Towards Robust ESG Analysis Against Greenwashing Risks: Aspect-Action Analysis with Cross-Category Generalization (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing NLP methods lack robustness against greenwashed ESG content . existing methods often extract insights that reflect misleading or exaggerated sustainability claims rather than objective ESG performance. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to improve the robustness of ESG analysis amid the prevalence of greenwashing to analyze sustainability reports. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves robustness against greenwashed claims rather than objective ESG performance. |
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