Greenwashing risks and the path to real progress
As the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP29, begins, Damisola Sulaiman explores the unique greenwashing risks the insurance industry faces, how those risks can be mitigated and the challenges faced in proving sustainability claims.
The Financial Conduct Authority’s 2022 Financial Lives survey uncovered that 74% of UK adults agreed environmental issues were important to them, prompting the regulator to develop its Sustainability
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