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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).10      10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).10      Published : Sep 2025

Greenwashing in Corporate Climate Disclosures: A Machine Learning-Based Detection Approach

    Corporate climate disclosures have come to the fore of measuring environmental responsibility, but worries about greenwashing of exaggeration or parts of the environmental performance of exaggerating or overselling environmental performance remain. This paper fulfills this crucial gap in establishing the validity of such revelations by offering the machine learning method of identifying possible greenwashing. It is probable that the mixed-methods design has been used, where the textual analysis of the composed corporate sustainability reports and supervised learning algorithms trained on labeled examples of misleading statements are supplemented. Through the implementation of natural language processing and classification algorithms, the model will recognise patterns that are suggestive of a lack or even exaggeration of commitment with regard to climate pledges. The findings can be used to illustrate industry-related patterns and important language indications linked to greenwashing.

    Greenwashing, Climate Disclosures, Machine Learning, Corporate Sustainability, Text Analysis
    (1) Adeel Ahmad
    Masters in Data science, Department of Computer science, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia.
    (2) Sumaira Raza
    Teacher (M.A. Political Science), Department of Elementary Education, Master Trainer Pedagogy, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Romaila
    MPhil Scholar, Department of Political Science, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.