Environmental auditors approve green labels for products linked to...
A new ICIJ-led cross-border investigation exposes how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations when granting environmental certifications.
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Deforestation Inc. uncovers how companies in the forest-products industry have violated environmental laws even while auditing firms certified their products as “sustainable.”
View ArticleWestern firms certified as socially responsible trade in Myanmar teak linked...
Records show how environmental certification firms and middlemen legitimize deals that start with Myanmar’s brutal junta and end as yacht decks.
View ArticleCompanies making false ‘green’ claims in Europe face punishment under...
After ICIJ’s Deforestation Inc. investigation revealed widespread issues with environmental certification schemes, a draft new rule would force companies to substantiate the claims they use to market...
View ArticleMalaysian environmental auditing scheme under scrutiny for ignoring labor...
The revelations mirror Deforestation Inc. findings from around the world, which showed how auditing firms hired as environmental verifiers often ignore or fail to identify serious transgressions by...
View ArticleAccounting firms accused of ‘operating with impunity’ as regulator flags...
The U.S. regulator tasked with ensuring audit quality has found an uptick in deficiencies three years in a row. But its efforts to force auditors to change don’t seem to be working.
View ArticleBeyond Cyprus, PwC has weathered a decade of global probes and scandals
The global accounting and auditing firm has featured in multiple ICIJ investigations, as well as legal and ethical dustups around the world.
View ArticleAs sanctions loomed, accounting giant PwC scrambled to keep powerful Russians...
The Big Four firm has served dozens of oligarchs through its Cyprus branch, undermining global efforts to punish Putin's allies and stymie support for Russia's war machine.
View ArticleA US billionaire took over a tropical island pension fund — then hundreds of...
With help from PwC Cyprus, Hushang Ansary set up shell companies and oversaw a series of transactions that authorities say drained a Curacao fund holding pensions for 30,000 people.
View ArticleAs regulators clamp down on forest destruction, conservationists flag...
In a year when governments announced new policies and renewed focus on stopping deforestation, the credibility of key "green" certification schemes in a $220 billion industry remains in question.
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