GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. These leaders understood the direct linkage between climate change and financial risk. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Decarbonisation strategies are not keeping pace with the commitments being made by some of the world’s most polluting companies, Climate Action 100+ (CA100+)’s latest Net Zero Company Benchmark update has found. Renewed engagement.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Episode 248: Mastercard CSO, parsing plastics policy, Paris Agreement at 5. Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals? Happy 5th anniversary, Paris Agreement (39:25) . Climate change and healthcare (53:45) . Paris Agreement. Heather Clancy.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

If you thought the first two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviews on climate science made for bleak reading, then the third instalment will be the hardest yet to digest. . He is disappointed more has not been achieved since the Paris Agreement. . “In We are way off the pace to achieve this.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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.". Climate Strategy.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To be truly robust, bank rules would need to mandate climate transition plans that include criteria cutting support to fossil fuel development, identify a clear definition of greenwashing and minimum criteria on all sustainability-themed products, funds and ratings, and introduce capital requirements for fossil fuel assets.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The suit marks the latest in a series of shareholder and legal challenges to face Shell over its energy transition strategy, including a complaint filed earlier this month to the SEC by advocacy group Global Witness accusing the company of greenwashing by misleading investors about the amount of investment it is directing towards renewable energy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

This steep growth marks SBTi as a focal point of corporate climate action, said Guy Turner, Head of Carbon Markets at MSCI. “It But SBTi’s status as the gold standard for companies serious about decarbonising in line with the Paris Agreement took a serious hit last month after a highly public spat between staff and executives.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

UK pension schemes will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Paris Agreement from October, but will also be given greater flexibility to make climate-positive investments as well as new stewardship guidance, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed today. degrees Celsius.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities. Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

When it comes to gathering the collective will to tackle climate change, it is often argued that public policy actions and private sector commitments are mutually reinforcing, spurring each side to go further and faster. The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

The GAR shows a bank’s ‘green’ assets as a proportion of total assets, while the BTAR measures how a bank’s activities contribute to EU climate goals, showing the extent to which they are financing environmentally sustainable activities.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

To prove his point, Usher notes the investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into greenwashing allegations made in the Wall Street Journal by a former executive of asset management firm DWS. Fancy writes: “To fix our system and curb a growing [greenwashing] disaster, we need government to fix the rules.”.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

As the urgency to address climate change intensifies, institutional investors have a crucial role to play in driving sustainable practices and advancing climate actions. This resulted in concerns over greenwashing accusations and uncertainty surrounding the interpretation of sustainable investments.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

C - 2° C compared to the pre-industrial era, to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. Science-based targets show businesses how much and how quickly they need to reduce their GHG emissions to limit/counteract climate change. C to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. Were the sustainability measures and corporate social responsibility offices at VW simply engaged in greenwashing?

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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

JULY 25, 2023

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2022

New tool identifies greenwashing, finds GFANZ exclusion policies lagging net zero pledges. The tracker detects greenwashing practices in the finance sector, said Director Lucie Pinson. “It At the upcoming Barclays AGM in May, shareholders will be given a vote on its new climate commitments, published today.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . Phasing down and out .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Regulators around the world are considering increasing their scrutiny of companies’ emissions-reduction claims in a bid to dispel greenwashing concerns. . Companies will have to maintain good corporate practice on climate change, including a public commitment to reaching net zero by 2050.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Historic progress was made with countries agreeing to channel financial support to vulnerable communities that are already suffering devastating impacts from climate change. The deal struck in Sharm El Sheikh provided little towards changing that trend. Business looks to Dubai to deliver a breakthrough at COP28.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Debates are currently underway in both the EU and the US about how companies should report on the risks that climate change is bringing to their business – and vice versa. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Investors behind resolutions on workers’ rights, climate change and surveillance technology, among others, were pleased to see backing in the range of 30-40%. His pledge to deliver a fair and transparent presidency, however, may be viewed with scepticism by his many critics , following recent attempts to greenwash his Wikipedia entry.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 16, 2023

The transition to a net zero economy is underway but – as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns – far greater efforts are needed from governments and business to limit global warming to 1.5°C C and avoid the most disastrous impacts of climate change. However, only 0.4% C above pre-industrial levels.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2023

Net Zero Insurance Alliance plan leaves door open to greenwashing, claim campaigners. But there are concerns the flexibility handed to members and other insurers will not change the sector’s current slow pace of decarbonisation. The protocol is a microcosm of the challenges facing the industry.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 17, 2022

Growing concern about climate change added pressure to reduce a company’s carbon footprint. The Global Reporting Initiative assesses company activities and supply chains for a wide range of ESG impacts: Environmental: climate change, resource depletion, waste and pollution, deforestation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

What is required is systemic change. Every organisation and every individual must embrace their own responsibility for climate change. Above all, the climate emergency needs to be made personal. Concerns over corporate greenwash are widespread. Support moves to ensure climate misconduct faces court sanction.

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Chris Hall

JULY 11, 2022

In March, a group of institutional investors, including Swedish pension scheme AP7, also launched a 14-point disclosure standard to ensure investee companies’ climate change lobbying aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement. . Members of the Joint ECON/ENVI Committee previously objected to the DA. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures. It ignores that some investments are still enabling climate change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New mechanisms for keeping private sector climate promises have taken big steps forward at COP27 this week, while major banks provided limited visibility on their path to net zero. . The 17-member group is chaired by Catherine McKenna, a former Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change. . “We

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. Climate science is clear. We need to cut greenhouse emissions rapidly in this decade to avoid the catastrophic and unpredictable effects of climate change. Offsetting is often a dangerous climate lie.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

In the UK, a Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG) was created to support the development of a green taxonomy, intended to provide a universal framework to define investments that are environmentally sustainable as well as to help businesses avoid greenwashing claims. What does a credible strategy look like?

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2022

Greenwashing is over. The ESRSs will specify disclosure requirements on impacts across all ESG topics from climate change to circular economy to biodiversity to human rights. The ESRSs ere developed with input from GRI and are currently undergoing consultation before being presented to the European Commission.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As they work towards their climate goals, companies must prioritize people – and the just transition has been a key theme at this COP. This will make greenwashing easier to detect and allow those companies that are really delivering on climate action to show their impact.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

The taskforce will also consider guidance on avoiding greenwashing strategies, and the simplification of assessing, comparing and interpreting transition plans. . C of global warming promised by signatories of the Paris Agreement. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2023

And frankly is greenwashing. When they don’t get policies, they can decide to vote against directors and filing shareholder proposals.” The post US Insurers Escape Climate Censure at AGMs appeared first on ESG Investor. Last year, the resolution received 25.9% of the overall vote, but received 22.8%

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