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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.
Policy & Finance
South Korea sees 172 per cent surge in greenwashing cases in 4 years
Most of the cases in 2024 were related to products whose national “Environmental Label” certification period had expired, according to a Seoul-based lawmaker, who said it showed regulatory blind spots in post-certification management.
Policy & Finance
‘Greenrinsing’: Firms setting and dropping net-zero targets to create revolving door for finance, says UN official
Some companies have been gaming their climate targets to attract investment, with most struggling to cut "impossible" supply chain emissions, the United Nations Global Compact Network Thailand executive director said at an event in Singapore last week.
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