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Companies Who Communicate Breakthrough When Facing Greenwashing Scrutiny

3BL Media

This week we’re diving into the scrutiny (earned or not) brands face when they make net-zero promises. Companies are facing increased investigations into their strategies, plans, and commitments to reduce their GHG emissions – not just get to net-zero, which can be overly reliant on carbon offsets.

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Take Five: Is Your Cup Half-full or Half-empty?

Chris Hall

Rachel Reeves is not the first Chancellor of the Exchequer to commit to pursuing policies to deliver net zero. billion) in capital investment over the next five years, enabled by a change to the government’s fiscal rules, some of which will be channeled into the net zero transition via GB Energy and the National Wealth Fund.

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Take Five: Bound by Destiny

Chris Hall

According to a recent blog by Emine Isciel , Co-chair of the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, a critical factor will be reducing existing harmful financial flows. What this bodes for the Net Zero Data Public Utility we shall soon find out, in Bonn probably.

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ESG Global Trends in 2022

3BL Media

That action is increasingly associated with elements of ESG, sustainability and reporting frameworks to benchmark progress against lofty goals toward a net-zero future. If they can’t communicate their sustainability initiatives along with the data to support it they will run the risk of being seen as greenwashing.

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Take Five: The Wrong Signal

Chris Hall

As regulatory and policy experts called for better use of existing tools to tackle greenwashing , rather than imposing further new ones, tempers frayed in the European Parliament on related measures, notably around protecting biodiversity , while European scientists underlined that it’s not just the political clock that is ticking.

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Integrity, Flexibility and the Carbon Markets

Chris Hall

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.

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RBC’s climate retreat sparks debate over anti-greenwashing law

Corporate Knights

When the Royal Bank of Canada recently disclosed it was dropping some of its most important climate pledges, it pointed the blame at Canadas anti-greenwashing legislation. banks exited the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, the global climate network for banks. The campaign came a few months after all major Canadian and U.S.