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Companies that once competed to look green are now competing to make fossil fuel dependence look reasonable, a study of nearly 2,000 oil and gas advertisements finds.
Corporate Responsibility
20 brands called out for greenwashing in 2025
This year, ‘greenrinsing’ – shifting climate targets after luring investment – cast a shadow over corporate decarbonisation efforts, while fossil fuel firms leaned on carbon capture technologies to justify ongoing expansion and promoted natural gas as "clean".
Energy
‘Threat to climate information integrity’: Big Oil unleashed internet ad blitz ahead of COP30
Watchdog says fossil fuel firms flooded the internet with Google ads to polish their image ahead of critical COP30 climate negotiations.
More than half of global cropland areas could see a decline in the number of suitable crops under a warming scenario of 2°C, new research finds.
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Corporate Responsibility
Risky for brands to ‘hide’ behind lagging greenwash legislation in Asia: Ogilvy sustainability head
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Carbon & Climate
Advertising agency Dentsu hires first APAC sustainability lead
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Corporate Responsibility
Curbs on greenwashing coming to Asia, cautiously: experts
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Corporate Responsibility
Ad exec Konstantin Popović launches Singapore sustainability consultancy
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