Corporate Knights

MAY 31, 2022

Profit maximization is still the end goal, so sustainable investors need to expect greenwashing and do their homework before buying in. We need rigorous academic research to back up our claims. These comments also show that there is a massive skills gap in the sustainable investment industry.

Sustainable Investment

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It also proposed to tackle greenwashing by strengthening competition law. More than 120 organizations, climate experts and academics endorse the bill, even writing to other senators to encourage them to support it too. The bill would create a duty for leaders of financial institutions to consider – and take – climate action.

Banking

3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But their approaches could be other forms of ESG investing in disguise—some just greenwashing or social washing—or they don’t have the roadmap, experience and resources to meet your impact goals. Expect thoughtfulness and experience, which can make all the difference between greenwashing and meaningfully uplifting under-resourced communities.

Impact Investing

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

FCA-hosted TechSprint aims to harness technology innovation to outpace adverse impacts of greenwashing in financial services. At yesterday’s culmination of the Global Financial Innovation Network’s (GFIN) first Greenwashing TechSprint , awards were presented based on different criteria.

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When Stephanie Schleimer was a young aspiring academic, preparing to teach her first course on corporate strategy, she couldn’t find a single textbook that mentioned values, well-being or sustainability. Goodstein and Schleimer are both directors of a kind of MBA program that didn’t exist when they were students.

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

In some instances, they may amount to so-called ‘greenwashing’ with consumers effectively being deluded into thinking their ‘energy efficient’ home represents a better outcome for the environment.”. Thousands of structures that earned high EPC ratings were still emitting lots of carbon due to shortcomings in the ranking system. “In

Embodied Carbon

3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2022

Greenwashing : Conveying the impression of sustainability or being environmentally friendly to take advantage of the “halo” effect that such actions bring to a company. Investopedia notes that greenwashing is “considered an unsubstantiated claim to deceive consumers into believing a company’s products are environmentally friendly.”

Greenwashing

ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Today’s release includes the TPT Disclosure Framework, which makes recommendations for companies and financial institutions to develop gold-standard transition plans, and the TPT Implementation Guidance, setting out the steps to develop a transition plan, as well as when, where and how to disclose their plan.

Net Zero

ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2023

The TPT launched its framework in November 2022, and is expected to publish it and its implementation guidance for transition plans in the summer of 2023.

Net Zero

3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

While the regulations may have similar goals of promoting transparency and addressing greenwashing, each framework differs in its scope or requirements, adding both a level of complexity and confusion. Different regulatory requirements have popped up in other jurisdictions, such as labelling regimes in the UK, France and Singapore.

Climate Change

Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For years, the lack of consensus on the key principles defining an “SDG-aligned” or “sustainable” business has created confusion and enabled greenwashing. However, many existing frameworks, practices, and reporting standards are not fit to purpose.

Supply Chains

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In theory, investing in a sustainable tomorrow would drive demonstrably strong and consistent financial returns, while investing in anything opposed to that future would underperform in comparison.

Sustainable Investment

James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

That’s why the William Davidson Institute is sponsoring the Energy Innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Global Case Writing Competition , which aims to increase the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic. The winners of the competition will receive cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $3,000.

Supply Chains

Eco-Business

APRIL 16, 2025

Despite a decline in cases of greenwashing, academic Kim Schumacher tells the EB Podcast that the problem isn't going away, it's just taking on a different form.

Greenwashing

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In December 2020, the Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) set up an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance comprising business, financial and academic experts with observers of officials from pertinent ministries and agencies. Significant progress. This July the panel released its second progress report , revealing extent of progress.

Climate Action Tracker

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

According to RepRisk’s “Navigating the Wave of Greenwashing and Social washing” report issued October 2023, “Social washing takes place when companies paint themselves in a positive light by obscuring an underlying social issue to safeguard reputation and financial performance. Watch this space!

Supply Chains

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Stephen Jamieson, Global Head of Circular Economy Solutions, SAP said: “In a climate where stricter regulations are now requiring businesses to disclose environmental impact, leaders who cannot accurately report this data risk allegations of greenwashing, and fines and reputational damage.

