Greenwashing Net Zero Social Sustainability 
Chris Hall
JANUARY 10, 2025
The answers to these questions will be shaped by the regulatory requirements faced by investors, including their fiduciary duties, their disclosure requirements, and the need to avoid greenwashing.
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Issuance volumes for SLBs were particularly weak in the second half of the year, as issuers faced scrutiny of the credibility and robustness of their linked sustainability targets, as well as the sector’s exposure to high-yield issuance. A more supportive policy environment, such as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S.
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ESG Today
APRIL 27, 2023
Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded strongly in Q1 2023, resuming double-digit growth trends after falling 18% in 2022, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service. trillion in 2021.
Chris Hall
MAY 31, 2024
Same direction, different pace – This week saw several steps toward a world in which sustainability is fully integrated into business and investment decisions, but perhaps none more significant than updated evidence and guidance on jurisdictions adopting common disclosure standards. In that respect, the picture is still somewhat mixed.
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Protected status for ESG investment products could mark the beginning of the end for greenwashing for UK investors. Before long, any asset manager thinking of slapping a ‘sustainable’ or ‘ESG’ label on its investment products for UK clients should think twice – at least. It thinks there is a problem about greenwashing.”.
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
In recent weeks, Bloomberg has announced the launch of the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Green, Social, Sustainability Bond Indices , while MSCI unveiled a suite of indices under the Climate Action banner. Elsewhere, it added, index providers should supply net-zero aligned benchmarks and asset owners should use them.
Chris Hall
AUGUST 31, 2022
Since then, heatwaves across the northern hemisphere, gathering energy and food security crises, and climate policy actions across the globe, notably in the US , have raised new questions about the path to a net zero economy – alongside concerns about the impact of inflation, disruption and transition on existing economic and social inequities.
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