ESG Today

JUNE 15, 2025

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Net Zero

ESG Today

AUGUST 5, 2025

million) for greenwashing, after finding that the company used misleading environmental messages or claims in the promotion of its clothing products. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) announced that it has fined global fashion online retailer Shein’s website operator Infinite Styles Services Co €1 million (USD$1.15

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2025

In 2021, these investors accounted for 52 per cent of global assets under management in 2021 a figure expected to jump to nearly 61 per cent by 2030. The greenwashing challenge Our findings highlight both the potential and pitfalls of sustainable finance. Investors with a high-risk tolerance were more likely to invest in green bonds.

Green Bonds

ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the consultation response, Tulip Siddiq, Economic Secretary to the Treasury & City Minister, said: “With the global ESG market predicted to surpass $40 trillion by 2030, investors and markets are making increasing use of ESG ratings to inform investment decisions and capital allocation.

Greenwashing

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This has included legislating a 2050 net zero target and setting a legally-binding target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 below 2005 levels. The report also found that greenwashing had overtaken performance concerns as the pre-eminent barrier to responsible investing.

Net Zero

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

That means it is tapping the earth’s heat, rather than conventional gas-fired boilers, to warm and cool the building’s interior spaces. per year but can apply for more if they’ve renovated the building significantly).

Decarbonize

Sustainability Matters

MAY 4, 2025

The University of Tasmanias study, Greenwashing in the Tuna Industry , has scored 14 commonly purchased canned tuna brands against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions (ACCC) principles for making environmental claims.

Greenwashing

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The GBF’s Target 19 calls for the mobilisation of at least US$200 billion per year by 2030 to protect biodiversity, including financial resources from the private sector, with biodiversity credits seen as a catalyst for meeting this goal.

Greenwashing

Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2025

billion of broader finance capital,” said Sack. SCIFF instruments include the Blue Bond Accelerator , Outrigger Impact Fund , and Nautilus Blue Guarantee Facility.

Regenerative

B the Change

MAY 29, 2025

reduction by 2030 (from 2019 levels) compared to the 43% necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C These businesses may also face the risk of greenwashing if they set targets without relying on accurate and verified emissions data. According to the latest scientific data, the world is on track for just a 2.6%

Net Zero

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

in 2030 compared with 2019 levels, somewhat short of the 43% cut calculated as necessary by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to keep climate change to 1.5°C. If fully implemented, existing NDCs would see emissions fall by 2.6% C range over the course of the century.

Net Zero

Eco-Business

JULY 23, 2025

The unprecedented damage complicates the target to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030, agreed upon by more than 140 countries at the COP26 UN climate change conference in 2021. ” What are the risks if tropical forests remain unprotected?

Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 2, 2025

Trump revoked Bidens plan for 50 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States to be electric by 2030, halting the distribution of funds from a $5 billion program to install vehicle charging stations. According to the latest Sustainable Development Report , only 16 percent of the targets are on track to be met by 2030.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

This follows a decision in November to overturn a ruling requiring Shell to almost halve its carbon emissions by 2030.

Net Zero

ESG Today

DECEMBER 22, 2024

This week in ESG news: Biden administration sets new U.S. This week in ESG news: Biden administration sets new U.S.

Net Zero

Corporate Knights

JUNE 24, 2025

Charlie Angelakos, VP of sustainability, McCain Foods So the company embarked on a new mission to attain 100% regenerative agriculture across its farms by 2030. from 2023 to 2030. Bloomberg News warned in 2023 that Big Food’s regenerative agriculture push was running a greenwashing risk, due to the lack of established targets.

Regenerative

Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2025

A unified taxonomy helps investors identify credible projects and avoid greenwashing, increasing trust in blue finance. First and foremost, investors can encourage the creation of common definitions and classifications for what qualifies as a sustainable blue investment, she said. billion of broader finance capital, said Sack.

Regenerative

James Militzer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

billion by 2030. In a sector where greenwashing is an increasingly common problem, and practically anything can be presented as an impact investment regardless of the business’ actual impact, this transparency is important. Powered by these success stories, within a span of 30 years, microfinance has grown into a US $187.3

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

APRIL 24, 2025

In an open letter , the former asked the latter to support the UK government’s plans for clean power system by 2030, citing far-reaching reforms including to grid connectivity. The event also prompted a written exchange of views between policymakers and the private sector.

