- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2024-06-06T17:00:00
Three European supervisory authorities issued reports on greenwashing in the financial sector, describing how they plan to call out examples of false or misleading sustainability claims by banks and other financial institutions.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), European Banking Authority (EBA), and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) issued individual reports Tuesday reiterating “the common high-level understanding of greenwashing as a practice whereby sustainability-related statements, declarations, actions, or communications do not clearly and fairly reflect the underlying sustainability profile of an entity, a financial product, or financial services,” the agencies said in a joint press release.
The reports were written in response to a request by the European Commission for the agencies to weigh in on the phenomenon of greenwashing.
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