero Consultants Initiative in 2021. As it reaches maturity, there’s growing demand for rigorous ‘greenwash-proof’ impact data across global markets, with the US catching up to Europe.” .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Masseri added that NGFS scenarios are not built to deal with “extreme risk” – catastrophic outcomes associated with lower probability events or fat-tailed distributions – meaning they are prone to underestimating the impact of climate change.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 11, 2022

Unveiling the report, IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said “half measures are no longer an option” in the face of unsustainable use of natural resources, growing urbanisation, social inequalities, losses and damages from extreme events and the legacy of a pandemic. Verified data.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 25, 2023

They are saying: show me your approach; show me your partnerships; show me your net zero commitments,” he says. “SWFs’ priorities vary by geography, but overall, they are keen to see evidence from their teams and their managers around sustainability in action.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In January, an investor-led initiative was launched to address systemic risks in the mining sector to ensure a just transition to net zero, partly in reaction to a string of mining-related disasters that have generated despair and distrust from local communities and untold environmental damage.

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