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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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We’re here to disrupt the old mindset, digitizing climate action and demolishing the market barriers and roadblocks that have too long stood in the way of progress. Our ESG frameworks, reporting, progress, and verification will live largely in blockchains and even in the metaverse, decentralized and transparent to prevent greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences. Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.” The post This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Impact Cubed Tools Target Greenwashing appeared first on ESG Investor. The domestic Indonesian carbon market will be linked to ACX’s international client order book.

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ESG Today

MAY 5, 2024

Million Carbonfact Raises $15 Million for Emissions Reporting Solution for Fashion Industry U.S.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. A "Digital Technology and the Planet" report from the Royal Society in London recently suggested citizens soon could be use their mobile devices to capture and share emissions data in real time.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The Smart Africa Secretariat and Ericsson have entered a collaboration that will support Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA)’s mission of promoting digital transformation across Africa through education and capacity development. He wrote: “The climate movement desperately needs another story. does not work. Read more here: [link].

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3BL Media

JANUARY 29, 2024

This will help avoid greenwashing claims and accelerate the drive to net zero. Social AI & Digital Twins: Changing the face of healthcare – Marie Hattar, SVP and CMO Digital twins are increasingly ubiquitous, and now, with AI-infused, they are creating a new reality in healthcare.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 23, 2024

Despite many Australian organisations committing resolutely to new ESG standards, they face hurdles in achieving their objectives due to data challenges within the supply chain, which can inadvertently lead to unintended greenwashing.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing. The proposed guidance is designed to help firms better understand the FCA’s expectations under the anti-greenwashing rule and other associated requirements.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Close the perception gap As sustainability initiatives become more prevalent across companies, consumers are becoming more skeptical of greenwashing. In fact, 50% of Gen Z consumers believe that organizations or brands are greenwashing. However, executives do not appear overly concerned with accusations of greenwashing.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This week in ESG news: BNP Paribas faces first-ever commercial bank climate lawsuit; HSBC unveils new financed emissions goals; Republicans urge Congress to block ESG investing rule; Allianz to vote against companies who don’t tie pay to ESG goals; United Airlines launches venture fund for sustainable aviation fuel startups; India proposes ESG investing (..)

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

We used to be concerned about greenwashing, but now it seems that many companies are deliberately staying quiet in what some are calling greenhushing – the practice of downplaying or keeping quiet about their sustainability initiatives. But big financial firms like BlackRock aren’t talking about it anymore. 2023-06-30 U.S.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Regulators have stepped in to root out greenwashing with enforcement actions and policy-making to clarify what is a sustainable investment based on factual data and more precise fund names.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2023

4 While these credits are intended to help companies meet their climate goals, it is imperative to ensure the quality and transparency of them in order to achieve genuine emission reductions and to avoid greenwashing.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the report, KPMG International’s Larry Bradley, Global Head of Audit, and Mike Shannon, Global Head of ESG Assurance, said: “To gain investor and stakeholder confidence and mitigate the risk of greenwashing, ESG reporting should be subject to a level of scrutiny comparable to the financial information that users depend on.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 19, 2023

Rising regulatory requirements Planet Tracker’s report called for investors to increase pressure on fashion retailers to invest in their supply chain partners, which would enable them to substantiate green claims about their collections at a time when regulators “appear to be taking a keener interest in potential greenwashing”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 19, 2023

Rising regulatory requirements Planet Tracker’s report called for investors to increase pressure on fashion retailers to invest in their supply chain partners, which would enable them to substantiate green claims about their collections at a time when regulators “appear to be taking a keener interest in potential greenwashing”.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These new rules, intended to counteract greenwashing, spell out the criteria for a green investment and require market participants to disclose how they are aligned with them. DESCRIPTION: LONDON, February 23, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Impact Cubed today launched its new solution to help investors meet the European Union’s (EU) Taxonomy regulation.

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ESG Today

MAY 31, 2023

Measurabl Co-Founder and CEO Matt Ellis said: “The antidote to greenwashing is objective measurement and transparency. Lindsay Luger, partner at Energy Impact Partners, said: “Measurabl has been ahead of the curve on the twin megatrends of digitalization and ESG sweeping the real estate sector.

