Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

Once approved by the European Commission, banks will have to start making climate disclosures in 2023, with full phase-in by June 2024. The two ratios are expected to create pressure for banks to adopt more sustainable business strategies and help stamp out greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

In 2024, the number of listed companies with a climate commitment validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) jumped to 20% from just 12% in 2023. Major corporate buyers stepped back from purchasing carbon credits as accusations of greenwashing grew. It holds a significant cachet among companies,” he explained.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 23, 2024

This week marked Earth Day 2024 , and as we navigate an increasingly data-driven landscape and harness the burgeoning power of artificial intelligence, there are few justifications for organisations to not manage and report their environmental, social and governance (ESG) data with enhanced efficiency and transparency.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These categories mirror the three product labels proposed by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) last year as part of its Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) which aim to crack down on greenwashing. The SDRs were due to be introduced on 30 June, but following various delays are now expected in H2 2024.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) was established in 2021 in response to concerns that companies making carbon neutrality claims based on their use of carbon credits to offset their emissions were greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2023

Net Zero Insurance Alliance plan leaves door open to greenwashing, claim campaigners. The alliance’s 29 existing members, which represent 15% of premium volume globally, are required to set at least one target in each of the three categories by the end of July 2024, then report annually on progress. It condones talk, not action.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

The second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee ( INC-2 ) was supposed to discuss options for legally binding and voluntary measures addressing plastic use as a key step to reaching consensus by the end of 2024. The post Take Five: From Paris to Dubai, via Bonn appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And there are wider issues around the VCMs already in operation, such as credit pricing, third-party verification and reducing the risk of greenwashing. . While the ETA will offer a “fixed price” for corporates, there are concerns that too low a price could reduce the quality of the credits and expose the market to greenwashing risk. .

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ahead of the conference, the data had been collected and analysed, with assessments delivered on the effectiveness of actions taken to date, primarily in the form of signatories’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. The official verdict was clear. C of climate change by 2100.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

She encouraged investors to vote against directors’ re-elections and restrict new investments in firms that continue to be misaligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. “Shareholders are the last line of defence and must be supported in changing big oil from within,” said Rosa High, a member of the Fundraising and Legal team at Follow This.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 16, 2025

Without urgent reform, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risks enabling large-scale greenwashing and undermining global climate goals. We cannot let countries “NDC wash” as we have seen corporations greenwash. Image: UNclimatechange , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr. Infrastructure 11. Climate 16.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Brussels-based standards setters streamlined the disclosure rules European firms must follow from 2024 onward, while watchdogs stepped up their battle against greenwashing , whilst providing yet further “ clarity ”, around service providers’ taxonomy-alignment requirements.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Covering legislative actions from October to December 2024, this comprehensive quarterly report provides in-depth insights into regulatory developments affecting the consumer goods industry across the EU, U.S., Key Insights In Q4 2024, global efforts to address climate change and sustainability advanced through key regulatory developments.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 23, 2025

But the lack of common standards and real accountability has created uncertainty and enabled greenwashing. The shift began with the Paris Agreement in 2015, when the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created. Mandatory climate-risk disclosure is short on cheerleaders.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

According to FTSE Russell’s 2024 sustainable investment survey , asset owners are now implementing sustainable investments more often through passive than active investment strategies for the first time. Storebrand makes the distinction between Paris-alignment reporting and financial alignment. trillion total.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 9, 2024

For climate campaigners who believe carbon offsetting is basically greenwashing, this was a disappointing development. The revision of the SBTi standards … may offer an encouraging pathway for the evolution of corporate climate accountability in 2024,” the group said – though it remained sceptical about any use of carbon credits at all.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

The election of powerful climate skeptics in 2024 including Donald Trump, whose new energy secretary is a former fracking CEO who has talked up the benefits of a warmer planet and who just pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord shows just how fragile the gains made are. It will continue to be business as usual.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 24, 2025

Like most countries, China has yet to submit its nationally determined contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement for the five years to 2035, but Xis comments are seen as an indicator of his appetite for global leadership on climate policy. billion in Q4 2024, and contributing to record global withdrawals of US$ 8.6

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