Australia’s third-largest domestic polluter has apologised to customers who bought into its “Go Neutral” carbon offsets program, acknowledging the product would do nothing to address the impact of fossil fuels on climate change.
“Burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gas emissions that are not prevented or undone by carbon offsets. This could have been made clearer to customers,” EnergyAustralia said in a public道歉作为与慈善机构的气候定居点的一部分。
能量劳斯塔利亚的Yallourn Power Station位于维多利亚的Latrobe Valley。 CRorts:Bloomberg
超过40万澳大利亚人签署了Energyaustralia的“中性”计划,该计划向客户保证,他们“为环境做好事”。
该计划承诺将“抵消”通过燃烧的范围燃烧的化石燃料,包括 。 “即使碳抵消,从燃烧的化石燃料释放出来的顾客能源使用的排放量仍会有助于气候变化, “即使在燃烧化石燃料中发行的排放量仍然有助于”,即使公司的使用。 “如今,Energyaustralia承认碳抵消不是帮助客户减少排放并向任何认为其销售其中性产品销售方式的客户道歉的最有效方法,”它尚不清楚。” “Storing carbon in plants is not equivalent to keeping it stored in fossil fuels (by not burning those fossil fuels in the first place).” EnergyAustralia, formerly TRUenergy, sources its energy primarily from coal and拥有Yallourn和Mount Piper电站。该公司拥有160万客户,并已承诺到2040年从煤炭过渡并到2050年达到零净。 在声明中,Energyaustralia承认,“存在“对使用碳 - 中性营销索赔的组织的合理担忧业务”。 碳脱碳是澳大利亚对气候危机的反应的重要组成部分。 在澳大利亚政府的自愿认证登记册,“气候活跃”下,公司加入了碳排放,并向他们报告了他们的“碳 - 内在”的碳排放量,并向客户介绍了一些企业。此后,澳大利亚邮政,Canva,Telstra和PWC自此退出了越来越多的诚信问题。 过去有100多家公司在过去的2½岁中已经离开了该计划ars, including the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the federal government’s $30 billion “green bank”. EnergyAustralia will remain in the scheme but the company’s chief customer officer, Kate Gibson, said there were concerns about the value of the program. “While EnergyAustralia participated in the Climate Active certified carbon offset program in good faith, today EnergyAustralia accepts that there is legitimate public concern about the她说,这些程序的功效。 气候首席执行官尼克·塞顿(Nic Seton)的父母说,他的成员认为能量劳斯塔利亚的“ go中性”的营销相当于绿化。他说:“气候主张必须得到真正的行动,而不是营销旋转,” “能量劳斯塔利亚的声明清楚地表明,不应将偏移用作污染的许可。它不再是污染产品作为“碳中性”的污染产品,并以“碳中性”的态度污染,并以客户为了签约,他们在签约_ 72
Nic Seton, the chief executive of Parents for Climate, which took the court action.Credit: Rhett Wyman
Equity Generation Lawyers principal lawyer David Hertzberg, representing Parents for Climate, said Energyaustralia已经承认了他的客户的关键论点,即碳偏移不会对燃烧化石燃料的气候造成伤害。
“我们的客户希望今天的明确声明能够为Energyaustria的明确声明设定了公司对公司的新标准的新标准,该公司围绕着偏移和气候的要求尤其考虑,这是否需要使他们尤其需要考虑。案例显示,当声称其污染产品是“碳中性的”时。注册我们的两周环境新闻通讯。
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