2001 Climate Change Greenwashing 
Corporate Knights
JULY 14, 2022
The precedent made it easy for corporations to exclude almost any proposal from their proxy circulars until 2001, when this clause was eliminated as part of a broader set of Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) reforms. Do you feel corporate greenwashing has increased or decreased from the 1970s and ’80s?
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Unless you are oblivious to your surroundings, it’s hard to not be aware of the already catastrophic effects climate change is having on our lives. Whether you were born in 2001 or 1951, we can all act and turn this ship around. Each new year is bringing an increase in catastrophes and extreme weather events. It’s not the case.
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Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
To take one UK-based example, when FTSE4Good was launched in 2001, a pioneering benchmark for socially responsible investing (SRI), the focus was on carbon emissions. Not to be left out, S&P Global launched “a new family of climate-focused market benchmarks”. Kuh said that the issue of greenwashing is being addressed.
Just Capital
JUNE 2, 2022
When Jack Welch retired as chairman and CEO of General Electric in 2001, he ended a 20-year tenure that took GE from a valuation of $14 billion to $600 billion, making it the most valuable company in the world. Under Gary Gensler, the SEC is very clearly working to reduce and also police “greenwashing.” (Chris Hondros/Getty Images).
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 23, 2024
Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences. British Petroleum paved the way.
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