Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

in 2020 called Climate Education Reform BC. RELATED Canadian cities are taking steps to restrict fossil fuel ads on public transit He floated banning fossil fuel ads in Canada. Then came the threats. The war of words over climate change The report cites a particularly ambitious youth-led campaign in B.C.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Climate and environmental sustainability advocacy group Global Witness announced today that it has submitted a complaint to the SEC, accusing energy giant Shell of greenwashing by misleading investors about the amount of investment it is directing towards renewable energy. of its overall expenditure on solar and wind power generation.

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ESG Today

MAY 31, 2023

The lawsuit comes as companies globally face increasing scrutiny of their environmental sustainability claims, with consumers and regulators increasingly on the lookout for greenwashing, or claims that exaggerate or misrepresent the impact or sustainability profile of products and business operations.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 16, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rules which aim to strengthen protections and address increasing confusion and greenwashing concerns around the rapid growth of ESG-oriented funds. grew to over $17 trillion in 2020. DESCRIPTION: The sustainability nonprofit Ceres submitted comments today in support of the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 31, 2023

Earlier this month, Environmental Defence launched its “Canada’s climate villains” campaign , using graphic-novelesque illustrations and monikers like “Toxic Traitor” and “Ruthless Greenwasher.

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ESG Today

MAY 28, 2024

EFRAG, a private association majority financed by the EU, was mandated by the European Commission in June 2020 to prepare for new EU sustainability reporting standards, including for SMEs which are public-interest entities, or those with securities traded in the EU.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Read the full story at Treehugger. Organizers say the Tokyo Games have set a new standard for sustainability, but critics beg to differ. Read more →

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sustainable investments soared in 2020 and 2021 , and that was certainly when the shine was on. We used to be concerned about greenwashing, but now it seems that many companies are deliberately staying quiet in what some are calling greenhushing – the practice of downplaying or keeping quiet about their sustainability initiatives.

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ESG Today

MAY 8, 2024

The investigation follows environmental sustainability-focused non-profit Stand.earth in February focused on claims made by the company regarding the green attributes of its products, operations, goals and supply chain, and Be Planet the environmental pillar of lululemon’s sustainability strategy.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00. Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.".

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 13, 2024

The executives also pleaded guilty to US foreign bribery charges in 2020 as part of a plea deal. In September 2023, as part of its attempt to combat greenwashing, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to its "names rule", which now requires 80% of a fund’s portfolio to match the objective cited in its name.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

It was a painful decision, Lala says of closing the Evolve North American Gender Diversity Index ETF in 2020. Tim Nash, founder, Good Investing Morningstar says that after three years of high growth, managers are being more selective and tactical in their approach ahead of anti-greenwashing regulations in the United Kingdom and Europe.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 6, 2024

CAPE has been critical of the lengthy and opaque investigation processes of Ad Standards and the Competition Bureau, which have fielded various greenwashing complaints in recent years. In January, the Competition Bureau launched an investigation into complaints of "deceptive marketing practices" by Enbridge Gas.

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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. between 2020 and 2022. went from 33% in 2020 to just 13% in 2022. trillion to US$2.36

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Impakter

MARCH 7, 2023

Impakter EU ‘Greening Corporate Fleets’ Initiative: Progressive or State-Sponsored Greenwashing? appeared first on Impakter. Stephen Hare

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2023

Non-profit Planet Tracker identifies widening range of greenwashing practices, which may require greater regulatory involvement as well as investor vigilance. . The report identifies six different types of greenwashing which contribute to making the issue tougher to tackle. Slaying the green hydra .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Greenwashing: not just a reputational issue Greenwashing is one of the most tangible risks linked to financial sustainability, and Article 8 plays a crucial role in preventing this practice. The post Article 8, Greenwashing and Transparency appeared first on ESG Investor.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2024

This could be for a variety of reasons: Threat of greenwashing accusations: In 2024, in a greenwashing lawsuit against KLM, a Dutch court ruled that the firm had broken the law through misleading advertising in 15 of the 19 environmental statements it assessed.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Australia’s climate financing between 2015 and 2020 totalled A$1.4 The report also found that greenwashing had overtaken performance concerns as the pre-eminent barrier to responsible investing. The plan, which has taken A$27.4 billion and included contributions to strengthen adaptation in the country.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

Fixler said DWS had made misleading statements in its 2020 annual report by claiming that more than half the group’s US$900 billion in assets were invested using ESG criteria. The post DWS CEO Quits Over Greenwashing Accusations appeared first on ESG Investor. This story includes reporting from our colleagues at Regulation Asia. .

