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COP27 hands business a to-do list. This is what’s on it

Hans van Leeuwen
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Sharm el-Sheikh | The COP27 climate conference has handed business a daunting to-do list, in a flurry of announcements aimed at outlawing greenwashing, sharpening up climate reporting and harmonising companies’ carbon data.

The United Nations, which runs COP, led the way with a punchy experts’ report prescribing measures that would “put a red line around greenwashing”, according to chairwoman and former Canadian minister Catherine McKenna.

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Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com

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