Greenwashing & ESG Bond Market Update 2021
Stephanie Sfakianos
35 years: Sustainable finance & banking
Greenwashing has been defined as the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company’s products are more environmentally sound. In this video, Stephanie discusses the challenges of tackling “greenwashing” in a world where “green” itself is so poorly defined.
Greenwashing has been defined as the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company’s products are more environmentally sound. In this video, Stephanie discusses the challenges of tackling “greenwashing” in a world where “green” itself is so poorly defined.
Greenwashing & ESG Bond Market Update 2021
12 mins 39 secs
Key learning objectives:
Define Greenwashing
Understand what is being done to coordinate sustainability reporting
Overview:
In this video, Stephanie will discuss the challenges of tackling "greenwashing" in a world where the term "green" itself is so poorly defined.
What is Greenwashing?
Greenwashing has been defined as the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company’s products are more environmentally sound. Such misrepresentation may characterise the behaviour of all market participants, be they issuers, intermediaries or investors.
Country updates on ESG
The UK government is planning to issue at least £15 billion of green bonds this year through the issuance of green bonds. It is well known that there had been some reluctance to consider such an issue, with two key objections being aversion to hypothecation, and the absence of a clear funding benefit that would justify the additional work. Sterling is sadly under-represented in the sustainable capital markets. With the government responsible for issuing half of all sterling debt securities, it is in a unique position to kickstart the market. The US is the world's second biggest greenhouse gas emitter. A change in sentiment in the real and financial economies could be a game changer for the race to net zero.
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