Regulating corporate green claims and greenwashing – policy recommendations

In an assessment of 25 major global corporations’ climate claims, produced by NewClimate Institute in collaboration with Carbon Market Watch, it was found that nearly all of them rely on some form of loophole or trick to significantly exaggerate the ambition of their climate targets and actions. The EU, and its member states, should improve …

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Top corporations use misleading climate pledges to greenwash image, new report

by Khaled DiabClimate finance, Corporate climate responsibility, Decarbonising European industry, Global marketsPosted on Comments are Disabled

Major global companies are avoiding meaningful climate action and are instead using false, misleading or ambiguous green claims, a new report shows. The first Climate Corporate Responsibility Monitor assesses the pledges made by 25 of the world’s largest corporations, many of them household names, against a set of transparent quantitative and qualitative indicators. Due out …

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