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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. Almost immediately in response to the Clean Creatives campaign, communications consultancy Porter Novelli announced it would end its working relationship with the American Public Gas Association from 2021. Michael Holder. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00.

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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:00. Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. If successfully on stream by summer 2021 as its designers hope, the service should drive not only increased transparency but also increased accountability.

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ESG funds pouring millions into meat company linked to Brazil deforestation

Corporate Knights

From 2021 to May this year, 22 investors, including banks and pension funds, have divested from JBS or its subsidiaries, citing its links to biodiversity loss and governance issues, according to the Financial Exclusion Tracker project. JBS is widely regarded as an ESG pariah.

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

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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94% of Investors Say Corporate Sustainability Reporting Contains Unsupported Claims: PwC

ESG Today

The report noted, however, that these levels were below those of a prior 2021 survey, despite the fact that fewer investors disagreed with these statements, with more investors instead being “neutral” on these issues.

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The ESG Interview: Learn from the Past, Look to the Future

Chris Hall

In 2021 LAPFF engaged with 171 companies, many of those major international organisations that make up the indexes to which the funds are exposed in their passive equity strategies. McMurdo anticipates more such rebellions this year, which he says reflects the pervasive greenwashing evident in net zero plans. Disputing divestment.

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Investors Face Direct Risk from Climate Litigation

Chris Hall

Direct litigation risks include challenging investors’ mismanagement of climate and biodiversity-related risk, breaches of fiduciary duty, greenwashing, or financing environmental and human rights-related harms.