Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Something significant is happening in the desert in Egypt as countries meet at COP27 , the United Nations summit on climate change. Climate finance has been one of the thorniest issues in global climate negotiations for decades, but I’m seeing four promising signs of progress at COP27. One year on, something is stirring.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Jordan Locke, a recruitment consultant in Acre's Global Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing Team, sat down with Business Insider alongside a group of industry experts to discuss the current ESG talent shortage, ‘greenwashing’ and the rapid pace of change. . Greenwashing kind of falls into that same skepticism.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted last week, we are in the midst of a climate emergency. At the same time, Canada’s financial system continues to pump billions of dollars into fossil fuel developments. All regulators must be de facto climate regulators.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 2, 2024

This is not the first time that freedom of speech has been raised to sidestep legal responsibilities related to climate change. In 2019, ExxonMobil used free speech as a defence to dismiss a “deceptive advertising” suit related to climate change. Ottawa is also engaged. The rules are also supported by the broader public.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It published its Nature Markets Framework in May and is working with the British Standards Institute to develop robust standards for green financing. Well-regulated nature markets could be one way that we help grow business investment in restoring nature and responding to climate change, all whilst benefiting local communities.”

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ESG Today

APRIL 11, 2024

Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted on Wednesday to adopt a new law aimed at establishing a certification system to quantify, monitor and verify carbon removals, and to counter greenwashing. Carbon removal solutions range from industrial technologies such as Direct Air Capture projects to natural carbon sinks.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. Uneven COVID-19 vaccine distribution between developed and developing countries is a case in point.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

Matthew Shankland, Head of Sidley Austin’s London-based Disputes Resolution Practice, outlines how i nvestor s can mitigate against the increased risk of greenwashing-related issues in company advertising. Under English law, there is no specific cause of action for, or law governing, greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Governments are being called on to put some regulatory muscle behind corporate net-zero pledges to ensure they don’t amount to mere greenwashing. . It comes at a challenging time for those who want more aggressive climate action. . We must have zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing. -UN They must also: .

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Carbon removal is emerging as a key tool in the fight to address climate change, although most technologies and solutions to capture and store carbon from the atmosphere remain at fairly early stages. According to the landmark IPCC climate change mitigation study released in 2022, scenarios that limit warming to 1.5°C

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ESG Today

APRIL 21, 2023

The statement added that the green bond program is expected to begin in mid-2024, following the development of a Green Bond Framework. One of the key priorities was the development of a taxonomy to define activities and assets as sustainable for the labelling of green financial products.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The objective of the workshop was to share good practices on demand-side politics and business initiatives, fostering efforts to accelerate changes in consumer lifestyles and behaviors related to climate change and the environment.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Originally published on bloomberg.com Green finance regulatory developments The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) galvanized the energy around the global green finance agenda, setting the stage for a busy 2024 of green-related rulemaking and policy guidance for the financial services sector.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I led Canada’s Social Investment Organization (SIO) in the early 2000s, one of our most important debates concerned the question of whether the organization should develop an industry-wide label for socially responsible investment, as sustainable investing was called back then.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2022

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) proposed two rule changes on Wednesday to prevent misleading claims by US funds on their ESG credentials and increase product disclosure requirements. . As the fund industry has developed, gaps in the current Names Rule may undermine investor protection,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler. . “In

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Investors are warming to opportunities stemming from climate change, and other takeaways from COP28. COP28, the latest United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate change, delivered mixed results on some key agenda items but provided new insights into climate-related opportunities and the initiatives needed to implement them.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2023

A Google engineer got fired for predicting that rapid developments in AI would soon produce a “sentient” system. Stories have filled the media about students turning to ChatGPT to write assignments and software developers discovering that the algorithm is just as good at writing code as they are. That’s a huge risk too.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

February 29, 2024 /3BL/ - On Tuesday, March 12, Mohamed Abaas, environmental sustainability specialist from Sofidel , will present tips for cutting through greenwashing to improve scope 3 emissions and meet sustainability goals at the Clean Buildings Conference (CBC) in Baltimore. HORSHAM, Pa., customers since 2012.

