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What's in a Name? ESG and Greenwashing

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The Importance of Transparency in Financial Services

I think there is a problem of education. I think there is mislabeling and misleading around sustainability claims and sustainability risk. There is misunderstanding about, okay, if you invest in natural gas, these are the pros and cons of it. This is what your investment has in terms of environmental attribute. It allowed to move away from coal, but it's still not renewable. And facilitates the transition to clean energy or maybe considered more of a transition bond. So there's a degree of perhaps that language around this space hasn't caught up to how many different layers of nuance that we ultimately really need and that we need more terms. The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. operates through its subsidiaries under the

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