Corporate Knights
JUNE 13, 2023
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. The value of global sustainable investment assets jumped from US$23 trillion in 2016 to US$35 trillion in 2020. In the U.S.,
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 14, 2022
The US SIF says this more cautious approach was at least partly triggered by recent US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposals to crack down on greenwashing by ramping up standards on the names and disclosure requirements for ESG funds. trillion in 2016. Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan grew to US$35.3
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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.
Corporate Knights
APRIL 18, 2024
Since methane breaks down in the atmosphere much sooner than carbon dioxide, which will warm the planet for centuries, an additional metric known as GWP* was proposed by Oxford University scientists in 2016 that factors in methane’s potent short-term impacts, taking 2016 methane emissions as baseline.
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.”
GreenBiz
MARCH 22, 2021
In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N. United Airlines began buying SAF in 2013, and in 2016 became the first airline to use SAF on a continuous basis. But offsetting is seen as transitional — and controversial: Some critics view it as greenwash. Airlines, for their part, are getting on board.
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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