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Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29?

Corporate Knights

The climate plans of both companies, like those of the majority of the fossil fuel industry, are incompatible with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement between nations to keep global heating “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 This article was first published on DeSmog. Read the original story here.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing. RELATED Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29?

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Is the Competition Bureau's probe into RBC's climate claims a warning to other banks?

Corporate Knights

But Ecojustice lawyer Matt Hulse said Canada’s current regulatory system still requires citizens to play “whack-a-mole” against the behaviour of individual banks, rather than taking a systemic approach to greenwashing and fossil fuel finance. This is disingenuous greenwashing at best, and unlawful at worst.

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OECD Warns of Climate-alignment “Blind Spot”

Chris Hall

The OECD report analysed how the climate alignment of finance globally is assessed, the current degree of alignment, and how financial sector and real economy policies and actions influence alignment with Article 2.1c

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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. Is net zero greenwash? The term is used to greenwash business-as-usual or even business-more-than-usual," it continued. "At Sponsored Article.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.".

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First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action?

GreenBiz

Signatories agree to implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement. Because yahoos such as me write critical columns about how they’re greenwashing or failing to do enough. This article is adapted from GreenBiz's newsletter Energy Weekly, running Thursdays. Sponsored Article. Zero Emissions.