Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. However, the risks from biodiversity loss are enormous.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The document also holds out the possibility of subsidies for carbon trading deals under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, and for Indigenous participation in fossil fuel projects. I think we’ve got to be very careful about the LNG argument,” he told the Globe and Mail.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2024

Inconsistency and Greenwashing Across the sector, the report cites inconsistent asset disclosure, lack of transparency around fossil fuel investments, and what it calls the “obfuscation” of terms like “green assets” and “transition assets” as factors that make it “nearly impossible” to assess pension funds’ performance.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

European efforts to bring transparency to ESG funds haven’t addressed fears of greenwashing. Different approaches to product classification have sown confusion and raised greenwashing concerns among both institutional and retail investors. How does SFDR define Article 8 and Article 9 funds? What impact has SFDR had?

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Eco-Business

JUNE 16, 2025

Unless governments act fast to tighten rules on carbon credits, Article 6 could become a dangerous loophole that stalls progress. Without urgent reform, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risks enabling large-scale greenwashing and undermining global climate goals. Image: UNclimatechange , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr.

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B the Change

MAY 29, 2025

In this article, Brigitta Nemes, Senior Environmental and Governance Standards Manager, explores how B Lab’s new standards raise the bar on Climate Action — calling for credible, measurable steps toward a net-zero, 1.5°C-aligned This article was originally published at [link]. C-aligned future.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Bioy said that the two biggest issues with SFDR in its current form are its “complexity and lack of minimum standards, especially for Article 8.” Article 8 funds promote “environmental and/or social characteristics”, provided that companies in which the investments are made follow good governance practices.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

To prove his point, Usher notes the investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into greenwashing allegations made in the Wall Street Journal by a former executive of asset management firm DWS. Fancy writes: “To fix our system and curb a growing [greenwashing] disaster, we need government to fix the rules.”.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

Within the SFDR, Article 9 funds represent a significant opportunity for investors that look for rapid abatement and sustainable land use practices combined with strong returns on investment in the medium to long term. SFDR offers three main classifications: Article 6, Article 8, and Article 9.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

The World Bank estimates that a carbon price of $50 to $100 per ton of CO2 is required by 2030 to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. The increased scrutiny over greenwashing is necessary, and will provoke the market to favor substance over style. The 10 Big Things To Watch Across World’s Energy Markets in 2023.

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

But SBTi’s status as the gold standard for companies serious about decarbonising in line with the Paris Agreement took a serious hit last month after a highly public spat between staff and executives. Major corporate buyers stepped back from purchasing carbon credits as accusations of greenwashing grew.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This article was first published in Business Green. make greenwashing easier to detect and allow companies that are really delivering on climate action to stand out from the crowd. Business knows that 1.5ºC is a limit not a target. At COP27, over 100 businesses joined our call to stick to the 1.5°C

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

and Benefit Business and the Planet This article by Dr. Hao Liang is part of “The Basics” series by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) that provides essential knowledge about core business sustainability topics. A version of this article was published by the Network for Business Sustainability. The hope is that solutions?—?or

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

This article originally appeared in Business Green. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. Climate success requires laws that ensure consistent reporting on emissions reductions, writes Jane Thostrup Jagd of the We Mean Business Coalition.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Episode 248: Mastercard CSO, parsing plastics policy, Paris Agreement at 5. Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals? Happy 5th anniversary, Paris Agreement (39:25) . Paris Agreement. Sponsored Article. Heather Clancy. Fri, 12/11/2020 - 00:10.

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Chris Hall

JULY 11, 2022

In March, a group of institutional investors, including Swedish pension scheme AP7, also launched a 14-point disclosure standard to ensure investee companies’ climate change lobbying aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement. . Members of the Joint ECON/ENVI Committee previously objected to the DA. . Saving grace” .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

However, she has observed an increasing trend of climate-related litigations, particularly involving greenwashing and misleading advertising. Next, she explained that the third category involves carbon markets established under Article Six of the Paris Agreement.

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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. The post Integrity, Flexibility and the Carbon Markets appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Reading this article, you will better understand the carbon offsets market, carbon offsets controversy and the key initiatives to follow. Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up.

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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

In this summary article, ESG Investor covers some of the areas with the biggest implications for asset owners. COP28’s final text highlighted the importance of conserving, protecting and restoring nature to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, in line with the Global Biodiversity Framework. The official verdict was clear.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

More specifically, net zero can be defined as the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions overall and removing greenhouse gas emissions to achieve the Paris Agreement goals: these are enshrined in Articles 2.1 This article was co-authored by Monopoly Christiaan-Rakus, Associate, Commercial Property, at Farrer & Co.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

While progress was uneven, it was achieved against a radically changing geopolitical backdrop, and reinforced by moves in the US to mandate climate risk disclosures by corporates and discourage greenwashing by fund providers. It might not be perfect, but perhaps we should not expect it to be. This is how it is being interpreted by the market.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

These include the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement which are the anchors for the Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and other standards,” she says. SFDR’s Article 9 classification cover funds with sustainability or reduction in carbon emissions as their objective.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2024

They argue that this country could actually take credit for some of those Asian GHG reductions under Article 6 of the 2015 Paris climate treaty, which allows for bilateral emissions trading. Essentially, Article 6 has become a green fig leaf to greenwash LNG exports.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

And while there are instructive parallels with the catalytic impact of the Paris Agreement on identifying and mitigating climate risks by the private sector, there are also important differences. Critically, assessing nature risks is undoubtedly a more multi-faceted process than counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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James Militzer

JULY 12, 2023

Based on these reports, it’s understandable for people to conclude that carbon credits are nothing but greenwashing — a charade designed to allow big corporations to pretend to take climate action while making no real effort to reduce their actual emissions. Bilateral agreements to allow trading between countries, under Article 6.2

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In this article, you will learn what net-zero companies are, why embark in such endeavour and how to make your net-zero targets credible. After the signature of the Paris Agreement in 2015, science has become widely accepted. Still, many organizations struggle to make their first steps to become Net-Zero companies.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 3, 2024

This article first appeared in Forbes. There have been bad faith actors from the corporate world, greenwashing their activities, depleting the world’s resources, damaging the environment and wasting the planet’s and the climate movement’s time and energies.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. Article 6 of the Paris agreement approval and the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets will play a key role in increasing carbon offsets quality.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Is 'net-zero' greenwash? Setting 2050 as the year for achieving net-zero emissions (or some other goal) is one thing — that date aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement — but that 30-year horizon is a bit far off to enable reasonable accountability, perhaps deliberately so. Sponsored Article. Joel Makower.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 7, 2025

Around the world, the courts have emerged as the leading edge to compel more meaningful climate action and call greenwashing to account, with as many as 3,000 legal challenges filed in more than 55 countries. This article appeared in the Spring 2025 edition of the magazine.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Getting to net-zero – without greenwashing. The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up. Read the original article.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The intention is to align its portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Newsom also was named to a two-year term as co-chair of the Under2 Coalition, a network of states and regions looking to integrate the Paris Agreement goals with a mind to social justice. . On the other side of the U.S., New York Gov.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

In its climate marketing guide called Talk Like a Human, Potential Energy lays out tips and traps the latter of which this article has already fallen victim to. Most people dont know about the Paris Agreement, let alone the significance of 1.5C. He adds, Were getting stuck in concepts. It will continue to be business as usual.

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