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Don't Be A Greenwasher
Season 1 · Episode 26

Don't Be A Greenwasher

Transforming Tomorrow

March 25, 202432m 21s

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Show Notes

Dr Di Wang dials in from Sydney, Australia, to talk to Jan and Paul about his work on sustainability reporting and materiality.

Di talks about his experience of interviewing more than 200 businesses on their understanding of materiality – a concept that underpins reporting and which will be explained in the podcast. He explains why companies take part in greenhushing – and explains why he thinks the practice is only likely to increase. He also introduces us to the concept of brownwashing.

And Paul's brainwashing is complete, as the word ‘benchmarking’ comes into his head unprompted.

Find out more about Di’s work and research interests here: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/di-wang

And you can see Di’s paper on Sustainability Reporting and Materiality here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4687038