{"id":14366,"date":"2022-08-26T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:59:34","slug":"the-week-in-green-wash-wash-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/the-week-in-green-wash-wash-wash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Green: Wash, wash, wash&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/nordsip\/the-week-in-green-8116614?e=91d205ef14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14369 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/nordsip-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\"><\/a>One of today&#8217;s most preeminent themes is definitely &#8220;washing&#8221;, whether it is ESG-washing, green-washing or impact-washing, fingers are pointed, accusations fly, judgements are passed. In this week&#8217;s <strong>Snap<\/strong>&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https:\/\/nordsip.com\/author\/juliaxe\/\">Julia Axelsson<\/a><\/b> focused on the recent war declared on <strong>ESG<\/strong> and wonders whether <b><a href=\"https:\/\/nordsip.com\/2022\/08\/26\/esg-is-dead-long-live-esg\/\">our current love-hate relationship with the 3-letter acronym<\/a><\/b> isn&#8217;t a bit of a waste. Meanwhile, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/nordsip.com\/author\/rtysz\/\">Richard Tyszkiewicz<\/a><\/b>&#8216;s new column digs into a particular pet peeve of his:<strong> Pringles.<\/strong>&nbsp;Led by his repugnance for unrecyclable packaging, he digs into the curious case of <strong>Kellogg&#8217;s,<\/strong> unearthing<b><a href=\"https:\/\/nordsip.com\/2022\/08\/24\/tackling-plastic-waste-calls-for-a-forensic-approach\/\"> issues with the stock and its ESG ratings<\/a><\/b>.&nbsp;<br><br>Conveniently, on the same topic, we found<b><a href=\"https:\/\/nordsip.com\/2022\/08\/24\/covalence-switches-on-sincerity-detector\/\"> a white paper published his week<\/a><\/b> by Swiss-based <strong>Covalence<\/strong>, who provides&nbsp;is&nbsp;a kind of&nbsp;\u201csincerity detector\u201d to test the degree of companies&#8217; green washing. Also very timely, a note by <strong>Fidelity International <\/strong>discusses the decision to&nbsp;drop<strong> Tesla <\/strong>from the<strong> S&amp;P 500 ESG index<\/strong> in May 2022 and argues that perhaps the right way forward would be to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/nordsip.com\/2022\/08\/26\/when-a-single-esg-score-isnt-enough\/\">follow a two-pronged path in ESG analysis<\/a><\/b>. <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/nordsip\/the-week-in-green-8116614?e=91d205ef14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/nordsip\/the-week-in-green-8116614?e=91d205ef14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NordSIP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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&nbsp;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. 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