What to know about Europe's new anti-greenwashing laws
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Supply chain transparency is crucial to building consumer trust in the face of greenwashing.
Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?
GreenBiz
JULY 15, 2021
Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking? Some boards approve, some feel comfortable doing so and are hoping for the best; others are afraid to be called out on greenwashing but approve them anyway, because "everyone else" are setting goals. Supply chains are, and will likely be, more disrupted "than normal." Pull Quote.
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Is the burgeoning 'plastic credits' market a new wave of greenwashing?
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 19, 2023
rePurpose says it “collects chain-of-custody documentation from all stakeholders involved in the supply chain. Greenwashing risk Critics see plastic credit systems as little more than window dressing, giving firms an excuse to continue making and using plastic rather than finding alternatives.
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Over Half of Companies Potentially Greenwashing Says Australia Competition Regulator
ESG Today
MARCH 6, 2023
Australia’s competition regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said that it will be investigating companies for potential greenwashing, after it conducted a study that found concerning environmental or sustainability-related claims from over half of businesses reviewed.
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India Proposes Supply Chain ESG Disclosure, ESG Investing Rules
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Noting that investors and other stakeholders will be increasingly relying on these reports, SEBI’s consultation paper said that “assurance becomes key for enhancing credibility of disclosure and investor confidence,” and that more transparency is required in the supply chains of reporting companies.
A look at the secret world where our waste ends up
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The supply chain that takes apart our stuff is sometimes just as complicated as the ones making them in the first place,” he said. The supply chain that takes apart our stuff is sometimes just as complicated as the ones making them in the first place.
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What Are the Business Risks Associated With Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy?
3BL Media
AUGUST 25, 2022
An audit will reveal gaps and opportunities, which may lead to recommendations for new investments, supply chain shifts, searches for different vendors and more. Lack of visibility and perceptions of “greenwashing”. No one should mistake these energy transition commitments as short-term, passing endeavors.
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Investors, Businesses to Increase ESG Investment Despite Greenwashing Scrutiny & Political Pushback: Bloomberg Survey
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
More than 90% of executives and investors agreed that “AI is a friend of ESG,” with top cited benefits including better data estimation, improved supply chain traceability, and the ability to track controversies.
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New York Launches Greenwashing Suit Against World’s Largest Beef Producer JBS
ESG Today
MARCH 6, 2024
We will cut our own emissions by 30% in 2030 and eliminate Amazon deforestation from our supply chain within five years.” “JBS JBS USA’s greenwashing exploits the pocketbooks of everyday Americans and the promise of a healthy planet for future generations. Bacon, chicken wings, and steak with net zero emissions.
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Blockchain vs. Greenwashing: Why Emissions Reporting is Pointless Without Verifiable Data
James Militzer
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
But Scope 3 emissions are much more complex, as they encapsulate the environmental impact of a company’s entire supply chain. However, it’s difficult to gather reliable data on these emissions, and without solid evidence, this reporting can be an exercise in greenwashing.
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How EHS&S Can Partner With Marketing for an Authentic Brand Sustainability Message
3BL Media
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Since the environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings used in the investment world are contingent on not only your business meeting sustainability requirements but also the sustainability of your supply chain, sustainable marketing can increase your visibility to both investors and those seeking more sustainable supply chain opportunities.
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Global Trade and Climate Change Will Impact U.S. Grocery Bills—Fairtrade America Offers Key Strategies for 2025
3BL Media
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Only when climate change adaptation at the farm level becomes a shared responsibility across the supply chain will global market prices stand a chance of stabilizing. Supply chains are global. This is a challenge because concern for greenwashing has grown alongside rates of general corporate distrust. Even if U.S.
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EcoVadis Named a Leader in ESG Ratings, Data, And Analytics Report
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
EcoVadis has a long track record helping major manufacturers like Henkel, Husqvarna, and PSA Group drive sustainability in their supply chains, reflected in the breadth of private companies EcoVadis has ESG data for and its many integrations with supply chain software.”. “As
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Sustainable Apparel Coalition Joins Global Net Zero Workshop
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
He noted that environmental footprint labels may not be as effective to drive positive change up the supply chain, and referenced a 2020 Compare Ethics study which found that only 20 percent of consumers trust eco labels.
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Time to Face our Challenges Head-on
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.
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RepRisk Launches New ESG Due Diligence Scores to Assess Companies’ Specific Sustainability Risks
ESG Today
JUNE 5, 2024
Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, Chief Commercial Officer at RepRisk, said: “For a long time, banks, investors, and businesses have been searching for readily deployable thematic risk metrics to streamline their due diligence processes when making financing or investment decisions, engaging new suppliers, or expanding operations.
