Govt must legislate against ‘rampant’ greenwashing to avert catastrophe

Posted on 6 Dec 2019 by The Manufacturer

Urgency around the green agenda has in recent months escalated, and with people from all walks of life scrambling to ensure their carbon footprint is reduced in line with intergovernmental treaties, the pressure on energy-intensive industries to fall in line is rapidly increasing too.

Amid the effort and confusion, the phenomenon of ‘greenwashing’ is growing – where some may knowingly or unwittingly publish misleading information about how environmentally sound their processes really are. Dr Anthea Blackburn, senior scientist at Econic Technologies, explains how government must play its part to ensure companies ‘ride the green wave’ and avoid being lost…

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