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Food/Spring 2024

Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

by Adria Vasil and Jessica Scott-Reid

As methane emissions from meat rise, some companies are playing with the metrics that measure them and making claims that don't add

Finance

Will free speech derail North America’s climate finance agenda?

by Julien O. Beaulieu and Iris Fairley-Beam

As lawsuits challenging climate-risk disclosure rules multiply in the United States, Canada’s climate finance policies could be next in line

Leadership

Here are the nine biggest corporate greenwashing fines

by Alex Robinson

As Europe cracks down on greenwash, here’s a tally of the largest greenwashing fines ever faced by companies like Volkswagen, Keurig and

Climate/Winter 2024

How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

by Naomi Buck

Pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences. But efforts are ramping up to shut it

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Leadership

The key to combatting greenwashing? An empowered marketing team

by Vanessa Chris

OPINION | With the stakes as high as they are, it’s far more beneficial to market sustainability in a truthful and transparent

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Finance

Major investor alliance working to clean up greenwash lurking in ESG

by Eugene Ellmen

Can the CARET project win over the sustainable investing industry and clear up the fog around ESG integration?

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Leadership

‘Carbon neutral’ and ‘net-zero’ claims face global greenwash crackdown

by Adria Vasil

As the EU and U.K. ban carbon-neutral labels and Canada and the U.S. overhaul their marketing watchdogs, is the Wild West era

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Energy

Canadian doctors prescribe fines for natural gas 'greenwashers'

by Rick Spence

Nurses, doctors and public health advocates say the Canadian Gas Association is misleading consumers by aggressively promoting natural gas as 'clean' and

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Climate

It’s time for a crackdown on corporate net-zero pledges, UN expert panel says

by Shawn McCarthy

Catherine McKenna–led group calls for end to voluntary targets and new investment in fossil fuels, facing lengthy list of challenges

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