Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

along with ongoing corporate greenwashing and fossil-fuel disinformation, it’s sometimes hard to tell if society is moving forward or slipping back. Between July 1, 2016, and January 15, 2024, Clean200 companies generated a total return of 103.5%. You follow the money, of course. through those years. through those years. dollars.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The country has had six presidents and several overhauls of congress since 2016. Some critics of the debt-for-nature and debt-for-climate concept — which was first introduced in the 1980s — warned that combining debt-related issues and climate initiatives isn’t always the right solution for some countries and could lead to “greenwashing.”

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3BL Media

JULY 17, 2024

Its growth has escalated since 2016, as the demand for carbon credits by private actors outside of regulated regimes continues to rise. This disconnect between offsetting and real-world impact has led to many organizations receiving PR blowback, accusations of greenwashing, and even lawsuits for achieving less carbon impact than they report.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Further, a lack of transparency around why a fund has been re-labelled as sustainable and the impact the new label has on the fund’s environmental-related characteristics or performance can ignite greenwashing concerns. The first strategy Ossiam switched to sustainable was the Ossiam Minimum Variance strategy in 2016, says Lacroix.

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Stacey Higginbotham

AUGUST 22, 2023

I started this business in 2016 after leaving my role as senior editor at Fortune , and many people questioned my decision to leave an established publication to create my own. But I wanted to really dig into the issues that would arise when we added computing to everything, be it technological or social. I love technology.

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Sustainability Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Greenwashing harms brand value and can undermine credibility, creating scepticism around recycled content claims. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has prioritised greenwashing as a significant compliance priority. Minimising the consumption of virgin resources can save water and energy and reduce pollution.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, ESG investing grew 143% between 2016 and 2020. Regulations are aimed at a number of outcomes: Reducing corporate greenwashing and creating transparency around corporate sustainability activities. A quarter of all sustainable investing is through ESG integrated funds , far outpacing all other sustainable investment strategies.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

billion of the total – three times the 2016 level. The number of exchanges offering green bonds has increased from eight in 2016 to 34 in 2023, with a number listing a range of labelled bonds including social, sustainability-linked , green sukuk and gender-linked bonds. Importantly, adaptation finance accounted for US$32.4

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B the Change

JULY 31, 2022

Some key statistics: There was a 71% increase in Google searches for sustainable goods between 2016 and 2021, according to WWF. For example, since 2016, WWF found a 45% increase in food, cosmetic, and natural pharmaceutical companies that have committed to protecting biodiversity in their sourcing practices.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Worst sort of greenwashing One aspect, she says, is highlighted by drawing a dividing line between the oil and gas industry on the one hand and other sectors that have lobbied on climate action issues, such as steel, chemicals and cars. Oil and gas overplayed their hand,” she says. This COP has put us in an interesting place.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016. Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Poland and France were the first governments to issue green bonds in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Labelled bonds can stand accused of ‘greenwashing’ if a robust sustainable framework is not in place. We expect more countries to follow. Rapid growth in GSSS issuance doesn’t come without challenges for investors.

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B the Change

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Lemonade took the first route and decided to go public in 2020, having gained certification in 2016. In the race to attract these sustainable shoppers, empty slogans and greenwashing campaigns are no longer viable options to draw an informed public. Since going public, the insurance revolutionary has seen its revenue continue to grow.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s a lot of talk about greenwashing with all of these financial institutions pledging to meet net-zero by 2050 … I am working to get financial institutions to actually take action on their net-zero commitments.” that works to phase out global coal power generation.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

According to van der Heijden, AI covers the “full gamut” of current ESG teams’ workload, adding that companies “sitting on their hands” with regards to AI adoption risk being “left behind”. Briink develops generative AI technology solutions for ESG teams, primarily within the asset management industry.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

And a 2021 report from The Economist found that global online searches for sustainable goods had increased by 71% between 2016 and 2020. However, despite this positive shift in consumer investment choices, a considerable portion of these ETFs are blatant greenwashing and lack meaningful environmental impact.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

In 2016 he founded Sustainix, an independent research and analytics consultancy aimed at advising and supporting financial services companies in incorporating climate conscious and sustainable investment principles in their investment and engagement practices.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2016 the earth’s average temperature was the warmest since recordkeeping began in 1880. This has fueled confusion and accusations of greenwashing. That record was matched in 2020. The scientific community holds strongly recommends that the average global temperature increase must be limited to increase be limited to 1.5 °C

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

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. . European banks have financed upstream oil and gas expansion by more than US$400 billion since 2016, ShareAction research has found.

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3BL Media

JULY 23, 2024

In 2016, after many years of hard work, we got something known as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which essentially means every country in the world signed onto this amendment to the Montreal Protocol. That allows us as a society to figure out solutions because as we it is challenging.

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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. Subtly, the onus of carbon reduction was shifted from the company onto the consumer. As climate awareness grew, Big Oil’s advertising budgets exploded.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. This story originally appeared in Mongabay and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. What is agroforestry?"

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

COP27 also saw the first fruits of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ efforts to rid the finance and corporate sectors of greenwashing through increased scrutiny of net zero commitments. Announced by Guterres in Glasgow, the UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities?

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The arrival of a strong El Niño , which the planet hadn’t seen since 2016, the previous record-holder for hottest year. The trend of greenhushing has emerged as governments from California to the European Union are crafting regulations to counter false advertising around sustainability (often called “greenwashing”).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A different approach Wold Nilsen created Storebrand’s ESG Plus climate fund range strategy in 2016. Yet everyone wants a proof statement so that investors, asset owners and producers of funds can all say that they are Paris aligned in their annual report and can’t be accused of greenwashing,” he added.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Net-zero campaigns also spur well-intentioned, yet harmful, investments in greenwashed technologies , such as carbon capture tech, which are fossil-fuel and energy intensive and emit more carbon than they take away , undermining the central premise of net-zero. This summer’s West Virginia v. There are many groups leading this work.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Since the Paris Agreement, Canadian bank investments in fossil fuels havent significantly changed, Brooks notes, with the Big Five banks funnelling nearly $1 trillion into the industry between 2016 and 2023, according to Stand.earth. Slow-walking on climate action is really the new climate denialism, he says.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

As revealed by the Mueller Report, Russian disinformation played a prominent role in helping to elect the disgraced former president in 2016. Putin has been silencing critics including environmental activists for years. Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov was murdered for reporting on environmental destruction.

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