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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Singapore Unveils Disclosure Rules for ESG Funds to Reduce Greenwashing Risk. Guest Post: Combatting Greenwashing. Moody’s Expands ESG Credit Impact Scores to Cover Healthcare, Agriculture, Transport & Logistics Companies. ECB, ESRB Report Finds Climate Shocks Can Spread Quickly Across Banks, Companies, Financial System.

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This tracking company wants to sell sustainability

Stacey Higginbotham

At $14, such a tracker could easily become part of the insurance offered by logistics companies for B2B shipments, and even consumer shipping. Rand McNally is also a customer, using the tracker almost as a canary in a coal mine to understand where disruptions in its logistics business might arise.

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Aviation is plotting a sustainable course

GreenBiz

Last year, Amazon Air, logistics arm of the online retailer, said it plans to buy 6 million gallons of SAF via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy. . But offsetting is seen as transitional — and controversial: Some critics view it as greenwash. Neste is working with Lufthansa, Finnair and KLM on sustainable fuel programs.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

While biodegradable plastics currently exist, they rely on commercial composting, which uses energy to heat the compost, as well as presenting other logistical challenges. Such bioplastics have effectively been ‘greenwashed’, he said, and mis-sold to environmentally responsible consumers and companies.

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The Member-Client Guide to the EU Taxonomy: A Preview of SR Inc.’s Full Member Advisory

Sustainable Round Table

C, the European Commission wanted to ensure that companies currently engaged in greenwashing are discouraged, and those making real positive environmental impact are properly credited (this effort is built upon by another recent EU legislative proposal to prevent greenwashing in regard to physical product sustainability).

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Despite geopolitical challenges, organisations are ramping up to meet sustainability targets, says Capgemini report

Envirotec Magazine

. “Furthermore, even as organisations ramp up sustainability initiatives, consumers are more skeptical than ever about corporate sustainability, as more than half believe that organisations are greenwashing their sustainability initiatives, up from 33% in 2023.”

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More Data is Not the Answer: Why We Need to Reset Our Expectations for Impact Measurement and Management

James Militzer

The rise in expectations from impact data Rarely does a month go by without an organisation being accused of greenwashing, purplewashing, bluewashing or rainbow washing. And we must act intentionally, because alongside the positive trends, there are some threats as well.