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Sustainability in Packaging: Facts Instead of Buzzwords

Sphera

Aside from the potential environmental impact of their packaging choices, companies should also consider aspects like social sustainability, supply chain resilience and packaging functionality.?. Or biodiversity loss that might be caused by your packaging supply chain? Human exploitation? Child labor?

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Guest Post: Six Steps Leaders Can Take to Accelerate Their Sustainability Transformation Efforts

ESG Today

According to The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements , it is mandated for organizations to conduct a double materiality assessment, which in turn helps them determine which sustainability issues are material and should be included in their emissions reporting.

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How to Build a Sustainable Future

Chris Hall

While progress was uneven, it was achieved against a radically changing geopolitical backdrop, and reinforced by moves in the US to mandate climate risk disclosures by corporates and discourage greenwashing by fund providers. We’ve got data on issues like pay gaps, supply chain policies, labour rights, CEO-to-average-worker wage ratios, etc.

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Take Five: Australia’s Long Haul

Chris Hall

Green light for greenwashing – The US Inflation Reduction Act is widely seen as giving the green light to green investments, due to the incentives it provides for allocating capital to renewable energy projects and technologies, but will it also fuel greenwashing? Not if the SEC has its way.

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Roundtable: In Pursuit of Value, not Values

Chris Hall

The likely challenges to SEC’s climate risk disclosure rule reflects a wider anti-ESG backlash, partly fuelled by the scepticism that accompanies greenwashing scandals, but also driven by the culture wars between conservatives and liberals that have characterised US politics in recent years. Curbing greenwashing. Anti-ESG backlash.

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ESG’s Backlash Demands Better Data

Chris Hall

Richard Hardyment, Head of Engagement at the Institute of Business Ethics, calls for a revolution in the mechanics of measurement to realise sustainable finance’s potential. There are accusations of greenwashing from one side, ‘wokeism’ from another, and a lingering question on everyone’s lips: is it making a difference?