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The key to combatting greenwashing? An empowered marketing team

Corporate Knights

Increasingly savvy customers want to know about the green options that exist, and a vast majority also want to know what makes them “green.” This shifting trend, combined with the global anti-greenwashing regulatory crackdown spurred by the U.K., the EU, the U.S.

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The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets

GreenBiz

The potential for greenwashing is high. Many of these projects also have a social mission and could support local economic development such as providing fair wages for waste collectors and generating new job opportunities. Given that U.S.

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Is the burgeoning 'plastic credits' market a new wave of greenwashing?

Corporate Knights

ACC’s Deekali Plastic Project in Senegal provides paying jobs for landfill waste pickers, says managing director Nicole Dewing. The unaltered stomach contents of a dead albatross chick photographed on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific in September 2009 include plastic marine debris fed the chick by its parents.

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The JUST Report: COP28 Highlights the Need for Stakeholder Model on Global Scale

Just Capital

How does the world address climate change while safeguarding economies, acknowledging disparities, protecting worker well-being and jobs, meeting consumer needs, and supporting communities? How do we advance a just transition ? These are questions that JUST’s work is grounded in. workforce seek to unionize.

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Green to the core? Top business schools are drilling sustainability into their core curricula

Corporate Knights

It credits all core content relating to environmental, social and governance performance, with topics ranging from biodiversity to carbon pricing, Indigenous consultation, child labour, corruption reduction and employment equity.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

It’s the artist’s job to make the revolution irresistible,” George says, referring to a quote from Toni Cade Bambara that “changed everything” for her. “I It’s fascinating to see the mining industry trying to capitalize on these disasters to justify even more greenwashed destructive projects,” he says.

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

Conversely, nature-positive business opportunities could add 232 million jobs and generate US$4.3 Regulators in APAC and beyond increasingly are alert to the risks of greenwashing, imposing new requirements to ensure that the contents of sustainable funds justify their labels and marketing claims.