Remove Climate Change Remove Divestment Remove Greenwashing Remove Negative Screening
article thumbnail

Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

EE: There’s a general concern about greenwashing and the dissonance between what many companies say they believe about ESG issues and what they are actually doing. Do you feel corporate greenwashing has increased or decreased from the 1970s and ’80s? Both divestment and shareholder action have a role.

article thumbnail

List of Clean 200 companies captures the green transition in full flight

Corporate Knights

along with ongoing corporate greenwashing and fossil-fuel disinformation, it’s sometimes hard to tell if society is moving forward or slipping back. In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” The Clean200 uses negative screens.