Greenwashing
How To Avoid Greenwashing
Greenwashing threatens the global environmental movement, from the renewable energy transition to conservation. Additionally, it is damaging for both consumers and businesses. Understanding the basics of how to avoid greenwashing goes a long way to limiting its intentional and unintentional use.
10 Types of Greenwashing
As demand for sustainable products and companies has grown, so has the rate of greenwashing. Understanding the different methods used in greenwashing is a valuable tool in avoiding brands that use the practice.
Greenhushing vs Greenwashing: Tackling Sustainability Misinformation
Greenwashing has a long history, with several high-profile cases taking place in the public sphere. Greenhushing is the newer approach to sustainability misinformation but is just as harmful to global climate action. Understanding both strategies is critical to keeping companies accountable for their corporate sustainability aspirations.
Greenhushing: The Silent Barrier to Global Sustainability
Sustainability has been steadily increasing in the corporate world due to public, regulatory and financial pressure. As a result, some companies have fallen back on greenhushing to reduce public awareness of their environmental impacts and to appear more sustainable.
The Philippines’ Choice: Going Clean or Going With SMC
The Philippines has immense clean energy potential and has already witnessed the benefits of tapping into it. Whether the government continues in this direction will reveal if its priorities lay with the corporations or the public interest.
Shell Pushes LNG Agenda and Backtracks on Sustainability
Oil and gas major Shell has decided to place profits over sustainability, backpedalling from previous commitments to rein in its carbon emissions. Governments must find ways to regulate these fossil fuel-producing giants.
Greenwashing Ads: Fossil Fuel Giants Dominate Social Media
Social media platforms are proving the perfect environment for the oil and gas industry to run greenwashing campaigns. Without swift and adequate action, tech companies risk becoming complicit partners in delaying and derailing necessary climate action.
Facebook’s Renewable Energy Progress: Is It Enough?
Facebook reached 100% renewable energy and net-zero for operational emissions in 2020 – goals that were set in 2018. These are good stepping stones, but they make a small impact based on the scale of the business. Scope 3 emissions are still high and will be Facebook's new carbon-neutral target in the coming decade.
Ammonia: Fuel of the Future?
Ammonia acts as an energy carrier similar to hydrogen. However, ammonia has several traits that make it more promising than hydrogen for the global energy transition. Regardless, green ammonia production costs remain prohibitively expensive for widespread adoption.
Samsung’s Journey To Carbon Neutral: How Does It Stack Up?
Samsung aims to be carbon-neutral by 2050, and its public-facing messaging shows progress towards this goal. However, the company's net-zero target takes place 10 to 20 years later than Apple, Google and Amazon. This, among other concerns, raises the question: Is Samsung doing enough for sustainability?
Big Oil Stalled Climate Action: What Now?
Big oil companies has known about climate change since at least the 1980s. Yet, it hasn't changed its business practices. Instead, it has worked to keep the knowledge secret and continued to promote fossil fuel use. Now, the world is suffering the consequences of long-term greenhouse gas production, and fossil fuel companies are generating record profits.
Tackling Greenwashing: the Report of UN Experts at COP27 Reveals All
The latest report of the UN High-Level Expert Group, however, can be a real difference-maker, if it provokes regulatory action.
Worst Companies for the Environment: Holding the Renewable Energy Transition Back
The companies with the most extensive resources are often the biggest climate laggards. Realising the difference they can make and starting to support the global clean energy transition would be massively beneficial for their own good and the future of everyone else.
Green Bonds: Sustainable Financing Tools or a Greenwashing Weapon?
In a bid to reduce greenwashing possibilities, the EU now requires increased transparency and strict reporting for sustainable bonds. However, the rest of the world is still dragging its feet, leaving the door open for greenwashing on both state and corporate levels.
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