The main focus of the thesis is to introduce the threatening phenomenon of greenwashing, with particular attention to that generated by corporations, and analyze the pivotal root causes that might be accountable for its generation so as to allow managers, policymakers, and other organizations to take the right actions against it. Therefore, before digging into the determinants endangering the aforementioned plague, we will primarily discuss the boundaries within which we need to collocate the concept of corporate greenwashing. In particular, we will refer the increasing interest toward the achievement of sustainable goals that has been fascinating both investors, policymakers, companies, and NGOs from the Paris Agreement all the way to COP26, where not only stakeholders stressed the focus on climate but also on CSR goals.