Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

As Tyson’s VP of fresh meats marketing told Progressive Grocer magazine, “We are trying to be upbeat and different, with something that speaks definitively to [millennial and Gen Z consumers].” And Tyson isn’t the only one banking on planet-friendly meat to keep consumers coming back to the butcher.

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3BL Media

MAY 3, 2022

The global hub is helping to accelerate the move towards more conscious consumerism by giving consumers confidence when purchasing planet-friendly items without them having to conduct research or face a barrage of greenwashing. Ethical and Sustainable Assessment System, developed in collaboration with Ethical Consumer Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The current lack of regulation for these emerging markets has led to concerns that poor quality or low ambition schemes could create a ‘wild west’ that allows certain industries or businesses to greenwash, while also missing out on opportunities to maximise benefits for nature and people.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Pledges and financing risk being misdirected towards scientifically uncertain, poorly planned initiatives which have few lasting impacts other than to greenwash the activities of polluters. But we need nature-based solutions that are about more than just planting trees or providing ways for companies to greenwash their reputation. “In

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

The group says it believes that the use of LCA can assist with informing evidence-based decisions on product development and design, support supply chain and procurement decisions, track performance over time of packaging changes, improve overall environmental outcomes in line with strategy and policy, and challenge misinformation and greenwash.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The funding enables Permutable to combine the latest machine learning technology with Permutable’s knowledge of changing carbon emission trends to help governments and companies address the urgent sustainability issues exemplified by the current climate crisis, achieve net-zero emissions globally, and avoid greenwashing.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Such bioplastics have effectively been ‘greenwashed’, he said, and mis-sold to environmentally responsible consumers and companies. “It’s because they need specific manmade conditions to biodegrade, and many degrade into microplastics, which contaminate our oceans and food chain for centuries”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

Greenwashing also remains a major concern among industry insiders, with 94% of respondents believing it is prevalent in the UK. The full report and survey findings can be downloaded here.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The guideline document, which aims to tackle the ongoing problem of ‘greenwashing’, provides new consumer protections from misleading environmental claims and levels the sustainability playing field for businesses. Of course, when it’s measurable, it can be controlled, monitored, and turned into tangible change.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The responsibility for this disaster lies with Big Plastic – including major household brands – which have lobbied against progressive legislation for decades, greenwashed their environmental credentials and blamed the public for littering, rather than assuming responsibility for their own actions.”. Case study: Coca-Cola.

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Sustainability Update

APRIL 15, 2025

According to an article in Urban Land Magazine, an estimated $1.5 Snow Sports – The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has developed a Sustainability Communication Guide to help ski industry professionals enhance their sustainability communication and avoid falling into the use of so-called greenwashing practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These are the reported findings of Smoke and Mirrors, a new investigation from the Changing Markets Foundation and UKWIN, which says it has exposed greenwashing from Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK). million a year in unpaid climate harm alone.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Ultimately, we intend to cut through all the complexity, greenwashing and bureaucracy to develop our own systems to help our mostly SME customers reduce their emissions and bills, rather than simply measuring to the most accurate possible figures and endlessly planning!

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This is critical to ensure robust deliveries and avoid ‘greenwashing’ projects.” If the project indicates offsets are feasible, it lays the foundations for the development of a Falkland-Islands-specific carbon code for peatlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

This is the first real innovation that I have seen in the chemical space that is truly green, not just greenwashed. We don’t need to change consumer habits, but instead we can improve the products we make by ensuring they are not derived from fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

With its new Methane Map, Kayrros says it aims to make climate data more accessible, giving governments, international institutions, investors, insurers and individuals the power to scrutinise and verify emissions data and expose ‘greenwashing’. Users can also access extensive inventories across different asset categories.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While this study elevated a discussion about the role of nature in fighting climate change, it also raised concerns around the adverse environmental impacts of mass tree plantations, carbon offsetting schemes, and greenwashing.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

. “Furthermore, even as organisations ramp up sustainability initiatives, consumers are more skeptical than ever about corporate sustainability, as more than half believe that organisations are greenwashing their sustainability initiatives, up from 33% in 2023.”

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

The regulator there has established rules for funds seeking to use ESG, or green, in their names, highlighting the major regulatory concerns over “greenwashing”. . This produces a lot of data that takes a long time to compute,” said Eric Bramoulle, the company’s CEO in South Asia, on a call organised by The Asset magazine and Deutsche Bank.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Stephen Jamieson, Global Head of Circular Economy Solutions, SAP said: “In a climate where stricter regulations are now requiring businesses to disclose environmental impact, leaders who cannot accurately report this data risk allegations of greenwashing, and fines and reputational damage.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Companies that engage with their customers, prospects, and the wider industry on their progress against objectives will be most trusted to deliver on sustainability goals – and will avoid accusations of ‘greenwashing’ which have blighted others. Stakeholders matter.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A Target-Measure-Act approach, developed by WRAP, ensures rigorous evaluation of progress, giving transparent and publicly reported updates against targets to avoid greenwashing.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cleanup practices could also lead to greenwashing through new “plastic credit” schemes to offset the emissions of plastics through the indiscriminate use of unselective and harmful plastic removal technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

I also think greenwashing is a huge problem. As part of a team in the UNEP, I am reviewing how changes in the ozone layer can affect the degradation of plastic to microplastics and beyond. Everybody knows the pollution plastic is causing, so the question has to be why are shops and other retailers still using it?

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cancelling oil industry greenwash There’s a growing consensus that the PR companies involved in greenwashed campaigns need to be held to account. Humble Oil (Now ExxonMobile) advertisement in Life magazine, June 1962 Edelman remains intransigent. She went on to testify before a 2022 U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

Anything less is a breach of its legal duties and amounts to greenwashing and climate delay. ClientEarth Senior Lawyer Sam Hunter Jones said: “It’s not enough for the UK Government simply to have a net zero strategy, it needs to include real-world policies that ensure it succeeds.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sustainability Magazine strikes a more optimistic tone in its predictions for major trends in 2025. Among these trends are sustainability disclosure requirements becoming more stringent and standardized globally, with companies facing increased scrutiny and potential penalties for greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Earlier this year Coldplay announced that its air travel would be powered by green jet fuel but was then accused of greenwashing for partnering with Neste, whose controversial “sustainable aviation fuel” might not be entirely green. If the music industry thinks it’s immune to the impacts of climate, it’s so naive,” she says. “We

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

We did a study a couple years ago in conjunction with Site Selection Magazine , on this topic. Professor Yilin Shi (a CSRHub subscriber) reported evidence that many companies may be “greenwashing” their supply chains. Where Companies Expand. They needed to fit into the culture they were joining.

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Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Sustainability Magazine strikes a more optimistic tone in its predictions for major trends in 2025. Among these trends are sustainability disclosure requirements becoming more stringent and standardized globally, with companies facing increased scrutiny and potential penalties for greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. Wall of greenwash? In some communities, the people turned to cultivating trees placed strategically within fields, using root stock on already-cleared land.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 9, 2025

Colvin says the introduction of the CMAs new powers on the 6th should be a prompt for UK businesses to invest in sustainability professionals, who can rigorously screen proposed advertising materials to avoid allegations of greenwashing and associated penalties.

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