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AI start-up aims to predict if the world can really avoid a long-term increase in global climate temperature
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Most large company carbon emissions come from their supply chains and the SMEs in them. Supply chain emissions are on average 11 times higher than those produced by a corporation’s own direct activity, according to CDP.
Greenwashing, From the Eighties till Today (Part 2)
Sense and Sustainability
MARCH 3, 2021
Editor’s note : This is the second of two articles published concerning greenwashing, both historically and at present. What are the Alternatives to Greenwashing? How to Avoid Greenwashing? Groups that validate a company’s sustainability claims can highlight truly effective initiatives while leaving greenwashers behind.
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Solving The Unsolved Mystery: How To Tackle ESG Targets, Reporting, And More!
3BL Media
AUGUST 19, 2022
Sustainable and responsible sourcing: Supply chain diversity has been readily adopted by companies in recent years, but what about carbon, water, waste, and other elements of ESG that companies still need to tackle with their suppliers? What work do you have left to attain a sustainable and responsible supply chain?
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Creating a More Sustainable World With SAP's Focus on Green Customer Experiences
3BL Media
JULY 19, 2022
Connecting demand – supply chain – and delivery is the first step, but evolving a great customer experience takes it a step further and puts sustainability front and center. Many organizations are implementing technology to connect commerce, marketing, sales, and service data in order to create engaging customer experiences (CX).
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First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action?
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
In a separate announcement, Walmart joined forces with Schneider Electric to "educate Walmart suppliers about renewable energy" and accelerate deployment with the aim of removing a gigaton of carbon from its supply chain (aka Scope 3 emissions). . Google committed to becoming powered by clean energy — in real time — by 2030. .
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Guest Post: Six Steps Leaders Can Take to Accelerate Their Sustainability Transformation Efforts
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The United Nations Global Compact says that within social sustainability, there are four main audiences that organizations must consider: employees, customers, supply chain workers, and local communities. In fact, 50% of Gen Z consumers believe that organizations or brands are greenwashing.
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Beyond Bamboo is Unlocking Virtual Doors for Eco Conscious Consumers
3BL Media
MAY 3, 2022
The global hub is helping to accelerate the move towards more conscious consumerism by giving consumers confidence when purchasing planet-friendly items without them having to conduct research or face a barrage of greenwashing.
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Defining Purpose: Any Road Will Take You There, If You Don't Know Where (or Why) You're Going
3BL Media
APRIL 29, 2022
Greenwashing : Conveying the impression of sustainability or being environmentally friendly to take advantage of the “halo” effect that such actions bring to a company. Investopedia notes that greenwashing is “considered an unsubstantiated claim to deceive consumers into believing a company’s products are environmentally friendly.”
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Recycling charity expands laboratory analysis and other capabilities
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 7, 2023
The group says it believes that the use of LCA can assist with informing evidence-based decisions on product development and design, support supply chain and procurement decisions, track performance over time of packaging changes, improve overall environmental outcomes in line with strategy and policy, and challenge misinformation and greenwash.
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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future
James Militzer
MARCH 2, 2023
Most of these cases can be taught within multiple business disciplines such as leadership, strategic management, supply chains and marketing, to name a few — making them useful tools not only for emerging entrepreneurs themselves, but for the educators who are training them. housing market typically works.
$60m in grants to help boost recycling of hard-to-recycle plastics
Sustainability Matters
JULY 18, 2023
The framework will be designed to help guide businesses in recycled content supply chains to improve traceability of recycled materials. Tracing recycled content is a welcome step that can expose greenwashing, while shining a light on the great work done by Australian recyclers.
Four Tips To Keep Up With Retail Consumer Expectations on ESG and Sustainability
3BL Media
OCTOBER 27, 2022
This includes your retail space, manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, and even your supply chain partners. An impact screening focuses on how each area of your business and your supply chain are impacting people and the planet. We’re not talking about just saying you’re committed.
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ESG Issues to Increase Credit Risk in 2023: Moody’s
ESG Today
JANUARY 10, 2023
Companies in these sectors may face increasing costs of capital as investors and financial institutions begin implementing their own net zero commitments, as well as demand pressures as companies begin scrutinizing their supply chains as efforts to address Scope 3 emissions ramp up.
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A More Meaningful Earth Day Demands Collective Accountability
3BL Media
APRIL 25, 2022
But in the worst-case scenario, it can easily become a vehicle for greenwashing—a marketing push fueled by vague commitments that won’t be mentioned again until next year’s Earth Day. While greenwashing is still far too prevalent, many companies are being recognized [3] for their substantive sustainability efforts.
