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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Theme: Navigating the energy transition Register today Thursday 14 November 2024 11:30am – 1:00pm (GMT+4) | Greenwashing: Are your green claims robust enough to withstand scrutiny and avoid greenwashing accusations? With sustainability and transparency at the forefront of the business landscape, the issue of greenwashing has emerged.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

This cannot continue if we are realistically going to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global warming below 1.5 ° C. Getting those details right will be critical if they are to support Canada’s climate goals and tackle rampant greenwashing in the financial sector.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. Is net zero greenwash? The term is used to greenwash business-as-usual or even business-more-than-usual," it continued. "At Some think so.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

The expert panel’s assessment will include how low-carbon-transition efforts by corporations and sub-national governments align with national commitments made under the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit average increase in temperatures to 1.5°C.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 17, 2022

In recent years, they have added visions for how climate change might be addressed, including scenarios that they claim are consistent with the international … Continue reading Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.".

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ESG Today

MAY 6, 2024

According to the HKMA, the feedback received indicated that stakeholders welcomed the classification system, which could help deliver a clearer definition of green products, enhance interoperability, and reduce the risk of greenwashing.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling comes as financial institutions and other companies increasingly face regulatory scrutiny over greenwashing concerns. Earlier this year, the CEO of Deutsche Bank’s investment arm DWS resigned after police raided the firms’ Frankfurt offices as part of an investigation into greenwashing allegations.

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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

MARCH 1, 2024

Inconsistency and Greenwashing Across the sector, the report cites inconsistent asset disclosure, lack of transparency around fossil fuel investments, and what it calls the “obfuscation” of terms like “green assets” and “transition assets” as factors that make it “nearly impossible” to assess pension funds’ performance.

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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 Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Greenwashing is on the rise since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and regulators, investors, and consumers are on the lookout for companies’ potentially misleading claims about their sustainability work. Read the full story at Waste360.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Signatories agree to implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement. Because yahoos such as me write critical columns about how they’re greenwashing or failing to do enough. I’ve spoken to many corporate sustainability professionals that say they don’t publicize their climate commitments.

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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

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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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The document also holds out the possibility of subsidies for carbon trading deals under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, and for Indigenous participation in fossil fuel projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The funding enables Permutable to combine the latest machine learning technology with Permutable’s knowledge of changing carbon emission trends to help governments and companies address the urgent sustainability issues exemplified by the current climate crisis, achieve net-zero emissions globally, and avoid greenwashing.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 28, 2024

To stimulate vivid debate, expert-led clinic sessions that explained key issues in carbon markets were followed by an Oxford-style debate in the late afternoon. Carbon markets continue to garner significant interest in Kenya, where the government is currently developing a ‘Carbon Credit Trading and Benefit Sharing Bill’.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“If the UK is to attract the capital needed to lead the global transition to a more sustainable future, creating jobs and economic prosperity, we must build investor confidence, address greenwashing risks, and tackle more of the UK’s underlying investment barriers. The Chancellor didn’t go far enough.”

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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. While SFDR was designed to avoid greenwashing, it has not achieved its objective.

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Andreas Rache

MAY 24, 2022

To reach the commitments of the Paris agreement, the European commission has introduced new regulations as the first step of the EU action plan: the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The first level was already implemented on March 10 th 2021.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2024

“However, compared to the findings of our inaugural report, we are disappointed to see only incremental progress; Canada’s pension sector is still not on a pathway aligned with the Paris Agreement,” said Britt Runeckles, Pensions Campaigner at Shift, a charity which engages with pension funds and their beneficiaries on climate issues.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Regulation will never be sufficient to protect investors from greenwashing, says Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, EVP at RepRisk. While this is to be encouraged as a step toward the transition to a more sustainable future, focused around lower-carbon economies, this same pressure has also led to an uptick in greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

To prove his point, Usher notes the investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into greenwashing allegations made in the Wall Street Journal by a former executive of asset management firm DWS. 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

MARCH 3, 2023

BSI’s standard for sustainable finance is also aligned with the Paris Agreement and the UN SDGs. Townsend explained that all ISO standards are set to align with the Paris Agreement as a result of the ‘London Declaration’ in 2021.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The suit marks the latest in a series of shareholder and legal challenges to face Shell over its energy transition strategy, including a complaint filed earlier this month to the SEC by advocacy group Global Witness accusing the company of greenwashing by misleading investors about the amount of investment it is directing towards renewable energy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

But measures to support the goals of the Paris Agreement must now sit alongside those needed to realise the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). In anticipation of the NCQG, the OECD released an analysis recommending use of public sector interventions to directly or indirectly finance climate action.

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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

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

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To be truly robust, bank rules would need to mandate climate transition plans that include criteria cutting support to fossil fuel development, identify a clear definition of greenwashing and minimum criteria on all sustainability-themed products, funds and ratings, and introduce capital requirements for fossil fuel assets.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 23, 2024

Despite many Australian organisations committing resolutely to new ESG standards, they face hurdles in achieving their objectives due to data challenges within the supply chain, which can inadvertently lead to unintended greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Worst sort of greenwashing One aspect, she says, is highlighted by drawing a dividing line between the oil and gas industry on the one hand and other sectors that have lobbied on climate action issues, such as steel, chemicals and cars. InfluenceMap was founded in 2015 ahead of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

The two ratios are expected to create pressure for banks to adopt more sustainable business strategies and help stamp out greenwashing.

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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.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A recent report by the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) forecasts that climate policy will continue to accelerate, driven in part by the twin Paris Agreement Global Stocktake/Ratchet cycles between now and 2030. C in the Paris Agreement; with only 3% of global policies currently moving towards the 1.5°C

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