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Greenwashing in the age of accountability

Cicero & Bernay’s Ahmad Itani says the consequences for getting environmental practices wrong are higher than ever.

Ahmad Itani, Founder and CEO, Cicero & Bernay
Do you ever drive past a landfill site and perhaps, overcome by the aroma, start to ponder the contrast between what we bury and display in our consumption habits? Mountains of waste, hidden beneath layers of earth, reflect a troubling reality in our materialist world – one that brands are increasingly called to address through genuine sustainability efforts. 
However, as this type of awareness sharpens, the parallel rise in greenwashing – the act of misleading the public about a product’s or company’s environmental benefits – casts a shadow over the industry’s sincerity. 
Havas, a global ad an


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Shantelle Nagarajan is Campaign Middle East’s Junior Reporter who covers marketing news which focuses on FMCG, real estate and brand retail industries. Her features delve into brand strategy, appointments, trends in consumer behaviour and CX. Shantelle also contributes to social media coverage, editorial event programming and print content work. She previously worked in PR and marketing, most recently at Edelman, where she was part of the Brand team. When she’s not writing for her day job, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, playing at a weekly open mic night or doom-scrolling the latest make-up challenges on TikTok.