Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

Church investors dared to come to annual meetings to ask questions, or even worse, church investors filed shareholder proposals,” she wrote in a 2018 blog about her early work. EE: There’s a general concern about greenwashing and the dissonance between what many companies say they believe about ESG issues and what they are actually doing.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Woehrmann, who had held the position since late 2018, will be replaced by Stefan Hoops, currently head of DWS parent Deutsche Bank’s corporate banking operations, from 10 June, according to a statement issued Wednesday. The post DWS CEO Quits Over Greenwashing Accusations appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found. China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The fund, the Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index Fund, was launched in 2018, offering investors with exposure to international fixed income investments, and claimed to apply screens to exclude companies with activities related to areas including fossil fuels, alcohol and tobacco, among others. million (USD$8.9

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Proposals by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aimed at encouraging listed companies to make more informative forward-looking statements in their prospectuses could lead to a “proliferation in negligent greenwashing” , litigation finance provider Woodsford has warned.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Greenwashing poses a “real and present danger” to industry efforts to advance sustainability considerations in their investment processes. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is planning to impose new supervisory expectations on ESG funds to help mitigate the risk of greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

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.”. Thousands of structures that earned high EPC ratings were still emitting lots of carbon due to shortcomings in the ranking system. “In

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

Alexander True, Business Partner at Sarasin, offers seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. With this in mind, we have put together a shortlist of seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. The post Seven Ways to Spot Greenwashing appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

The company said using renewable energy for cryptocurrency mining has been its goal since beginning the Hennepin project in 2018. Sangha believes that the deal signals a shift in how cryptocurrency miners will be developing their energy resources going forward.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) was proposed in 2018, a lot has changed in the world of sustainable finance. Today we are launching an in-depth three-month consultation for stakeholders. We want to know if our rules meet their needs and expectations, and if it is fit for purpose.”

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B the Change

OCTOBER 8, 2022

During our conversation, Enck addressed the crucial need for companies to be held accountable for the environmental impacts their products make, as well as the major problem with chemical recycling and the abundance of greenwashing among companies taking “environmental action.” The Problem with Chemical Recycling Until 2018, the U.S.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Greenwashing,” or misrepresenting investment processes and objectives to clients, is a real risk. Roarty is an active part of the sustainable investing community, acting as a subject-matter expert around the globe, including speaking at the 2018 Sustainable Investing Conference at the UN.

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James Militzer

JUNE 21, 2024

The report attributed this decline to methodology changes made by Alliance member US Sustainable Investment Forum, which tightened its standards regarding what qualifies as a sustainable investment in an attempt to address rising concerns about greenwashing.

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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). iii] However, the new briefing reveals that almost three quarters (73%) of this diversion in 2018 took the form of incineration.[iv]

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Such bioplastics have effectively been ‘greenwashed’, he said, and mis-sold to environmentally responsible consumers and companies. “It’s because they need specific manmade conditions to biodegrade, and many degrade into microplastics, which contaminate our oceans and food chain for centuries”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A Target-Measure-Act approach, developed by WRAP, ensures rigorous evaluation of progress, giving transparent and publicly reported updates against targets to avoid greenwashing.” Since 2018, The UK Plastics Pact has changed how the UK makes, uses and disposes of plastics. non-Near-Infrared detectable colours and PVC.)

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ten days earlier, seven Ontario youth appeared in court virtually to challenge the provincial government’s decision to gut its climate targets in 2018. “We In 2018, Watts co-founded an accelerator for young people in low-income, high-climate-risk countries working on climate start-ups. That’s the power of compounded action,” she says.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

US fund managers are caught between a fierce anti-ESG campaign by Republicans and mounting efforts to curb greenwashing, explains John Kostyack, Adviser to Sierra Club’s Fossil-Free Finance campaign. With respect to ESG, and more specifically climate, there is a greenwashing problem,” said Kostyack. “It’s

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Renaming trend may lead to a short uptick in greenwashing, but ultimately will accelerate the path to net zero and offer sustainable investors more choice. The decision to rebrand a fund often raises eyebrows, with investors “intuitively suspicious” of the activity due to greenwashing concerns among others.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

SBTN empowers companies to define their own path and verifies that their goals align with scientific recommendations, an important stamp of approval for companies that want to steer clear of greenwashing. In doing so, SBTN recognizes that context and individual circumstances matter. For companies in land-based sectors (i.e.,

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The announcement also connects to an international initiative under which Canada and Argentina launched a peer review of each other’s fossil fuel subsidies in 2018. increase in 2021, the Canadian Climate Institute reported in February). That work was meant to conclude by 2020.

