'Misaligned': How blue chips are failing to cut ties with trade bodies guilty of undermining climate goals

Cecilia Keating
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Unilever, BASF, Procter & Gamble, Walmart, and Colgate-Palmolive among those accused of failing to adequately assess the 'climate alignment' of their trade associations

Companies with ambitious environmental objectives are failing to reconsider or disclose their affiliations with trade groups that actively lobbying against climate goals and decarbonisation policies, a...

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