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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

APRIL 21, 2023

In addition to the new green bond initiative, the government outlined a number of commitments aimed at advancing the development of a sustainable finance market, including backing the development of a sustainable finance taxonomy and efforts to tackle greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Asset managers should expect and prepare to be challenged on the sustainability credentials of their ESG-labelled funds as financial markets watchdogs clamp down on greenwashing, according to regulatory experts. . Growing concerns over greenwashing and mislabelling were highlighted in a 2021 report published by think tank InfluenceMap. .

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 3, 2022

But perception and reality of a company’s credentials can vary widely, and after years of media reports and widespread concern around ‘greenwashing’, the ASX recently announced a crackdown on ethical funds , joining ASIC to fight against those using the market disclosure system to fake green credentials. That’s exactly what greenwashing is.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Research by the European regulator shows that ESG-related named fund s attract more inflows , raising concerns about potential greenwashing. Mazzacurati said that there has been a substantial increase in the use of ESG-related language in fund names over the past decade.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Mon, 12/14/2020 - 00:05. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. We should celebrate this progress, the above stats from the 2020 corporate climate disclosures and the many other signals that environmental transparency and action are a business norm. On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action. Ateli Iyalla.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling comes as financial institutions and other companies increasingly face regulatory scrutiny over greenwashing concerns. Earlier this year, the CEO of Deutsche Bank’s investment arm DWS resigned after police raided the firms’ Frankfurt offices as part of an investigation into greenwashing allegations.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The summit brought together delegates from over 190 countries to negotiate the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework , the implementation of which will require a transformation in the way we produce, consume and trade goods and services that rely on and impact biodiversity. Bending the curve of biodiversity loss.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The charges relate to policy and procedure failures between 2017 and 2020 in three ESG-themed GSAM portfolios, the Goldman Sachs ESG Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Goldman Sachs International Equity ESG Fund and a US Equity ESG separately-managed account strategy.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2023

The SFAC compiled the report after it assumed responsibility for creating a green taxonomy after the Canadian Standards Association, a non-profit industry body, failed to reach consensus among fossil-fuel and investment-industry representatives in 2020.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Fri, 09/25/2020 - 01:00. From an emissions standpoint, Climate Week 2020 may go in the books as the greenest of all time. . Because yahoos such as me write critical columns about how they’re greenwashing or failing to do enough. First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action? Sarah Golden.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 12, 2022

The new luxury version was to open in 2020 , but that timetable got scotched for all the obvious reasons. It’s not easy to determine whether these projects represent corporate greenwashing, a new twist on luxury accommodation or some kind of genuine improvement.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

He noted that environmental footprint labels may not be as effective to drive positive change up the supply chain, and referenced a 2020 Compare Ethics study which found that only 20 percent of consumers trust eco labels.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

In May 2022, Carlos Calvo Ambel, a senior director of the Transport & Environment environmental campaign group, called the band Coldplay “useful idiots for greenwashing” Neste’s image. The accusation came after Coldplay signed a deal with Neste to provide SAF and renewable diesel to cut its concert tour emissions by half.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Modern aviation had never seen a year like 2020. But offsetting is seen as transitional — and controversial: Some critics view it as greenwash. Mon, 03/22/2021 - 00:05. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. It wasn’t just that the economy was in a holding pattern.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2022

The proposals are in response to increasing concerns raised by investors that current rules are potentially facilitating greenwashing, misleading customers over products’ underlying holdings. . The SEC previously asked for feedback on whether the ‘Fund Names Rule’ should be updated in March 2020. . What’s in a name? .

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Claim: Recent Underperformance Proves ESG Investing Doesn’t Work: Unlike in the initial downdraft in 2020, most ESG strategies did not provide protection during the January 2022 sell-off. Among Fortune 100 companies, 57% disclosed greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals in their 2021 proxies, up from just 35% in 2020.

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