*** EVERY US consumer sees the chasing arrows and says "OH, IT'S RECYCLABLE! GREEN! GOES IN A CIRCLE!". Can a symbol be any more misleading? 😠 #greenwashing
One of the world's biggest meat companies is being sued for #Greenwashing ahead of a NY stock market listing.
NY state attorney-general Letitia James alleged JBS misrepresented its environmental impact with “fake sustainability claims to boost sales”.
The lawsuit claims that the world’s largest meatpacker pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero” by 2040 despite not having a feasible plan to achieve this goal."
Pour vous illustrer à quel point on est pas juste dans la merde mais en fait on s'y embourbe volontairement : on continue de construire des GOLFS en France 🙃
Avec un argument de greenwashing imparable : la piste de golf permettra d'éviter de bétonner toute la zone. Littéralement le même argument que les chasseurs qui avancent qu'ils ont besoin qu'il y ait toujours des animaux sauvages à buter pour perpétuer leur activité. Genre si on ne construit pas de golf ça sera forcément autre chose qui y sera construit.
‘Revolutionary’: EU Parliament votes to criminalise most serious cases of ecosystem destruction
"Countries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes 'comparable to ecocide', into national law. Ecosystem destruction, including habitat loss and illegal logging, will be punished with tougher penalties and prison sentences under the EU’s updated environmental crime directive."
Projects like 'Onward' allow #Shell to pretend it’s helping find climate solutions instead of just accelerating the climate crisis” Paris Marx, a technology critic & host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, told Drilled https://buff.ly/3wyn8Pf#greenwashing
Ach, mal wieder eine als "Journalismus" verbrämte #Greenwashing-Pressemitteilung von einer Plastikgetränkfirma in der @RNZonline
#CapriSun Trinkbeutel sind absolut nicht recyclebar und sind für mindestens 18.000 Tonnen Plastik-Alu-#Müll verantwortlich. Da sind Umverpackung und Transporte noch nicht mal dabei.
"Le géant suédois de l’ameublement dévore 20 millions de mètres cubes de bois chaque année. Soit un arbre toutes les deux secondes. Enquête sur un prédateur discret, devenu, au fil des ans, un champion du greenwashing."
"Companies making claims like “eco” and “green” will need to send them for prior verification before using them or face fines of “at least at 4% of their annual turnover”, according to a draft #EU law voted on in the European Parliament on 14 February.
According to the text, companies can only mention offsetting schemes if they have already reduced their emissions substantially and use those schemes for residual emissions only."
In a context of increasing #greenwashing where companies often claim sustainability without backing it up, the need for genuinely sustainable materials and composites to be aesthetically pleasing is paramount.
'Certified natural #gas' – or #methane gas🔥 that is purportedly produced in a low-emissions manner – is a “dangerous #greenwashing scheme” a group of progressive US 🇺🇸 senators wrote in a letter to federal regulators on Monday https://buff.ly/49va9fe
"Amid increasing public concern about gas usage and the #climate crisis, a new industry of third-party gas “certifiers” has cropped up. These companies develop standards that they use to proclaim that certain producers are reducing emissions from their fracking wells, pipelines and storage facilities, and therefore generating gas sustainably.
The companies can then deem certain gas “certified”, allowing producers to sell it at a premium."
"#Barclays to end direct financing of new oil and gas fields.
But direct funding for specific projects makes up only part of Barclays' overall lending to the sector.
The bank has been under pressure from environmental campaigners, shareholder activists and even celebrities to curb its support."
"A new US ad campaign is criticising #Vanguard, which has previously received two #greenwashing notices from ASIC, for its alleged role in “fuelling the climate crisis” through fossil fuel #investments.
In addition, the campaigners claim that Vanguard remains “out of step” with the general public’s sentiment towards sustainability."
#greenwashing#Biodiversity#Scotland https://www.insider.co.uk/news/biogas-business-appeals-highland-council-31804727
this is mostly rubbish ,the plant will produce so many polluntants that theres a planned lake to contain them on the black isle.Its so dangerous people have already been moving away and as for the jobs ,theres a many more jobs going to be lost as I already know of 4 jobs lost due to a bussiness relocating.Its going to pollute a nature reserve and currently healthy seas and as its a tourust area,many tourism jobs will be lost
"Im Januar hat die #EU ein Gesetz beschlossen, nach dem Begriffe wie '#klimaneutral' künftig nur noch erlaubt sein sollen, wenn das wissenschaftlich nachgewiesen wurde. Was das genau bedeutet, weiß niemand so recht. So gesehen, ist dm ein Präzedenzfall, an dem sich gerade deshalb viel diskutieren ließe."
EU will Nachhaltigkeitsbewertungen von Fonds transparenter machen
Um nachhaltige Geldanlagen zu erleichtern, will die EU die Vorgaben für sogenannte ESG-Ratings verschärfen. Anleger sollen die Nachhaltigkeit eines Geschäftsmodells besser erkennen können.
KLM (the Dutch airlines company) and Italian website PisteCiclabili.com (a website about cycleways) have joined forces to mantain existing cycleways in Italy! 🚲 🇮🇹
More people use cycleways, more money they'll invest in this initiative, so I hope people in Italy will respond well to it.