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. Elsewhere, it added, index providers should supply net-zero aligned benchmarks and asset owners should use them. Review, renew.

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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).

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. There is still no regulatory consensus, for instance, on what conditions have to be met to label something “climate-neutral” or “net-zero.”

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