Sustainability Update

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Report on every environmental initiative and face allegations of greenwashing? Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Yet, it is difficult to let go of the fear of being called a dreaded greenwasher.

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Greenwashing Waste Development Climate Change 59

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. Addressing the UN General Assembly in 2022, Secretary-General António Guterres took aim at the “massive PR machine raking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny.”

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Greenwashing Net Zero Climate Change Digitalization 338

3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

Consumers are now rightly attuned to potential greenwashing; in response, brands are becoming too precautionary and restrictive in their approach to sustainability communications. Brand Finance’s Strategy & Sustainability Director, Robert Haigh , commented, “Brands have to strike a fine balance when communicating about sustainability.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“The plastic crisis is too large and imminent to be solved by a single solution or mechanism,” and credits are only part of the problem, according to Verra , a nonprofit that started in 2007 by creating verification systems for carbon credits, and more recently branched into verifying plastic credits. But] this is not greenwashing at all.

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Greenwashing Waste Supply Chains Supply Chain 260

3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

Many investors are already familiar with green bonds, which have been on the market since 2007. Importantly, investors should be sure that the issuer’s projects are genuinely environmentally beneficial and not misrepresented, or “greenwashed.” KPIs must be chosen and calibrated carefully.

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Green Bonds Greenwashing Development Climate Change 130

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Schleimer’s own awakening came when she entered academia to teach innovation strategy and realized, even in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007/2008, that textbooks on the subject were still promoting the “red ocean thinking” of cutthroat competition, compromised value and low cost. Schleimer opted to teach without textbooks.

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Greenwashing Chief Sustainability Officer Corporate Social Responsibility Academics 294

Sustainability Matters

JULY 17, 2022

But it took the financial crisis of 2007 to turn the spotlight on excessive risk and expose whole industries to accusations of corruption and greed. It aims to eliminate the “greenwashing” of financial products and advice and steer investments towards a sustainable economy by enabling informed financial decisions.

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Paris Agreement Net Zero Climate Change Supply Chains 40