ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Council stated that the proposals form part of efforts to prevent greenwashing, or the mischaracterization or exaggeration of the sustainability characteristics and attributes of financial products and services. Click here to access the greenwashing position paper and the sustainable finance report.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Biodiversity credits are going to explode in scale and 2025 will be a critical year,” Simon Zadek, Founder of non-profit NatureFinance, told ESG Investor. The post Boom or Bust for Biodiversity Credits in 2025 appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Environmental Finance

JULY 3, 2025

Australian Taxonomy-linked sustainable bond guidance expected by early 2026 03 July 2025 The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) expects to publish dedicated guidance for using the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy in labelled sustainable bond transactions by early 2026 at the latest. Sign-in Forgot your password?

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new rules form part of the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR), introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The new measures include an anti-greenwashing rule, applying to all communication by FCA-authorized firms about the environmental or social characteristics of financial products or services, aimed at ensuring that the claims made “are fair, clear, and not misleading, and consistent with the sustainability profile of the product or service.”

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ESG Today

APRIL 24, 2024

Firms with assets under management greater than £50 billion would be required to begin providing product-level disclosures under the SDR from December 2025, and those with AUM greater than £5 billion from December 2026. Our good and poor practice anti-greenwashing examples will help firms market their products in the right way.”

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The UK government announced the publication of draft legislation, aimed at regulating providers of ESG ratings, with plans to proceed with introducing a finalized law to Parliament in early 2025. The new proposed law would place ESG ratings providers under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 26, 2022

More recently, Deutsche Bank’s offices were raided this past May to investigate “greenwashing” charges in its asset management unit, DWS. companies by 2025 or earlier. Mandatory disclosure will also signal that ESG is a strategic concern and will discourage practices that decouple stated and actual performance, such as greenwashing.

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ESG Today

APRIL 30, 2025

Following its industry consultation on the new proposal, however, the FCA said in February 2025 that it would delay its plans to publish a Policy Statement on the proposal in Q2 2025, and in its new update, the regulator said that it has now decided that it is not the right time to finalise rules on extending SDR to portfolio management.

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ESG Today

MAY 28, 2024

The CSRD took effect from the beginning of 2024 for large public-interest companies with over 500 employees, followed by companies with more than 250 employees or €40 million in revenue in 2025, and is slated to take effect for listed SMEs in 2026.

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3BL Media

MAY 8, 2025

SAN DIEGO, May 8, 2025 /3BL/ - My Green Lab today proudly launches the ACT Ecolabel 2.0 For procurement professionals, the ACT Ecolabel streamlines decision-making by enabling direct product comparisons across suppliers while mitigating greenwashing risks. offers product-level data to support sustainability-driven purchasing decisions.

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ESG Today

MAY 8, 2025

Indias Ministry of Finance announced the release of a draft framework for its Climate Finance Taxonomy, its classification system for identifying sustainable economic activities aligned with its climate goals, aimed at enabling the facilitation of major capital flows required to support the net zero transition, while preventing greenwashing.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Food brands should keep this in mind as they plan for 2025, particularly when it comes to their sustainability goals, because global trade trends will have consequences for Americans wallets and values. Fairtrade America forecasts the following trends for 2025 and calls on brands to strategize around them as the New Year approaches.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

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. Retail investors push for green funds Its not all doom and gloom. Illustrations by C.J.

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ESG Today

APRIL 30, 2025

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced that it has decided to drop its target to mobilize $500 billion in sustainable finance, and has held off on providing some climate finance-related disclosures, following changes to greenwashing regulations in Canada. RBC set a goal in 2021 to mobilize $500 billion in sustainable finance by 2025.

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ESG Today

MAY 8, 2024

The Stand.earth complaint outlined a series of alleged “false or misleading public representations” made by lululemon in the context of its Be Planet program.

