World Environment Day 2021: Greenwashing will not help anybody
The political-industrial complex has been slowly hijacking the new global narrative of transformation and building back better
It is imperative to decouple sustainability and greenwashing
Sustainability makes corporate production responsible and the average consumer more aware of every action
The Greenwashers: Big Oil’s words and actions on climate emergency do not match, says study
Such companies spend huge sums of money to portray themselves as proactive on climate action; but their measures to reduce climate change are …
Irony just died: Coca-Cola, among biggest global polluters, to sponsor CoP27
Activists and commentators have called Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the world’s biggest climate summit a ‘greenwashing exercise’
EU to contain greenwashing by 2026; finalises draft banning misleading advertisements
The rule will impose stricter guidelines on environmental and climate-neutral claims, mandating verifiable proof
COP27: Non-state actors can’t destroy the environment, yet claim to be net zero, says report
Businesses, financial institutions, cities and regions must ensure that their operations don’t contribute to deforestation, peatland loss …
Voluntary carbon market governance body proposes regulations to stamp out greenwashing
Exaggerated claims of offset, opaque market practices, conflict of interest and the appropriation of credits for greenwashing have been …
Long-awaited norms to tackle carbon market irregularities fall short, lack efficacy
ICVCM’s assessment framework fails to put robust checks on the voluntary carbon market
Green bonds: Is it green finance or green-washing?
A foremost requirement to develop a robust green bond market is to harmonise international and domestic guidelines and standards for …
Simply Put: Death of Irony
Simply Put: Greenwashing
GWP100 or GWP*: Meat, dairy lobby pushing for new methane metric. How this will enable greenwashing
New method takes current methane emissions as baseline to present minor reductions as negative emissions or cooling
Carbon Controversy: Corporate climate action watchdog’s new decision regarding use of offsetting causes backlash
Without sufficient guardrails and stringent oversight, there is a risk of writing off the responsibility of businesses to actually reduce the …
