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Net-zero pipe dreams: Carbon-neutral fossil fuel claims amount to greenwashing | |
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2021-10-25 | |
发布年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 国际 |
领域 | 气候变化 |
正文(英文) | A new Carbon Market Watch report thoroughly investigates the growing number of fossil fuels that are being marketed as “carbon neutral” and concludes that they amount to brazen greenwashing. Published ahead of the COP26, the document challenges governments and industry to halt greenwashing practices and commit to binding fossil fuel phaseouts.Today, Carbon Market Watch releases a new investigation entitled ‘Net-zero pipe dreams: Why fossil fuels cannot be carbon neutral’ which explores the troubling new trend of so-called carbon-neutral fossil fuels. Carbon intensive or carbon neutral?A growing number of fossil fuel companies have been offering these supposedly carbon-neutral products by typically claiming to have offset an undisclosed amount of emissions using an undisclosed amount of carbon credits they have purchased from undisclosed projects. Assessing the value and validity of these questionable claims required considerable sleuthing. The firms involved include such big names as Shell, Total, BP, Gazprom and PetroChina. The so-called carbon-neutral fossil fuels have been dispatched to markets as diverse as the UK, China, Japan, Mexico, India. Hope or hype?Our investigation of 18 such deals shows conclusively that these carbon-neutrality claims are little more than marketing gimmicks and amount to greenwashing. “Illusory, opaque and baseless claims of ‘carbon-neutral’ fossil fuels overtly defy science and reason,” says Carbon Market Watch’s Jonathan Crook, the lead author of the report. “This is nothing more than a desperate and shameless attempt by oil and gas majors to keep business-as-usual activities and hoodwink the public.” “At COP 26, governments must keep 1.5°C alive by committing to clear and binding fossil fuel phase-out plans that will nip this kind of greenwashing in the bud,” Crook urges. Key findingsThe reports main findings include:
Main recommendationsThe report makes a number of recommendations, including:
‘Net-zero pipedreams’ is available for download here: https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/net-zero-pipe-dreams-why-fossil-fuels-cannot-be-carbon-neutral/ |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/341011 |
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