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The Week in Green: Wash, wash, wash…

One of today’s most preeminent themes is definitely “washing”, whether it is ESG-washing, green-washing or impact-washing, fingers are pointed, accusations fly, judgements are passed. In this week’s Snap Julia Axelsson focused on the recent war declared on ESG and wonders whether our current love-hate relationship with the 3-letter acronym isn’t a bit of a waste. Meanwhile, Richard Tyszkiewicz‘s new column digs into a particular pet peeve of his: Pringles. Led by his repugnance for unrecyclable packaging, he digs into the curious case of Kellogg’s, unearthing issues with the stock and its ESG ratings

Conveniently, on the same topic, we found a white paper published his week by Swiss-based Covalence, who provides is a kind of “sincerity detector” to test the degree of companies’ green washing. Also very timely, a note by Fidelity International discusses the decision to drop Tesla from the S&P 500 ESG index in May 2022 and argues that perhaps the right way forward would be to follow a two-pronged path in ESG analysis. More…

Source: NordSIP

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