{"id":7940,"date":"2024-09-26T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2024-09-26T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:48:46","slug":"greenwashing-a-form-of-cheating-in-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/greenwashing-a-form-of-cheating-in-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwashing \u2013 A form of cheating in economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finance Prof. <strong>\u00c9ric Jondeau<\/strong> from HEC Lausanne addresses the issue of greenwashing in a new podcast series by the University of Lausanne (UNIL), titled <strong>&#8220;Are you cheating?&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This series available in French language features researchers from various faculties of UNIL discussing different forms of cheating in multiple academic disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In economics, greenwashing is a type of cheating. It involves deceptive marketing practices that use environmental claims to enhance a company&#8217;s image. This poses a risk to investors by funding less virtuous companies. However, evaluation tools exist to help identify genuinely committed companies, as well as more responsible banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the UNIL podcast now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Le greenwashing \u2013 une forme de tricherie en \u00e9conomie\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5ktKBKSMLp11STDeSnI9X5?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Picture \u00a9&nbsp;Alberto Masnovo | Dreamstime.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Prof. \u00c9ric Jondeau from HEC Lausanne addresses the issue of greenwashing in a new podcast series by the University of Lausanne (UNIL), titled &#8220;Are you cheating?&#8221;. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002640,"featured_media":7936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[933,936,934,929],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-and-society","8":"category-esg","9":"category-finance-and-insurance","10":"category-research"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7943,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions\/7943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/hecoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}