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Emmanuel Faber is the first chair of the ISSB. The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is a standard-setting body established in 2021–2022 under the IFRS Foundation, whose mandate is the creation and development of sustainability -related financial reporting standards to meet investors' needs for sustainability reporting. [ 1]
Greenwashing (a compound word modeled on "whitewash"), also called green sheen, [ 1][ 2] is a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green PR and green marketing to persuade the public that an organization's products, goals, or policies are environmentally friendly. [ 3] Companies that intentionally adopt greenwashing ...
Openwashing. Openwashing or open washing (a compound word modeled on "whitewash" and derived from "greenwashing") is a term to describe presenting something as open, when it is not actually open. In the context of openwashing, "open" refers to transparency, access to information, participation, and knowledge sharing. [1]
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
On Wednesday, the European Commission proposed updated consumer protections, a greenwashing “black list” and more as part of a package to make sustainable products the norm. Since the ...
Thunberg made the remark as she left early from a panel discussion with U.N. Climate Envoy Mark Carney, taking place on the sidelines of climate talks in Glasgow.Activists from Greenpeace also ...
The United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS) is an initiative with a steering committee of six United Nations Agencies – Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Trade Centre (ITC), UN Environment, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the ...
Global Reporting Initiative. The Global Reporting Initiative (known as GRI) is an international independent standards organization that helps businesses, governments, and other organizations understand and communicate their impacts on issues such as climate change, human rights, and corruption. Since its first draft guidelines were published in ...