Supply Chains

Chris Hall

MARCH 11, 2022

Investors want that assurance, as do governments, civil society, rating agencies, academics, among others. That is why all stakeholder groups benefit from credible reporting standards , which are essential to mitigate lingering concerns about greenwashing.

Value Creation

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Concerns over greenwashing have accelerated efforts by regulators and standard setters to develop and introduce more robust forms of disclosure and measurement to the burgeoning ESG investing market, he suggests. When ESG [investing] has reliable measurement, we will begin to see investment decisions made in a different way,” he says.

Impact Investing

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” The voluntary agreements bring together Governments, businesses, local authorities, academics, NGOs, industry groups and citizens to take collaborative action, says WRAP. They address how the food and drink, plastics and textiles we use are produced and sold through to their reuse, remanufacture and recycling. .”

Waste

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Rickard Nilsson, Director of Strategy and Growth at Esgaia, highlights recent academic insights into the effectiveness of ESG engagement. Shareholder advocacy and engagement has certainly not been spared from the broader debate around widespread greenwashing in responsible investing. Mind the gap in engagement practice.

Stewardship Code

Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Clarity and reliability On data, definitions and disclosure it looks to make climate and sustainability data from companies more reliable and more comparable, to guard against greenwashing and enable market participants to better assess their exposure to ESG risks and opportunities.

Net Zero

Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Nonetheless, a cottage industry of academics has toiled away (sometimes in partnership with asset management firms) developing and testing theories such as creating shared value, circularity, and ESG investing. Essentially, you are asking for something for nothing—market returns plus social or environmental benefit.

Green Bonds

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lack of transparency in VCMs has driven debate, particularly among academics, on the viability of carbon offsets to effectively drive climate action. Those that continue to rely on low priced offsets risk a reputational backlash, and potential litigation as regulators increase their efforts to stymie greenwashing in 2023.”

Carbon Offsets

Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

Holly Duhig, a spokesperson for Uplift, an organisation campaigning for a fossil-free UK, said: “Claims from oil companies that a windfall tax diverts money that would be spent on renewable energy is greenwashing nonsense and a complete misrepresentation of industry spending. Windfall wisdom questioned.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

An academic report published in January suggested that sovereign issuers would benefit from lower yields and increased proceeds over the longer term by channelling investment to projects which contribute to UN SDGs. Transition challenges. But issuance by sovereigns will grow from a low base, especially in Asia.

Green Bonds

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In May more than 85 investment firms, academic organisations, and environmental groups from across the world including Environmental Defence, which represent nearly three million members, sent a letter to the Canadian administration demanding it “step up and pass policies that align the financial sector with climate action”.

Climate Change

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The impetus for net zero following the Paris COP came from the academic community, was endorsed and framed by policymakers, and requires business model change, often radical, to be implemented by corporates. “We have to acknowledge that with the transition to net zero, finance is an enabler not really the driver.”.

Net Zero

3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

KRISTY DRUTMAN: Mostly it’s people who are not in the climate space, comedians or politicians or entrepreneurs and business people who don’t really understand how to communicate climate science to the public because they don’t fully know the issue because they don’t have the academic background.

Climate Change

GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

What a company considers "agroforestry" also can be squishy, she points out — a situation that makes her and other climate advocates worry about companies using the term to "greenwash," or essentially pretend to be environmentally friendly without making substantive change. What is agroforestry?" There is no clear definition.

Regenerative

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 11, 2024

How they operate in a very autocratic top-down manner, they sup- press free speech in their companies, and engage in the mistreatment of workers and consumers and greenwashing of environmental issues. There’s a lot of exposés about how bad so many CEOs of major corporations are these days.

Greenwashing

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. It’s fascinating to see the mining industry trying to capitalize on these disasters to justify even more greenwashed destructive projects,” he says.

Net Zero

Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

Technology-focused climate crisis research and development (R&D) programs are in a time of rapid expansion and reformulation across government , academic research , the private sector, and partnerships that span all three. By Theodora Dryer.

Net Zero