We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Will a company’s investment take it a step closer towards a net zero world, or will it be a stranded asset tomorrow? What are the barriers to action? These disclosures can help identify policy, incentives and tools that close the gap between corporate ambition and action. .

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. . The post Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

So let’s set the record straight: these shareholder resolutions call for banks to adopt responsible guardrails for transition financing, and to insure against both greenwashing and over-exposure to risky lending practices. Proponents of the resolutions acknowledge the near-term need for fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

For investors and companies with assets within those key biodiversity areas, this raises the issue of stranded assets. Regulators in APAC and beyond increasingly are alert to the risks of greenwashing, imposing new requirements to ensure that the contents of sustainable funds justify their labels and marketing claims.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2023

We’re talking stranded assets, almost certainly, within the timeframe it would take to build out CCUS capacity.” CCUS is “a dead end” that simply allows fossil fuel companies to “hit the snooze button on transition”, he said.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

The taskforce will also consider guidance on avoiding greenwashing strategies, and the simplification of assessing, comparing and interpreting transition plans. . Wartmann emphasises the importance of ensuring transition plans are aligned with companies’ audited financial statements. . “

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The article took a full six years to finalize after the wider agreement was adopted, with international negotiators expressing grave concern about the risk of greenwashing and human rights violations, particularly for Indigenous and other local communities in the world’s poorest countries. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Risk of stranded assets . Committing to align with the IEA and UNEP FI frameworks but failing to fulfil recommendations will invite accusations of greenwashing, a clear reputational risk for the banks,”? at Trillium Asset Management.? “In said Kate Monahan, Director of Shareholder Advocacy?at

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And there are wider issues around the VCMs already in operation, such as credit pricing, third-party verification and reducing the risk of greenwashing. . While the ETA will offer a “fixed price” for corporates, there are concerns that too low a price could reduce the quality of the credits and expose the market to greenwashing risk. .

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 4, 2022

The European Commission attempted to bury news of its last-minute move which jeopardises the EU’s Green Deal and greenwashes fossil fuels, Transport & Environment (T&E) says. Originally published on Transport & Environment.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Part 1 of the interview focused on Assaad’s career history and then 5 top greenwashing topics. Part 2, below, starts with a discussion about stranded assets and then resumes Assaad’s list of greenwashing topics. […].

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