Assessing Sustainability Efforts and Greenwashing in Global Oil and Gas Supply Chain- Natural Language Processing Approach

Global oil and gas supply chain ensures energy security of the world; however, faces significant compliance pressure on environmental footprints and allegation of overwhelming in sustainability reporting from the society. This paper proposes a natural language processing based unified framework to evaluate the environmental compliances as per global standards and greenwashing detection. It extracts keywords and numeric data from the sustainability reports, analyses sentiments for the entire supply chain operations, and matches with the pre trained global standard thresholds as per the United Nation Climate Action Declaration 2022 to classify the compliances and mark the probable greenwashing. Thus, the study offers a valuable tool for stakeholders and regulators to assess accuracy and transparency in corporate sustainability practices.