{"id":115225,"date":"2023-06-30T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/legal-challenges-on-greenwashing-grounds-rising-steeply\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T04:52:29","slug":"legal-challenges-on-greenwashing-grounds-rising-steeply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/legal-challenges-on-greenwashing-grounds-rising-steeply\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal challenges on greenwashing grounds rising steeply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115225\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nLast year, 26 legal challenges were made in court against corporates on greenwashing grounds \u2013 up from 10 challenges in 2020. Academics at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change in London are warning businesses to prepare for the \u201cexplosion\u201d of litigation if they have not already. They are also warning that, even if a business is not taken to court, consumers and campaign groups may look to take action through other channels, like complaints to consumer protection agencies and advertising watchdogs.<\/p>\n<p>Their new report details the 26 \u201cclimate-washing\u201d legal cases that made it into courts across the world in 2022 against players in the private sector. More than 180 other cases were filed but did not make it into court. Most commonly, these cases challenge disconnects between businesses\u2019 stated climate targets and strategies, plus their investments and other actions. The report notes: \u201cOne of the most significant groups of climate-washing cases to emerge in recent years have been cases challenging the truthfulness of corporate climate commitments, particularly where these are not backed up by adequate plans and policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Net-Zero Tracker warned that the quality of corporate climate targets has only improved \u201cincrementally\u201d over the past few years. Similarly, CDP has stated that only one-third of businesses with climate targets are either on track or almost on track to meet them. CDP has called the gap between ambition and delivery \u201cworrying\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Legal cases are also being flagged against businesses making misleading claims about the environmental impact of their products and services; firms with climate plans that are nonetheless lobbying against progressive policymaking; and firms which do not disclose the climate-related impact and risk information their stakeholders are demanding. Non-disclosure is likely to become an increasingly material risk for businesses as reporting requirements are increased in Europe and other geographies.<\/p>\n<p>When assessing legal cases against companies on climate grounds since 2015, the researchers found the practice to be the most common in the US. Of the 2,341 cases filed between 2015 and 2022, almost 1,600 were in the US. Australia, in second place, saw 130 cases filed. The UK came in at third with 102 cases. The report found that most cases have outcomes that are likely to benefit climate action. In other words, judges usually side with claimants rather than the corporations they are accusing.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/legal-challenges-on-greenwashing-grounds-rising-steeply\/\">edie.net<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/legal-challenges-on-greenwashing-grounds-rising-steeply\/\">Legal challenges on greenwashing grounds rising steeply<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10349,575,970,2036,10578],"class_list":["post-115225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-challenges","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-green","tag-legal","tag-washing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}