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Guest Post – Greenwashing, Greenhushing and Greenwishing: Don’t Fall Victim to These ESG Reporting Traps

ESG Today

While often unintentional, this discrepancy is nevertheless harmful to investors, customers, employees and others who rely on this information when making decisions. Greenhushing refers to a company’s refusal to publicize ESG information. But newer terms to the vernacular such as “greenhushing” and “greenwishing” are taking hold.

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EU Watchdogs Ask for Input on Greenwashing Risks

Chris Hall

Obtaining a more granular understanding of greenwashing will help inform policy-making and supervision and will help foster the reliability of sustainability-related claims,” they said. . More time needed .

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Asset Owner-led Platform Extends Dataset

Chris Hall

The free SFDR data library covers all 18 mandatory and 46 optional SFDR principal adverse impact indicators (PAIs) sourced from a range of company reports reviewed by YourStake’s data team in one centralised location.

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MiFID II to Boost Green Fund Flows Despite Credibility Doubts

Chris Hall

Finally, firms must ask whether the client would opt for products or instruments that take into account the SFDR’s principal adverse impact indicators on sustainability factors. Ottawa added: “In the next step, advisers would have to ask clients about sustainability preferences and match products accordingly.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: 2DII’s PACTA to be Stewarded by RMI

Chris Hall

BlackRock will leverage Clarity AI’s data to facilitate reporting on Principal Adverse Impact indicators, a set of specific ESG metrics mandated by the EU as part of the second part of the regulation, which imposes more granular sustainability disclosure obligations for asset managers.