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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.

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Intent on Impact

Chris Hall

The Impact Investing Principles have been really helpful, especially given the increased scrutiny of funds and concerns over greenwashing. We believe there is an opportunity cost in negative screening or exclusionary approaches, because you may miss out on the benefits from the [transition] opportunity.

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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.

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

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. Divestment is different from ESG, which is different from impact investing. 2023-06-30 U.S.