GREENWASHING

CSIR staff join 'Wrinkles Acche Hain' campaign, wearing unironed clothes to reduce CO2 emissions and showcase scientific prowess. They can opt for pleats inspired by Issey Miyake for a chic look.

In the United States, sales of consumer products that are labeled green or sustainable are growing twice as fast as those that are not, according to research from New York University's Stern School of Business, with younger and wealthier consumers m...

The guidelines require comparative claims like "greener" or "friendlier" to be supported by evidence of the advertised product or service providing environmental benefits over its previous product or competitor's product. Ads must not mislead consum...

"All environmental claims shall be accurate and disclose all material information either in the relevant advertisement or communication or by inserting a QR Code, or any such technology including web link, which will be linked to relevant informatio...

COP28 special representative for business & philanthropy, Badr Jafar, emphasized the necessity for global regulators to establish standards for climate finance and spending to counteract 'greenwashing' and 'greenhushing'. Jafar highlighted the lack ...

Many global food suppliers are looking at regenerative agriculture which has the capability to reduce the social and environmental impact of traditional farming approaches.

Currently, most large companies report how many tonnes of carbon they emit into the atmosphere each year, but the data is often not reliable. The poor quality of data and lack of common standards allows companies to overstate their climate credentia...

​​Greenwashing is classified as an unfair trade practice by the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) too has a green product certification scheme to monitor products labelled as eco-friendly, while green labels like En...

The Reserve Bank of India plans to combat greenwashing in financial services, where exaggerated or unproven Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) claims can damage market confidence in such products. Greenwashing involves making misleading stat...

That's not to say that your Earth Day celebrations haven't been well intentioned; they're just so far removed from what the founders of the first Earth Day envisioned, which was protesting and demanding change on behalf of those being hurt by the cl...

Government must develop clear guidelines and criteria on how companies should prove their environmental claims, having these claims checked by an independent and accredited verifier, and a robust environmental labelling scheme that is transparent an...

European utilities plan to build gas-fired plants that could be converted to burn green hydrogen in the future. The move could help countries achieve their renewable energy goals, but the technology’s inefficiency and a scarcity of hydrogen technolo...

This came after the regulator strengthened the framework for green bonds by introducing the concept of 'blue' and 'yellow' bonds as new modes of sustainable finance in relation to pollution prevention as well as control and eco-efficient products.

Brands must realise that the green marketing may help them win quick business but there is a potential risk of the brand being boycotted once the truth tumbles out.

Reserve Bank Deputy Governor M Rajeshwar Rao on Thursday called for a taxonomy on green finance to avoid the risk of "greenwashing". Green financing refers to lending to environmentally sustainable economic activities.

The report, released at the COP 27 climate conference in Egypt, is intended to draw a "red line" around false claims of progress in the fight against global warming that can confuse investors and policy makers.

CEO Asoka Woehrmann is set to step down after the company's annual general meeting on June 9, DWS said. He will be succeeded by Stefan Hoops, who currently oversees Deutsche Bank's corporate and commercial client activities.