Failure to hit net-zero target 'not necessarily greenwashing', says regulator - Environmental Finance

Failure by a bank to meet a carbon reduction target would not necessarily constitute greenwashing, an influential regulator has claimed.

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Failure to hit net-zero target ‘not necessarily greenwashing’, says regulator – Environmental Finance