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ESG Today

MAY 8, 2025

The Commission has also previously expressed concern that the SFDRs classification system, such as the Article 8 and 9 classifications, were being used as de-facto sustainability quality labels, raising potential greenwashing risks. The call for evidence will remain open through May 30, 2025.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The FCA’s SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The FCA’s SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

The FCAs SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

New nature legislation and updated modern slavery act are also key priorities ahead of 2025 federal elections. Next year, Australia is due to finalise its first National Climate Risk Assessment and National Adaptation Plan , which will replace the National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy 2021–2025.

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ESG Today

MAY 9, 2025

Adopted by the EU in November 2023 , and taking effect in December 2024, the EuGB regulation was launched by the European Commission to establish a gold standard for green bonds, in order to combat greenwashing and advance the sustainable finance market in the EU. billion of green bonds, 15.6

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

In fact, ESG investing is on track to exceed $50 trillion by 2025[1]—serious money that would represent more than a third of all projected global assets under management. Trillion of Global AUM by 2025, Finds Bloomberg Intelligence,” July 2021. [2] ESG is no passing fad. The second question is more complex.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

Dr Rory Sullivan, CEO of Chronos Sustainability, considers what a reshaped world means for sustainable finance in 2025. The world will look very different in 2025. The economics support sustainability One of the reasons for optimism in 2025 is because many of the actions we want to encourage are already supported by the economics.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The FCAs SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2025

ESMA launched the new rules after noting a sharp increase in the use of sustainability-related terms in fund names in Europe over the past several years, leading to an increased risk of greenwashing. The new guidelines come into effect on May 21, 2025.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

RELATED Canadian investors stand firm on ESG despite greenhushing trend, report finds The anti-DEI movement confronts an unlikely opponent: big banks Meet the four most sustainable funds on the market for 2025 Deadlines to submit reports starting in 2026 will be pushed back to 2028.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Industry experts have warned that that the timeline for implementation of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) anti-greenwashing rule could be challenging for asset managers and other regulated firms. The post Tight Timeline for FCA Anti-greenwashing Rule appeared first on ESG Investor.

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ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2025

ESMA launched the new rules after noting a sharp increase in the use of sustainability-related terms in fund names in Europe over the past several years, leading to an increased risk of greenwashing. The new guidelines come into effect on May 21, 2025.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 13, 2024

The sustainable investment industry was among the strongest supporters of the SEC’s initial proposal. “The SEC’s new climate rule will help make it clearer which companies are living up to their climate pledges and which are doing nothing more than greenwashing,” said Al Gore, former U.S. The SEC estimates that 3,700 U.S.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

As predicted by the Climate Bonds Initiative , green bonds have returned to growth and could reach the ambitious level of $5 trillion a year starting in 2025. How high is the risk of greenwashing? As interest in environmental, social and governance sustainability has grown, so as the risk of greenwashing.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 3, 2022

For a long time it remained something of a buzz phrase, understood by few and cared about by even fewer, but in recent years ESG has morphed into a global phenomenon with ESG assets tipped to surpass US$41 trillion in 2022 and US$50 trillion by 2025 — one-third of the projected total assets under management globally.

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2024

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced that it has commenced work on the development of a new international standard on net zero, aimed at providing clarity and credibility to organizations’ net zero targets and strategies, and to guard against greenwashing.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2024

In 2022-23 Anheuser-Busch InBev quietly stopped running Facebook advertisements that referred to its goals of net zero emissions by 2040 and 100% recycled packaging by 2025. Such greenwashing accusations are increasingly commonplace – in the US alone, a dozen greenwashing lawsuits have been filed every year since 2020.

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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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

New funds will have to comply with the rules from 21 November, while existing funds have until May 2025. These rules were introduced in the wake of a consultation seeking feedback on the current requirements of SFDR , which asked whether its Article 8 and 9 disclosure categories should be more formally established as fund labels.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 4, 2025

Wider adoption of standards in regen agriculture could help prevent greenwashing but some investors fail to see the benefits, attendees at Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.

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