Paris Agreement

Financial Times: Moral Money

JULY 28, 2025

The group has an ambitious methane reduction target of minus 30 per cent by 2030. When coffee pod company Nespresso, owned by Nestlé, obtained B Corp status, a coalition of previously certified coffee companies wrote an open letter accusing B Lab of greenwashing.

Supply Chains

Corporate Knights

MAY 19, 2022

If we have any chance of heeding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s repeated warnings and meaningfully reducing global CO2 emissions by 2030 , the business community will have to get serious about the task at hand. . Vanessa Chris is a content strategist and founder of h2h content. .

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While linking corporate debt to sustainability targets sounds like a great way of incentivizing companies to make environmental, social and governance (ESG) improvements, a lack of standardized rules has quickly opened the door to greenwashing, with some companies using the funds to continue business as usual with little ESG impact. .

Greenwashing

Renew Economy

AUGUST 25, 2022

Origin Energy's first Climate Action Transition Plan has some definite positives, but is coming under fire for greenwashing gas out of its 2030 targets. The post Origin looks to renewables and storage for climate plan, but greenwashes gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Greenwashing

Renew Economy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We can't afford to give free kicks to heavy emitters, especially when Australia needs all the help it can get to reach 82% renewables by 2030. The post We must not let big emitters greenwash their emissions with renewables free kick appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. . The post Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing appeared first on Corporate Knights.

Banking

Corporate Knights

JULY 23, 2024

Where once there were claims about the companies working together to reduce their absolute emissions by 22 million tons (Mt) annually by 2030, and to net-zero by 2050, there is now a statement that Pathways is “focused on advancing environmental innovation and pursuing emissions efficiencies from our oil sands operations”.

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2024

That pre-emptive action is proof of that which activists in Canada say has long been in plain sight: greenwashing is rampant in the fourth-largest petroleum-producing country in the world – but will new legislative ammo effectively tackle it? That includes the kind of proof that companies will have to give to the public about their claims.

Greenwashing

GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

IBM said it would reach that milestone in 2030. Such commitments often are coupled with an interim goal of cutting emissions in half by, say, 2030. Is net zero greenwash? The term is used to greenwash business-as-usual or even business-more-than-usual," it continued. "At The bar continues to move. Some think so.

Net Zero

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.

Climate Action Tracker

ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The investigation comes as EU regulators and lawmakers have taken a series of actions aimed at addressing greenwashing and protecting consumers from misleading sustainability claims. In the UK , the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has focused most of its greenwashing efforts to date on the fashion sector.

Greenwashing

ESG Today

MAY 17, 2023

A legal action filed by a group of environmental organizations with greenwashing claims against energy giant TotalEnergies will be permitted to proceed in the Paris judicial court, a pre-trial judge ruled today, clearing a major hurdle for the lawsuit. It is therefore wrong to claim that our strategy is “greenwashing”.”

Greenwashing

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.

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Back then, some members of the SIO, the precursor to today’s Responsible Investment Association (RIA), felt the lack of a sustainability label placed the industry at risk of greenwashing. The fear 20 years ago that a green investment label could itself enable greenwashing is now playing out two decades later in Europe.

Sustainable Investment

3BL Media

JULY 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As the number of consumers seeking eco-friendly products rises each year, The Chemours Company has sought to embed sustainability throughout its organization, developing an assessment methodology called EVOLVE 2030 to set and carry out its goals. Continue reading here. KEYWORDS: NYSE:CC, The Chemours Company.

Net Zero

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. It also has pushed us to a new moment of corporate leadership. To stay below a 1.5

Climate Change

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It also proposed to tackle greenwashing by strengthening competition law. If done well and implemented quickly, these policy promises would make the financial sector more sustainable and help Canada reach its 2030 emission-reduction commitments. What is needed now?

Banking

ESG Today

MAY 8, 2024

That is why we have set externally validated (SBTi) 2030 climate targets, and a goal to be Net Zero by 2050, and are taking action.” We have achieved 60% absolute reduction of greenhouse emissions in our owned and operated facilities but recognize most of the impact comes from emissions within the broader supply chain.

Greenwashing