Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2024

They argue that this country could actually take credit for some of those Asian GHG reductions under Article 6 of the 2015 Paris climate treaty, which allows for bilateral emissions trading. Essentially, Article 6 has become a green fig leaf to greenwash LNG exports.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. A 2015 report from the U.S. where the tighter definitions have been felt most. “We

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.

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ESG Today

JUNE 8, 2023

The report follows several years of increasing ESG AUM in private markets, rising from around $600 billion in 2015 to $1.1 were also found to be strongly in favor of the development of a “US Taxonomy,” similar to those underway in the EU and UK, to help identify sustainable economic activities and help avoid greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Inclusion of coal in green taxonomy would border on state-sanctioned greenwashing, says Christina Ng, Research & Stakeholder Engagement Leader, Debt Markets, and Putra Adhiguana, Energy Technologies Research Lead, Asia, at IEEFA. Not only would national credibility be hurt, but the move might also border on state-sanctioned greenwashing.

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ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2024

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

In this paper, we describe our process for assessing ESG-labeled bonds and show that, by systematically applying this framework, investors can help set a gold standard for the market, avoid surprises from controversy and greenwashing, and potentially generate more alpha over time. Less Greenwashing Can Mean More Alpha.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

billion in climate-related blended finance between 2015 and 2022, but more is needed. The World Bank, for example, has committed to allocating 45% of its capital to climate-related transactions. MDBs provided about US$5.5

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In December 2015, as a response to increasingly frequent environmental disasters that disrupted ecosystems and human health — plus caused unforeseen business losses and jeopardized assets and infrastructure — the Financial Stability Board launched the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

It had, however, quietly dropped a call for agriculture to curb non-CO2 emissions by at least 30%, compared to 2015, by 2040. A few weeks later, the European Commission recommended ambitious new greenhouse gas emissions cuts.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

It was a revelation reminiscent of Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions reduction scandal. In some instances, they may amount to so-called ‘greenwashing’ with consumers effectively being deluded into thinking their ‘energy efficient’ home represents a better outcome for the environment.”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

C warming target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and there must be a “rapid acceleration of mitigation efforts after 2030” if there is any hope of limiting global temperature increases to 2°C. . According to scientists who compiled the report, the world will this century hurtle past the 1.5°C

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

From shady, non-scientific brokers looking to make a quick buck, to corporate offset pledges that amount to nothing more than greenwashing, a few bad actors in the Voluntary Carbon Market are casting a negative light on everyone. With growing interest and investment in the carbon market comes increased scrutiny, and for good reason.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the weeds One of the most comprehensive studies of ESG fund performance was conducted by Rockefeller Asset Management and NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Researchers analysed evidence from over 1,000 studies published between 2015-20 (most were written before 2015).

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

We invite you to submit your own cases (and teaching notes) by March 31, 2023: You can view the submission requirements here , and any questions can be sent to info@wdi-publishing.com Volkswagen’s Clean Diesel Dilemma (Published 3.1.2016) On September 18, 2015, the U.S.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. As responsible investors search for the most sustainable companies to back, the outcomes of these debates could not be more important for global efforts to rapidly cut emissions.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

They also noted the due diligence aspects of a framework that must now be implemented by all federal departments and agencies in line with the targets in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. A government source pointed to a provision for regular reviews of the subsidy policy as an important opportunity to ratchet up restrictions over time.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

Addressing greenwashing. According to SBTI’s 2020 progress report , firms that had set science-based targets had so far reduced combined emissions by 25% since 2015, totalling 203 million tonnes of CO2. However, when it comes to net-zero, there is little understanding of what it means for the finance industry.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 5, 2023

The TCFD’s aim is to provide financial institutions, investors and other stakeholders with consistent, reliable, and comparable information about the financial risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Satoshi Ikeda, Chief Sustainable Finance Officer at the FSA and Co-chair of the IOSCO workstream that developed the recommendations, says: “We’ve been trying to lead industry and financial sector discussions on [climate change] since the Paris Climate Accord was signed [in 2015].

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2024

Inconsistency and Greenwashing Across the sector, the report cites inconsistent asset disclosure, lack of transparency around fossil fuel investments, and what it calls the “obfuscation” of terms like “green assets” and “transition assets” as factors that make it “nearly impossible” to assess pension funds’ performance.

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ESG Today

JULY 19, 2023

By Michelle T Davies, EY Global Sustainability Legal Services Leader, and Ben Taylor, EY Global Strategy and Markets Leader, Climate Change and Sustainability Services When the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) launched in 2015, its primary aim was to prevent a potential meltdown in the financial markets.

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Steven Mintz

MARCH 8, 2022

A 2015 Nielsen  report  found that 73% of the Millennial generation was willing to pay more for sustainable goods. However, companies might try to skip it and take on the aesthetic of a sustainable company without making any changes, a practice known as greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This overtook the Marinara dam disaster as Brazil’s most catastrophic environmental event, which killed 19 people and destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues in 2015. McMurdo anticipates more such rebellions this year, which he says reflects the pervasive greenwashing evident in net zero plans.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These are the reported findings of Smoke and Mirrors, a new investigation from the Changing Markets Foundation and UKWIN, which says it has exposed greenwashing from Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK). viii] Center for International Environmental Law (2015) Plastic & climate: The hidden costs of a plastic planet. Available at: [link].

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Policymakers are working toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015, to be achieved by 2030. Indeed, one of the greatest challenges in sustainable finance is how to be sure whether an operation or investment is actually sustainable or simply greenwashing.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This has fueled confusion and accusations of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Dimson, Karakas & Li (2015) , Barko, Cremers & Renneboog (2021) , and Bauer, Terwall & Tissen (2022) all found positive market reactions to ESG engagements in their samples. Shareholder advocacy and engagement has certainly not been spared from the broader debate around widespread greenwashing in responsible investing.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Countries signed up to the Paris Agreement of 2015 set out to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. At the same time, the credibility of their climate strategies has been brought into question both by greenwashing scandals and recent analyses of the Paris-alignment of fund offerings. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A new guide from the We Mean Business Coalition, “ The 4 As of Climate Leadership ” defines, in terms of ambition, action, advocacy and accountability, what companies must do to deliver on net-zero commitments and avoid accusations of greenwashing. Ambition: Has the company set the right decarbonization targets?

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Green bond issuance has climbed a sharp trajectory since the 2015 Paris Agreement, up from around US$40 billion that year to a record US$489 billion in 2021, according to Refinitiv. Greenwashing concerns and additional credibility could be achieved by investors doing thorough due diligence on the green bonds.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Impact Investing Principles have been really helpful, especially given the increased scrutiny of funds and concerns over greenwashing. Potential users of our data will ask us for 10 years’ history, but the SDGs were only created in 2015,” he observed. “To

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

However, shortfalls in clean energy investments persist, the IEA said, noting that “if China is excluded, then the amount being invested in clean energy each year in [EMDEs] has remained flat since the Paris Agreement was concluded in 2015”. C is to remain achievable. .

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B the Change

OCTOBER 8, 2022

billion metric tons of plastic waste generated between 1950 and 2015, only about 9% of it has been recycled. So if chemical recycling is not the solution, why do so many proposed EPR policies greenwash the plastic-to-fuel processes as recycling? Greenwashing Groups? s plastic waste converted into new products in 2021.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

After the signature of the Paris Agreement in 2015, science has become widely accepted. Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. Why should a company be net-zero?

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