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B the Change

AUGUST 28, 2022

Avoiding greenwashing and providing all stakeholders with social impact results of purpose-driven advertising campaigns requires a thoughtful strategy, transparency, and targeted measurement tools. Digital marketing campaigns generally deliver ambiguous results at best and tend to be divorced from measurement. A case in point: 88.5%

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Sustainable Round Table

MARCH 22, 2023

C, the European Commission wanted to ensure that companies currently engaged in greenwashing are discouraged, and those making real positive environmental impact are properly credited (this effort is built upon by another recent EU legislative proposal to prevent greenwashing in regard to physical product sustainability).

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 18, 2024

Quintrace , a digital platform developed by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners , is designed to give its customers real-time visibility into their hourly carbon footprint, while adhering to the latest carbon accounting standards for energy consumption, generation and storage.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 23, 2022

Taxonomy aims to enable the financial sector to classify green activities, facilitate monitoring of credit and investment flows, and prevent greenwashing. Indonesian president Joko Widodo announced the launch of the country’s green taxonomy at the country’s 2022 Financial Services Industry Annual Meeting on 20 January.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Now on to the good stuff: Declining confidence in institutions, the proliferation of certification programs, and confusion driven by corporate greenwashing make it harder for businesses that do the right thing to stand out. To receive these insights directly in your inbox, sign up for B The Change Weekly today.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Sceptics remain unconvinced , their reservations over financial institutions’ commitments reinforced by news of further regulatory crackdowns on greenwashing, this time at Goldman Sachs , accused of overstating the credentials of its green funds.

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James Militzer

JULY 12, 2023

Based on these reports, it’s understandable for people to conclude that carbon credits are nothing but greenwashing — a charade designed to allow big corporations to pretend to take climate action while making no real effort to reduce their actual emissions. For instance, Pachama is a U.S.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

According to a study conducted by Oxford Economics and SAP, 74% of digital transformation leaders said they’ve seen an increase in customer loyalty, 70% have seen an increase in new revenue streams, and 59% have seen a reduction in costs as a result of rethinking linear business models toward greater circularity.

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Sphera

JANUARY 25, 2023

Without auditable data, companies risk being accused of greenwashing, which occurs when companies portray their products or services as being more sustainable than they actually are.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

A large and globally impactful number of innovations are coming into play just in the nick of time.

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3BL Media

JULY 14, 2022

Recently, several brands including H&M stopped using a tool that tries to measure the sustainability of garments over concerns about greenwashing. Fashion retail brands are also increasingly conscious that performing poorly on sustainability and protecting the environment can damage their credibility.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 12, 2023

The idea of a startup launching now without a solid digital presence is unthinkable. When it comes to growth strategies and future market positioning, the public is getting better at spotting “greenwashing” – the practice of overinflating or fabricating sustainability achievements for the sake of marketing.

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Sphera

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The ever-evolving regulatory landscape, mounting investor and consumer pressures and an increase in greenwashing accusations underscore the necessity for companies to set a clearly defined sustainability roadmap aligned to business goals.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Within our global investment universe of more than 2,000 stocks aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, only 7% currently trade at price to forward earnings ratios (for the next fiscal year) in excess of 50x, while 22% have single-digit P/Es. To be sure, the sustainable investing boom is not without risks.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

Last month , ESG ratings agency EthicsGrade integrated generative AI into its corporate digital responsibility ratings and research, which look to complement the work of analysts to give users of EthicsGrade’s free platform to a “rounder summary” into why companies have been given a certain ESG rating.

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B the Change

JANUARY 29, 2023

So it’s baked into our DNA: We set out from the start to have a total 360 approach to sustainability without any greenwashing. Many brands claim to be sustainable but are often accused of “greenwashing.” It means that we put the processes in at the start and collaborated with suppliers and manufacturers to achieve them.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2023

A tracking tool recently released by third-party carbon credit verification organisation Verra – which aims to boost the transparency of carbon capture and sequestration products – is among the latest in a wave of initiatives utilising digital solutions to tackle market mistrust and confusion.

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