Robecosam AG-ESG Ratings Business (Switzerland)Įcovadis (FR)- Acquisition on a non-controlling interest Sustainalytics (Netherlands) – acquisition of a 40% stake South Pole / Investment Climate Data Division (Switzerland) Merger of Sustainalytics (Netherlands) and Jantzi Research Inc. (CND)

see also: greenrinsing, greenshifting, etc. Possibly in order to take attention away from browner product lines. greenlighting: communicating excessively on a green feature of a product. Be careful: people can disagree on this one! “ grennhushing”: ( NOTE: the definition is not unambiguous!) this is either when a green company engages in some form of sustainability but refrains from communicating about it, OR when a brown company under-reports on purpose because its numbers are bad. Cheap talk is not binding, but investors are not (always) fools either… “ greenwishing”: this refers to firms that publicly set very ambitious environmental targets, but fail to provide rigorous explanations on how they will achieve their goals. Lastly, though it’s not necessarily related, new terms have emerged:

This is very beneficial for the industry - and maybe, at the end of the line, for the environment & society. This example shows that it has become very risky (and will become riskier) to dupe investors into buying wrongly labelled green funds. In 2020, DWS claimed to have 459B€ of green assets under management (funds incorporating ESG criteria for investment decisions). In May 2022, DWS offices were raided by the German police. In August 2021, the financial regulators in the US (Securities and Exchange Commission - SEC) and Germany (BaFin) revealed they were investigating DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, and the second largest fund manager in Europe. One adjacent issue is the labeling of “ sustainable” financial products, like funds. It is possible that the term be “recycled” to attempts to artificially improve sustainable reporting in order for the firm to appear greener than it actually is. One of the most common examples is H&M, with is clothing line “Conscious”, which misused the Higg Materials Sustainability Index. The Wikipedia definition is: a form of advertising or marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization’s products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly. Strictly speaking, greenwashing relates to the marketing sphere.

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