How do I deal with ESG work used just for image?

You can report an organization's ESG with real rigor, and it unsettles you to watch that work used to look good rather than to do good. That discomfort is your integrity still functioning. Plenty of people in your seat stopped noticing long ago. That you still feel it is worth respecting, not fixing. You cannot control what leadership does with an honest report, but you can control the honesty itself. A rigorous, truthful account is not wasted just because someone spins it. The real numbers are on the record, and accurate reporting is what eventually makes the spin impossible to sustain. Your rigor is the counterweight, even when it feels quiet. Keep your reporting clean and refuse to soften a figure to flatter anyone. Where you can, push one number toward driving a real decision rather than a press line. You may not win every time. But the truth you insist on is the thing greenwashing cannot survive in the long run.