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2022

There is still a lack of trust regarding organisations’ ESG claims and a perception that companies are guilty of greenwashing or only reporting on positive progress. Historically, employees, customers, investors, and other stakeholders have been cynical about corporate reports on sustainability and corporate social responsibility issues.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The World Economic Forum estimated its monetary value in 2018 to be equivalent to an estimated US$125 trillion worth of economic, natural and social capital. What is the TNFD? The arrival of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) was announced as early as July 2020.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This theory has already been implemented, with programmes having helped catalyse over US$1 billion in financing for nature across 41 countries since 2018, according to the UNDP. Credits due – New ways for governments to mobilise funding sources for biodiversity have been abundant at COP16.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In a case brought by investor Richard Tonetta, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that the 2018 compensation deal – the biggest in US corporate history – did not satisfy its test of fair price and process, asserting that Tesla’s board had no need to offer the 21.9%

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the statement it referred to metallurgical coal as “carbon steel materials”, drawing accusations of greenwashing. Rio Tinto , meanwhile, sold its last coal mines – both thermal and metallurgical – in 2018, and now produces no fossil fuels. BHP sold its oil and gas business to Woodside in 2022 in an all-share deal.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2022

New tool identifies greenwashing, finds GFANZ exclusion policies lagging net zero pledges. The tracker detects greenwashing practices in the finance sector, said Director Lucie Pinson. “It Many of the current policies of banks, insurers and investors are “too flawed” to align their businesses with their net zero 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When Coca Cola – the world’s biggest plastic polluter , was announced as one of the sponsors for COP27 this year – the world’s largest climate change conference, it sparked a wave of greenwashing accusations. On the face of it, the backlash was justified.

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Chris Hall

MAY 25, 2022

In its order against BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, the SEC said the firm represented or implied in various statements from July 2018 to September 2021 that all investments in its funds had undergone an ESG quality review – but that this was not always the case.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2023

Between 2018-2021 alone, inflows into global sustainability funds rose from  US $5 billion to nearly US$70 billion.  But for all the mounting ESG efforts, little attention has been paid to the discordance of the ‘G’ from the ‘E’ and the ‘S’.

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Chris Hall

JULY 29, 2022

Corporate greenwashing only added to the sense that, too often, talk about stakeholder capitalism was really a PR exercise designed to echo the mood of the times. Shifting priorities . It certainly looked that way at Davos. . Cultural motivation . A good deal of this comes down to culture and motivation.

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

In 2018, he issued a formal complaint against the SBTi for making a decision without consulting the group, for which he was removed without prior notice. Major corporate buyers stepped back from purchasing carbon credits as accusations of greenwashing grew. Divided opinion Last year was a challenging one for the VCMs.

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Sustainability Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When forming a new sustainability policy, businesses are at risk of greenwashing — when a company spends time and money on marketing itself as environmentally friendly, rather than actually minimising its environmental impact. Specifically, the framework centres on a discussion paper that was developed in partnership with the OECD in 2018.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

Since early 2018, the West’s six biggest oil majors have disposed of US$44 billion in predominantly fossil fuel assets. Maria Lozovik, Founding Partner at Marsham Investment Management, explains why investment in ‘brown’ firms may offer a gateway to a greener economy. .

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Steven Mintz

JUNE 5, 2024

Moderator: Joan Lee, Fairfield University The Effect of Public Criticism on Corporate Greenwashing Leting Liu, University of Toronto – Rotman, Ontario, Canada (Presenter) Discussant: W. Doty was appointed by the SEC as the Chairman of the PCAOB in January 2011 and served until January 2018. ESG – Room 1 Behavioral Ethics – 1.5

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Hales has served as Chair of the SASB Standards Board since 2018. As it reaches maturity, there’s growing demand for rigorous ‘greenwash-proof’ impact data across global markets, with the US catching up to Europe.” . Their appointments make the ISSB quorate.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that global warming must not exceed 1.5°C This has fueled confusion and accusations of greenwashing. Why Should Companies Pursue Science-Based Targets (SBT)? C to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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