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ESG Today

MAY 6, 2024

The launch marks the latest in a series of initiatives across jurisdictions to set up a classification system for the definition of sustainable economic activities, including taxonomy systems already established or in development in the EU , UK and Australia. Click here to access the Hong Kong Taxonomy.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2022

‘Greenwashing’ concerns can’t be addressed without effective reporting standards. From biodiversity loss to climate change, health crises to inequality, these challenges won’t be addressed without the end goal in mind. The GRI Standards are developed through a multi-stakeholder process and provided as a free public good.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Anti-greenwashing rules and guidance may become “diamond standard”. Anti-greenwashing guidance proposed by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as well as the promise of extending the finalised Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) to pension products, has been welcomed by the investment industry.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2022

Lack of visibility and perceptions of “greenwashing”. Greenwashing – a term for the perception of words (and marketing) outweighing action on behalf of climate change – is a risk that companies are increasingly sensitive to. Turn Risk into Reward: Join the Energy Transition Movement.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 3, 2022

But perception and reality of a company’s credentials can vary widely, and after years of media reports and widespread concern around ‘greenwashing’, the ASX recently announced a crackdown on ethical funds , joining ASIC to fight against those using the market disclosure system to fake green credentials. That’s exactly what greenwashing is.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

We had developed a strong methodology of research and engagement with companies, regulators and governments for work on a range of issues. For example, we developed a significant investor presence on issues of forest land management. Do you feel corporate greenwashing has increased or decreased from the 1970s and ’80s?

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Climate change is a public health crisis,” declared Joe Vipond, president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), which sent the letter. In September, CAPE struck again, filing a greenwashing complaint with the federal Competition Bureau against the natural gas industry.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Institutional investors have made it clear that they need consistent, comparable, decision-useful climate data,” said Steven M. Assurance over corporate climate disclosure is critical to prevent greenwashing and ensure that investors can make decisions promoting long-term shareholder value and economic growth.”

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

CFA Institute and President and Chief Executive, Margaret Franklin, CFA, said: “Concerns over greenwashing and a demand for products and skills to support sustainable investing have created a real need for finance professionals to develop a deeper understanding of how these factors are impacting the industry, clients, and the world at large.”

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. Fewer than 1 percent said climate change is not a serious problem. The results reveal a strong global appetite for climate action.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Several transformational developments are in progress and acquiring increased focus and momentum. On balance, this presents more good news than bad, but this development will prove highly disruptive as even fewer young people will finance the pensions of the retired. Here are four: 1. Global population is peaking sooner and lower.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Maria Mendiluce, CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition, chats about signs of progress, the power of alliances and how companies can improve disclosure without engaging in greenwashing. . Climate change and healthcare (53:45) . What's the emissions profile of the powerful healthcare sector? How should training evolve?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The impacts of climate change continue to compromise the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of Africans. This is especially true of those that are dependent on sectors directly impacted by rapidly changing environments, such as agriculture. african-climate-conversation. Time to commit.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A UN-backed group of sustainability, business, finance and government leaders unveiled a series of recommendations aimed at developing clearer standards for net zero pledges made by businesses and other non-state entities, and avoid the use of the commitments for greenwashing. Click here to access the High-Level Expert Group report.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This concept describes how corporate information can be important both for its implications about a firm’s financial value, and about a firm’s impact on the world at large, particularly when it comes to climate change and other environmental impacts. In fact, 50% of Gen Z consumers believe that organizations or brands are greenwashing.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

If the goal of purchasing renewable energy is to mitigate climate change, then it is critical to understand the greenhouse gas emissions benefits for individual projects. Any net-zero plan that is serious about addressing climate change must include rapid decarbonization. Amazon , IBM , Nestle , General Motors and Google.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

This year, investors filed resolutions at seven major US and Canadian banks — Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Royal Bank of Canada — urging these banks to adopt policies to phase-out clients engaging in new fossil fuel exploration and development.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Many of the potential building blocks are already in place, suggested Ellis, adding that existing sector-specific nature-positive pathways, such as those developed by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development , needed to be translated to local requirements.

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