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The key to combatting greenwashing? An empowered marketing team

Corporate Knights

Increasingly savvy customers want to know about the green options that exist, and a vast majority also want to know what makes them “green.” This shifting trend, combined with the global anti-greenwashing regulatory crackdown spurred by the U.K., the EU, the U.S.

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The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets

GreenBiz

The potential for greenwashing is high. Many of these projects also have a social mission and could support local economic development such as providing fair wages for waste collectors and generating new job opportunities. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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Is the burgeoning 'plastic credits' market a new wave of greenwashing?

Corporate Knights

ACC’s Deekali Plastic Project in Senegal provides paying jobs for landfill waste pickers, says managing director Nicole Dewing. The unaltered stomach contents of a dead albatross chick photographed on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific in September 2009 include plastic marine debris fed the chick by its parents.

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The JUST Report: COP28 Highlights the Need for Stakeholder Model on Global Scale

Just Capital

How does the world address climate change while safeguarding economies, acknowledging disparities, protecting worker well-being and jobs, meeting consumer needs, and supporting communities? How do we advance a just transition ? These are questions that JUST’s work is grounded in. UK, and China. Futurism has the story.

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

Conversely, nature-positive business opportunities could add 232 million jobs and generate US$4.3 Regulators in APAC and beyond increasingly are alert to the risks of greenwashing, imposing new requirements to ensure that the contents of sustainable funds justify their labels and marketing claims.

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Energy Transition Accelerator

Chris Hall

And there are wider issues around the VCMs already in operation, such as credit pricing, third-party verification and reducing the risk of greenwashing. . To ensure a just transition, the ETA will also establish social safeguards and benefits to local economies, such as supporting job creation and training. .