greenwashing

In addition to generating profits, business leaders face increased expectations to deliver a positive social impact, enhance environmental sustainability and demonstrate good governance.

Over 50 Canadian advertisers and PR agencies have joined a 900-strong global group that has pledged not to work for the fossil fuel industry.

An investigation into false advertising by Shell Canada has been closed after the company stopped a campaign which encouraged customers to fund carbon-offset projects at the fuel pump.

A shadowy new organization attacking the climate efforts of Canadian cities is infiltrating Google searches and ads in the New York Times and other publications online.

The popular narrative suggests that tackling methane emissions is the “low-hanging fruit” in the climate-solutions toolbox. The belief that turning off the taps on this “super-pollutant” could “buy us time” to address the climate crisis is widespread, shared by politicians, journalists, and even some scientists.

At COP28, the fossil fuel industry promoted carbon capture and storage as a way to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In reality, the technology is growing at a snail’s pace compared to wind and solar energy.

Finding middle ground between the oil and gas sector and climate activists may be the right chess move in politics, but the wrong moral move that gambles with our children’s future.

Social media feeds have been bombarded with ads touting efforts by gas utilities to capture so-called "renewable natural gas" produced from decomposing organic waste. From B.C. to Quebec, the ads suggest measures to phase out gas aren't needed because gas from landfills and manure pits will soon heat millions of homes.

Here at COP28, the UN climate conference in Dubai, health is in focus. Me and my fellow medical professionals are here with the message that the climate crisis is a health emergency, and phasing out fossil fuels is the cure. Unfortunately, fossil fuel lobbyists are also here in droves, trying to delay action. 

A handful of proposed changes to Canada's Competition Act are good first steps to crack down on corporate greenwashing, but it still needs enforcement measures with teeth, environmental groups say.

Two groups that want reduced plastics production published a report Friday highly critical of plastic credits, calling them a greenwashing tool that won't help with worldwide pollution from the material.

Many municipal leaders are contesting continued sponsorship of their annual UBCM conference by fossil fuel corporations — especially when those same companies direct heat at small communities looking to electrify to meet climate targets.

For the past few weeks, buses in Canada's third-largest city have greeted passengers with massive advertisements pushing misleading information about the climate impacts of the country's natural gas industry. 

An American community offers a precautionary tale about what happens when an oil refinery is allowed to expand.

Climate protesters say a Toronto landlord is “greenwashing” rent increases and carrying out green retrofitting practices that displace long-term tenants.