ESG Today

APRIL 24, 2024

Sacha Sadan, FCA’s Director of Environmental, Social and Governance, said: “Confirming the new anti-greenwashing guidance and our proposals to extend the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels regime are important milestones that maintain the UK’s place at the forefront of sustainable investment.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

That means avoiding “greenwashing,” or false communications about environmental action. Greenwashing is a big problem. You’ve probably heard of greenwashing. We define greenwashing and explain why it hurts your company. What Is Greenwashing? Greenwashing can be either intentional or unintentional.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

A lack of engagement with key stakeholders and timing of greenwashing investigation among criticisms levelled at European Supervisory Authorities. Enforcement needed to tackle greenwashing Fixler said on LinkedIn that these actions “did more to tackle greenwashing than the entirety of SFDR [EU Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation].”

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

FCA-hosted TechSprint aims to harness technology innovation to outpace adverse impacts of greenwashing in financial services. At yesterday’s culmination of the Global Financial Innovation Network’s (GFIN) first Greenwashing TechSprint , awards were presented based on different criteria.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Key focus areas outlined in the new EBA roadmap include improving transparency on ESG issues, ensuring that ESG-related risks are integrated in financial institutions’ risk management frameworks, and addressing greenwashing risks. Click here to access the EBA Roadmap on Sustainable Finance.

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ESG Today

MARCH 22, 2023

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled the proposed “Directive on Green Claims,” a new set of rules requiring companies to substantiate and verify their environmental claims and labels, aimed at protecting consumers from greenwashing. Unfortunately, way too often these claims are made with no evidence and justification whatsoever.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Key sources of greenwashing risk identified by the regulators included claims about sustainability impact and company engagement made by asset managers, litigation risk related to misleading ESG claims made by banks, and misleading product claims by pension and insurance providers.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has informed asset managers that it will be testing the ESG and sustainable investing claims made in their communications with investors, as part of its efforts to reduce greenwashing risk.

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Sustainability Update

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Report on every environmental initiative and face allegations of greenwashing? Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Greenmuting vs Greenwashing First, we must understand the extremes on both sides. Yet, it is difficult to let go of the fear of being called a dreaded greenwasher.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Australia’s competition regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced today the release of its final guidance on environmental claims, aimed at helping companies comply with rules to avoid misleading green marketing and advertising green claims, and protecting consumers from greenwashing.

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B the Change

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A look at how to spot greenwashing and learn from companies that are telling transparent stories about their environmental footprint. We talk about how to spot greenwashing and learn from companies that are telling transparent stories about their environmental footprint. How can these same players combat greenwashing?

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2023

In the letter, signed by FCA Director of ESG Sacha Sadan, the FCA wrote: “A number of the issues identified have informed our observations about the possibility of potential risks to market integrity and suspicion of greenwashing in the context of SLLs.”

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The greenwashing case was brought by Austria’s Association for Consumer Information (VKI). The case marked the latest in a series of greenwashing challenges for airlines. Austrian Airlines is a subsidiary of Lufthansa which was also found to have misled consumers through greenwashing earlier this year. between Vienna and Venice.

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ESG Today

MAY 31, 2023

The lawsuit comes as companies globally face increasing scrutiny of their environmental sustainability claims, with consumers and regulators increasingly on the lookout for greenwashing, or claims that exaggerate or misrepresent the impact or sustainability profile of products and business operations.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

The global investment community is walking a “tightrope” between greenwashing and green blushing as it strives to stay abreast of regulatory developments that continuously ramp up accountability on sustainable investing, industry sources have sad.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

The report said greenwashing as a key concern for asset owners, with asset managers “overstating or providing unclear messaging” on their level of commitment to sustainability. consider ESG a top product development initiative. S. consider ESG a top product development initiative.

