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Over Half of CFOs Fear Greenwashing Risk as Sustainability Data Problems Persist: EY Survey

ESG Today

Velislava Ivanova, EY Global Strategy and Markets Leader, Climate Change & Sustainability Services, said: “My experience is that finance leaders are primarily concerned about the lack of rigorous, data-enabled reporting. But Finance comes at it from a different angle.

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First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action?

GreenBiz

I’ve spoken to many corporate sustainability professionals that say they don’t publicize their climate commitments. Because yahoos such as me write critical columns about how they’re greenwashing or failing to do enough. Or environmental campaigns target them for hypocrisy. .

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Guest Post: What Will Sustainability 2.0 Look Like?

ESG Today

Over the last two decades, sustainability has undoubtedly helped to introduce “greener” business practices, but many would argue that these have been largely incremental, from boosting energy efficiency to building trust with consumers and regulators. will look like relates to the role of sustainability professionals.

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Appeal of AI in ESG Analysis Grows

Chris Hall

The latter offers an end-to-end sustainability reporting solution, which can generate reports for all major sustainability frameworks. The company also has a Controversy Detection System , which includes a LLM that generates four controversies scores, E, S, G and greenwashing, with explanations.

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Demand for AI in ESG Analysis Accelerates

Chris Hall

The latter offers an end-to-end sustainability reporting solution, which can generate reports for all major sustainability frameworks. The company also has a Controversy Detection System , which includes a LLM that generates four controversies scores, E, S, G and greenwashing, with explanations.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

There’s a lot of talk about greenwashing with all of these financial institutions pledging to meet net-zero by 2050 … I am working to get financial institutions to actually take action on their net-zero commitments.” Since then, she’s risen in the ranks as a sustainability professional and ESG manager in the financial industry.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

As such, net-zero could soon be in the crosshairs of activists eager to point out corporate greenwash. That is, no single standard governs the way net-zero is defined or measured, or how it should be communicated. Help could be on the way. Oh, and the advent of a new U.S.

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