Ministers urged to establish climate target regulator to crackdown on greenwash

Cecilia Keating
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Ministers urged to establish climate target regulator to crackdown on greenwash

IPPR proposes new Office for Climate and Environmental Targets to publicly tackle companies that fail to publish credible transition plans

The government is facing calls to crackdown on greenwashing by establishing a new regulator tasked with ensuring corporate climate goals are accountable, comparable, and sufficiently ambitious. In a...

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