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Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29?

Corporate Knights

The climate plans of both companies, like those of the majority of the fossil fuel industry, are incompatible with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement between nations to keep global heating “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 The post Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29? This article was first published on DeSmog.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing. RELATED Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29?

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Major investor alliance working to clean up greenwash lurking in ESG

Corporate Knights

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. Mary Robinson, the Canadian Responsible Investment Association Accusations of greenwashing grew along with this expansion.

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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

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The concept of net zero goes back nearly a decade, in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 climate conference in Paris. Is net zero greenwash? The term is used to greenwash business-as-usual or even business-more-than-usual," it continued. "At Some think so.

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How these oil and gas players are undermining climate action in Canada

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Earlier this month, Environmental Defence launched its “Canada’s climate villains” campaign , using graphic-novelesque illustrations and monikers like “Toxic Traitor” and “Ruthless Greenwasher.

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Corporate ‘greenwashing’ poses growing threat to ESG goals: report

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Sustainability-related financing has tripled since 2015, with a tenfold increase in flows to environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds, an eight-fold increase in sustainable debt issuance and a doubling in the value of ESG-related deals by private equity and venture capital firms, according to a report by Generation Investment Management.…

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UN chief urges ban on advertising from fossil fuel companies, the 'godfathers of climate chaos'

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The new forecast from the WMO suggests that the speed at which the planet is warming has accelerated since 2015, when there was a near zero chance of such an event occurring. These ads are textbook cases of greenwashing, right down to the colour of the ads,” said Dr. Melissa Lem, a Vancouver family physician and the president of CAPE. “We