Greenshifting, greenlighting, and greencrowding: Navigating the greenwash crackdown

Stuart Stone
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New report warns of legal, financial, and reputational risks posed to businesses by fast-evolving greenwash regulation in the UK and EU

Businesses globally are facing intensifying regulatory, investor, and societal pressures to better communicate their environmental achievements and provide evidence to back up their green claims, a new...

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