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Richard Matthews

JUNE 21, 2023

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is working hard to sell sustainable development and green energy as the country prepares to host COP28 later this year. The UAE’s efforts to position itself as a climate […] The post UAE’s Fossil fuel Lobbying is Greenwashing appeared first on Change Oracle.

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2022

Providing enhanced transparency with factual ESG data means investors can create better funds and avoid greenwashing concerns. Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to the ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.”. The outcome is a seamless approach to customized sustainable investing.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

The European supervisory authorities (ESAs) and EU national competent authorities (NCAs) will need to build out their in-house resources and skill sets to effectively identify and handle instances of greenwashing by financial institutions, but greater guidance is recommended by observers rather than new waves of regulation.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have issued a Call for Evidence to stakeholders on greenwashing. . The ESAs have also asked for any available data to help them gain a more concrete sense of the scale of greenwashing and areas of particularly high risk. .

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Greenwatch Project, which launched last year, is developing artificial intelligence-based methods to detect greenwashing, in order to improve the measurement of progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read the full story in The Irish Times. Read more →

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Greenwashing has emerged as a significant concern for businesses, according to the survey, with two-thirds of executives reporting that it has become a serious concern in their industries. The post Greenwashing Top of Mind for Execs, as War & Inflation Threaten Corporate Climate Progress: Deloitte appeared first on ESG Today.

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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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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2022

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued new guidance to help funds avoid ‘greenwashing’ and enhance disclosures when offering or promoting sustainability-related products. Greenwashing will continue to be a priority area of focus for ASIC.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

Global standards-setting board the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) announced today the release of its new proposed standards for ethical considerations in sustainability reporting and assurance, aimed at mitigating greenwashing and elevating the quality of reported sustainability information.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 25, 2022

Plans by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to crack down on greenwashing by fund managers must be revised to cover not just environmental but human rights issues. In March 2022, Inclusive Development International co-published a report which found that ESG-labelled funds held at least US$13.4

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Pork producer Danish Crown has been forced to back-track on its company-developed eco-label the ‘climate-controlled pig’ as Denmark pays increasing attention to climate labels amid allegations of greenwashing. Read the full story at Food Navigator. Read more →

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GreenBiz

JUNE 26, 2023

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 16, 2023

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has described the initial 'greenwashing' definition proposed by EU regulators as "excessively broad" and "unhelpful" towards developing regulatory approaches to the issue.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Asset managers should expect and prepare to be challenged on the sustainability credentials of their ESG-labelled funds as financial markets watchdogs clamp down on greenwashing, according to regulatory experts. . Growing concerns over greenwashing and mislabelling were highlighted in a 2021 report published by think tank InfluenceMap. .

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 30, 2024

2023 saw terms like “ESG,” “greenwashing,” and “circular economy” come into common use. We also saw a tsunami of other environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related developments at the international, federal, and state levels. Read the full story from ArentFox Schiff.

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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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Sustainability Matters

MAY 14, 2023

Out of Australia’s top 250 public companies, 96% report on sustainability performance, but a recent ACCC internet sweep has raised high-level greenwashing concerns with 57% of the 247 businesses reviewed reporting concerning claims regarding environmental credentials.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 27, 2021

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original How a collective of Black developers is raising equity for inclusive real estate in Philadelphia. The post The Brief: Inclusive real estate in Philadelphia, community solar in NYC, scaling edtech in India, regulating greenwashing, insurgents at Exxon appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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. Alistair Maltby, Director of Estate and Woodland Outreach at the Woodland Trust, says: “Everyone involved in nature conservation is alive to the risk of greenwash.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 27, 2021

Editor’s note : This is the first of two articles published concerning greenwashing, both historically and at present. What is Greenwashing and How does It Work? Products are greenwashed through the process of renaming, rebranding or repacking. Large scale greenwashing companies have made headlines over the years.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2022

The proposals are in response to increasing concerns raised by investors that current rules are potentially facilitating greenwashing, misleading customers over products’ underlying holdings. . 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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