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My Green Lab Launches ACT Ecolabel 2.0: Setting the Global Standard for Sustainable Laboratory Products

3BL Media

Building on years of collaboration with scientists, manufacturers, procurement professionals, and sustainability experts, ACT Ecolabel 2.0 It enables manufacturers to credibly showcase sustainability performance and empowers procurement teams to make informed, sustainability-aligned purchasing decisions with confidence.

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These 50 Canadian corporations are carving out a more sustainable future

Corporate Knights

Yes, greenwashing and window-dressing still dominate the business landscape, but rankings like the Best 50 prove that progress is possible. — Toby Heaps, Corporate Knights publisher and CEO These programs offer proof that businesses can genuinely move the needle on real issues that matter to Canadians and to the environment.

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EU Regulators Find Growing Greenwashing Risk for Banks, Asset Managers

ESG Today

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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B Lab Forces for Good Podcast: How Can Business Combat Greenwashing?

B the Change

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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A look at the secret world where our waste ends up

Corporate Knights

Those cheaper materials, paired with outsourced labor, efficient manufacturing and reduced trade barriers, caused the price of consumer goods to plummet. And earlier this month, United Nations negotiators released a draft of the global plastics treaty , which, among other things, outlines a plan to reduce the manufacture of new plastics.

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Climate labels, greenwashing and the row over the ‘climate-controlled pig’

Environmental News Bits

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 more →

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Canadian Regulator Launches Greenwashing Investigation into Lululemon Environmental Claims

ESG Today

The Stand.earth complaint outlined a series of alleged “false or misleading public representations” made by lululemon in the context of its Be Planet program.