Resources
Scientific research, reports, investor briefings, resources for schools and annual impact reports
Unilever’s greenwashing and vulnerability to brand damage: briefing for investors
Unilever has positioned itself as a responsible business with strong sustainability credentials. However, its continued inaction on plastic pollution makes it uniquely vulnerable to accusations of greenwashing and hypocrisy. With both Greenpeace and the CMA targeting the company over its environmental performance claims, the risks to shareholder value are growing.
Audit briefing: Falling Short
Shareholder votes on audit and climate risk
Zeroing In
The International Energy Agency’s new Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 scenario, published in May 2021 and incorporated in the World Energy Outlook published in October, sparked wide debate on the future of oil and gas.
Accountable: Shareholder votes on auditor appointments
This briefing is a review of the 2021 voting records of some of the largest asset managers operating in the UK on the appointment of auditors at over 300 large listed companies. Shareholders are waiving through the reappointment of auditors that have failed to address climate risk in their reports, posing a significant risk to their own investments and the climate.
The Big Smoke: the global emissions of the UK financial sector
This report examines the ongoing role of the UK's private financial institutions in financing the climate and nature emergency. It demonstrates that the UK’s 'financed emissions' are extensive, likely representing one of the UK’s most significant contributions to climate change.
Net expectations: assessing the role of carbon dioxide removal in companies’ climate plans
This briefing aims to help investors and others interpret and assess the feasibility of the role of CDR in companies’ climate plans. It starts by reviewing some companies’ approaches, to illustrate the issues at stake. It then reviews the technological status of CDR, the uncertainties, risks and limits to CDR deployment, and how much CDR is possible or needed in energy models.
Barclays’ failure to transition
How Barclays' 2019 energy and climate change statement fails to address climate risk
The International Energy Agency and the Paris Goals
Q&A for investors
IEA fact check
The International Energy Agency's climate scenarios are not aligned with the Paris Goals