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Sustainability in Packaging: Facts Instead of Buzzwords
Sphera
MAY 13, 2022
Aside from the potential environmental impact of their packaging choices, companies should also consider aspects like social sustainability, supply chain resilience and packaging functionality.?. For example, McDonald’s was accused of greenwashing when it replaced plastic straws with a more “environmentally friendly” alternative.
Guest Post: The Role of Climate Risk Planning
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Extreme weather events and long-term climatic changes threaten to degrade organizations’ physical assets and disrupt their supply chains. Climate change is an existential risk to businesses.
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Edelman’s US Head of Sustainability Says CEOs Are Making a Mistake by Giving Into the ‘Greenhushing’ Trend – and Offers an Alternative Approach
Just Capital
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
The client did, however, decide to continue sharing data and updates on its sustainable supply chain initiatives because while they recognized the polarity of climate politics, sustainability was crucial to their company’s success, and they wanted their stakeholders to understand this. What is good for their supply chain?
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Purpose 360 Podcast: Restitching the Fashion Industry With Ethical Clothing
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Additionally, some businesses are trying to convince consumers that their products are more sustainable than they are by using “greenwashing” buzzwords like “zero waste” and “organic.”. And shamefully, 85% of all textiles are disposed of each year.
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ESG’s Fab Five
Chris Hall
MARCH 10, 2023
The metrics are there to create a true culture of sustainability within the companies that use them, so if you are trying to determine which companies are ‘true green’ while others may be greenwashing, ask whether the metrics they follow are driven by that culture of sustainability.
SBTi Clarifies that “No Change Has Been Made” to Use of Carbon Credits in Net Zero Plans Following Backlash
ESG Today
APRIL 16, 2024
In another letter, not seen by ESG Today, but reported by media outlets including Reuters and The Guardian , staff said that it would work against allowing the SBTi to “become a greenwashing platform,” and called for the resignation of the CEO and board member supporting the new policy.
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ESG Global Trends in 2022
3BL Media
APRIL 20, 2022
Markets are favoring those companies that are successfully integrating ESG into their operations including responsible supply chains, while continuously isolating those who do not. If they can’t communicate their sustainability initiatives along with the data to support it they will run the risk of being seen as greenwashing.
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Redefining ‘Business as Usual’: Three Ways to Overcome Barriers to ESG and Climate Finance
James Militzer
MAY 19, 2022
For example, fossil fuel companies have engaged in ever more blatant greenwashing , touting clean energy in their annual reports and strategies but showing little progress in changing their actual business practices. Missing information also contributes to this gap.
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Guest Post: Data, Disclosures and the New Dawn of Leadership
ESG Today
JULY 18, 2023
To provide a complete disclosure, the company will likely leverage existing communication channels or create new channels that allow for open discussions on operational efficiencies, supply chain risks, shifts in customer preferences, and potential disruptions.
Corporate Net Zero Pledges only Add Up to 36% Emissions Reduction: Report
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Sabine Frank, Executive Director of Carbon Market Watch, said: “At a time when corporations need to come clean about their climate impact and shrink their carbon footprint, many are exploiting vague and misleading ‘net zero’ pledges to greenwash their brand while continuing with business as usual.”
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Lack of funding top barrier to sustainability action for 38% of UK businesses
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Against a backdrop of inflation, supply chain issues and a rising cost-of-living, UK leaders are steadfast in their environmental commitments as they view sustainability action as a means to offset economic uncertainty.
The ESG Interview: Closing the Net Zero Reality Gap
Chris Hall
APRIL 7, 2022
Jenkins says companies are central to achieving net zero ambitions, and he would like to see greater collaboration between businesses and across supply chains. . “To We are seeing this collaboration happening at scale because companies are setting science-based targets and demanding that their supply chains do the same.” .
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Guest Post – The Rise of the ESG Controller: Shaping Sustainable Business Practices
ESG Today
APRIL 11, 2024
These risks may include supporting ESG claims (avoiding greenwashing), supply chain disruptions, regulatory changes, and human rights violations.
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Industry Leaders Convene in Dublin for the First The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit Since 2019
3BL Media
JUNE 22, 2022
Several of the sessions served as crash courses on technology poised to become indispensable to the consumer goods industry, including AI tools that can help model the effects of crises on the supply chain; data tools that deliver real-time consumer insights; and diverse applications of Web 3 and the Metaverse.
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