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Majority of Investors Planning to Increase Sustainable Investments this Year: Morgan Stanley Survey

ESG Today

Additionally, more than half of respondents reported that they would only invest in traditional energy companies if they have robust plans to reduce emissions, and 60% said that they would be likely to purchase carbon offsets for their investment portfolios, if available. Click here to access the report.

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Defra funds project to sequester carbon in peatlands of the Falklands

Envirotec Magazine

Lead organisation Falklands Conservation recently introduced the project at an annual “Farmers’ Week” event, which brings together a large proportion of the island community. If the project indicates offsets are feasible, it lays the foundations for the development of a Falkland-Islands-specific carbon code for peatlands.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

In this article, I’ll summarise key events defining 2022 and present four sustainability trends that will prepare you to create an impact in 2023. In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends.

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The music industry changes its tune on climate change

Corporate Knights

Aiming to create a carbon-negative album release, they calculated the “cradle-to-grave” carbon impact of both a CD and vinyl LP from manufacturing to shipping, from its life in a fan’s stereo to its likely afterlife in a landfill 100 years from now. There are a few potential reasons for that. The industry is small and slow to change.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

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. Countries and companies have taken responsibility for climate change and raised their carbon emissions reduction ambition. Carbon Offsets Market growth.

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

Corporate Knights

In any event, critics note, the system only deals with the downstream issue of plastic already in the environment, and not the issue of the manufacture and use of plastic in the first place. ACC’s Dewing counters that “people say this is greenwashing. But] this is not greenwashing at all. appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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What Net-Zero companies are and How to start the journey

Carlos Sanchez

Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. To increase carbon removals , the company must promote carbon removals projects, also called carbon sinks, within its operations or in its value chain.