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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

DeSmogBlog

Oil and gas companies have been heavily promoting hydrogen as a green fuel, despite the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimating that hydrogen will represent at best 2.1 but did not tag Shell, nor mention his commercial relationship with the brand. percent of total energy consumption in 2050.

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7 European Companies Looking to Go Big in American Clean Power in 2020

GreenTechMedia

and Brazil, much of it backed by C&I power purchase agreements thanks to Enel Green Power's early and successful push into the corporate renewables market. It already has stakes in retailer Inspire Energy and its deal for Texan firm MP2 Energy in 2017 included a C&I supply business. gigawatts of renewable power. In the U.S.,

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How much will net zero cost the UK? The OBR tries answering the trillion-pound question

Business Green

The UK has embarked on what the government describes as a green industrial revolution, with whole industries, the entire jobs market, every inch of infrastructure and even the banal, minutiae details of our daily lives on the cusp of major transformation. — Tim Lord (@timbolord) July 6, 2021. Or is it a billion pound question?

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How investing 1.3 per cent of GDP could decarbonise the global economy - and unlock massive financial savings

Business Green

The report calculates that building a global net zero emission economy by 2050 would require around $110tr in capital investment between 2021 and 2050. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. The true incremental cost of the required investment is far below the gross investment need," the report states.

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'This is not a scary transition': Six key takeaways from the CCC's net zero progress report

Business Green

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways. There is a limited window to change behaviours," the report states.