Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

The expert panel’s assessment will include how low-carbon-transition efforts by corporations and sub-national governments align with national commitments made under the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit average increase in temperatures to 1.5°C.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 28, 2024

To stimulate vivid debate, expert-led clinic sessions that explained key issues in carbon markets were followed by an Oxford-style debate in the late afternoon. Carbon markets continue to garner significant interest in Kenya, where the government is currently developing a ‘Carbon Credit Trading and Benefit Sharing Bill’.

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Andreas Rache

MAY 24, 2022

To reach the commitments of the Paris agreement, the European commission has introduced new regulations as the first step of the EU action plan: the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The first level was already implemented on March 10 th 2021.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Regulation will never be sufficient to protect investors from greenwashing, says Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, EVP at RepRisk. While this is to be encouraged as a step toward the transition to a more sustainable future, focused around lower-carbon economies, this same pressure has also led to an uptick in greenwashing.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. Is net zero greenwash? The term is used to greenwash business-as-usual or even business-more-than-usual," it continued. "At Some think so.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling comes as financial institutions and other companies increasingly face regulatory scrutiny over greenwashing concerns. Earlier this year, the CEO of Deutsche Bank’s investment arm DWS resigned after police raided the firms’ Frankfurt offices as part of an investigation into greenwashing allegations.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Notably, oil and gas companies within CA100+’s portfolio of 159 focus companies are still commissioning projects that do not align with Paris Agreement goals, while an overwhelming number of electric utility companies are not building out sufficient renewable energy capacity. Renewed engagement.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Episode 248: Mastercard CSO, parsing plastics policy, Paris Agreement at 5. Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals? Happy 5th anniversary, Paris Agreement (39:25) . Paris Agreement. Heather Clancy. Fri, 12/11/2020 - 00:10. Week in Review. Contributors.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2024

“However, compared to the findings of our inaugural report, we are disappointed to see only incremental progress; Canada’s pension sector is still not on a pathway aligned with the Paris Agreement,” said Britt Runeckles, Pensions Campaigner at Shift, a charity which engages with pension funds and their beneficiaries on climate issues.

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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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“If the UK is to attract the capital needed to lead the global transition to a more sustainable future, creating jobs and economic prosperity, we must build investor confidence, address greenwashing risks, and tackle more of the UK’s underlying investment barriers. The Chancellor didn’t go far enough.”

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To be truly robust, bank rules would need to mandate climate transition plans that include criteria cutting support to fossil fuel development, identify a clear definition of greenwashing and minimum criteria on all sustainability-themed products, funds and ratings, and introduce capital requirements for fossil fuel assets.

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ESG Today

JULY 8, 2022

The index is designed to meet the minimum standards for EU Climate Transition Benchmarks (CTB) Regulation to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and help mitigate the risk of greenwashing. CTB criteria include 7% annual decarbonization, and a 30% minimum reduction in GHG emissions intensity relative to the market index.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

"Climate-themed" funds sold by some of the world's biggest asset managers are failing to live up to the climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement. The screws are being tightened on managers of ESG-labelled investment funds as a result.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

C warming target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and there must be a “rapid acceleration of mitigation efforts after 2030” if there is any hope of limiting global temperature increases to 2°C. . He is disappointed more has not been achieved since the Paris Agreement. . “In

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A recent report by the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) forecasts that climate policy will continue to accelerate, driven in part by the twin Paris Agreement Global Stocktake/Ratchet cycles between now and 2030. C in the Paris Agreement; with only 3% of global policies currently moving towards the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

European efforts to bring transparency to ESG funds haven’t addressed fears of greenwashing. Different approaches to product classification have sown confusion and raised greenwashing concerns among both institutional and retail investors. While SFDR was designed to avoid greenwashing, it has not achieved its objective.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. The Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2024

“However, compared to the findings of our inaugural report, we are disappointed to see only incremental progress; Canada’s pension sector is still not on a pathway aligned with the Paris Agreement,” said Britt Runeckles, Pensions Campaigner at Shift, a charity which engages with pension funds and their beneficiaries on climate issues.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.".

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Sustainability Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Corporate sustainability goals often align with published, globally endorsed agreements such as those of the Paris Agreement and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Companies of all sizes, from all industries, are now focusing on another non-negotiable of business — sustainability. Make them personal.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

UK pension schemes will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Paris Agreement from October, but will also be given greater flexibility to make climate-positive investments as well as new stewardship guidance, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed today. Paris alignment. degrees Celsius.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action. Ateli Iyalla. Mon, 12/14/2020 - 00:05.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2022

New tool identifies greenwashing, finds GFANZ exclusion policies lagging net zero pledges. The tracker detects greenwashing practices in the finance sector, said Director Lucie Pinson. “It Many of the current policies of banks, insurers and investors are “too flawed” to align their businesses with their net zero 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

The two ratios are expected to create pressure for banks to adopt more sustainable business strategies and help stamp out greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Alongside the progress of a bill in California calling for fossil fuel divestment by public-sector pensions, and the SEC’s plans for climate-risk disclosures , this new assault on greenwashing moves US policy closer to its European counterparts, where fund disclosure rules are already reshaping the market.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The document also holds out the possibility of subsidies for carbon trading deals under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, and for Indigenous participation in fossil fuel projects.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These categories mirror the three product labels proposed by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) last year as part of its Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) which aim to crack down on greenwashing. The label will also require a transition plan aligned with the Paris Agreement.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The suit marks the latest in a series of shareholder and legal challenges to face Shell over its energy transition strategy, including a complaint filed earlier this month to the SEC by advocacy group Global Witness accusing the company of greenwashing by misleading investors about the amount of investment it is directing towards renewable energy.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

To prove his point, Usher notes the investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into greenwashing allegations made in the Wall Street Journal by a former executive of asset management firm DWS. Fancy writes: “To fix our system and curb a growing [greenwashing] disaster, we need government to fix the rules.”.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But Ecojustice lawyer Matt Hulse said Canada’s current regulatory system still requires citizens to play “whack-a-mole” against the behaviour of individual banks, rather than taking a systemic approach to greenwashing and fossil fuel finance. This is disingenuous greenwashing at best, and unlawful at worst.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In the Paris Agreement, world governments committed to curbing global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

This resulted in concerns over greenwashing accusations and uncertainty surrounding the interpretation of sustainable investments. In late 2022 and early 2023, a significant number of Article 9 funds were downgraded to Article 8 due to stricter regulatory guidance.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . Phasing down and out .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Regulators around the world are considering increasing their scrutiny of companies’ emissions-reduction claims in a bid to dispel greenwashing concerns. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. As responsible investors search for the most sustainable companies to back, the outcomes of these debates could not be more important for global efforts to rapidly cut emissions.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

make greenwashing easier to detect and allow companies that are really delivering on climate action to stand out from the crowd. This will identify the actual emissions cuts that countries have made since the Paris Agreement was signed and allow us to accurately understand progress towards cutting emissions in half by 2030.

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