ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2023

The original Green Finance Strategy was launched in 2019, aimed at establishing the UK as a center for international green finance, and aligning the financial sector and capital flows with the delivery of global and domestic climate and environmental objectives.

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B the Change

JUNE 22, 2022

including many following the recent COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?—?has We cannot afford slow movers, fake movers, or any form of greenwashing.” has also increased leverage for companies’ climate transition plans. So h ow can B Lab play its role in this race against time?

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up. Besides, a third of the respondents consider offsetting as pure greenwashing. Offsetting is often hypocrisy, and it is swirling around at #COP26.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends. Figure 3: Calculated impacts of company A for the fiscal year 2019 (own operations and upstream supply chain). 2022 Sustainability Summary. Source VBA.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Since 2019, every jurisdiction in Canada has imposed a price on carbon pollution. C, clarifying fiduciary duty, and strengthening advertising rules to deter greenwashing. Trudeau said: “In the last six years, Canada has proven to the world that you can take meaningful climate action while building a strong, growing economy.”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

South Africa signed a JETP at COP26 in Glasgow, which committed France, Germany, the UK, the EU and the US to supporting its clean energy transition through US$8.5 billion in first-phase financing, provided through grants, concessional loans, investments and risk-sharing instruments over three to five years.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Between 2008 and 2016, the five biggest oil companies (ExxonMobil, BP-Amoco, Chevron-Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips) collectively spent an average of US$217 million on advertising annually, a sixfold increase from two decades earlier, according to a 2019 paper in the journal Climatic Change.

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