En ny rapport fra NGO’erne New Climate Institute og Carbon Market Watch konkluderer, at de undersøgte virksomheders planer for netto-nul, kun vil betyde reelle CO2-reduktioner på 36 %. Og det vel at mærke, hvis planerne rent faktisk bliver ført ud i livet – undersøgelsen tager således udelukkende stilling til, hvilke reduktioner planernes gennemførelse indebærer (ikke om de er realistiske).
Rapporten tager udgangspunkt i 24 multinationale selskaber med samlet omsætning på $3,15 billioner. Rapporten betoner, at virksomhedernes reduktionsmål er langt under de emissionsreduktioner der kræves for at holde temperaturstigninger under 1,5°C.
Rapporten konkluderer blandt andet:
- Only five of 24 companies’ net-zero pledges represent a commitment to deep decarbonisation. All the 24 companies that we assessed have pledged to reach net-zero emissions, carbon neutrality or other pledges of equivalent terminology, but the general quality of those pledges remains poor.
- Just five out of the 24 companies – H&M Group, Holcim, Stellantis, Maersk, and Thyssenkrupp – commit to decarbonise their emissions by at least around 90% by their respective net-zero target years. We find the long-term targets of 17 companies to be of poor integrity, due to the inadequacy or complete lack of explicit emission reduction commitments alongside ambiguous net-zero pledges.
- SBTi’s Net Zero Standard may provide a framework for credible long-term targets, but compliance must be checked thoroughly and monitored in the future. Two of the companies we assessed – H&M Group and Holcim – have had their netzero pledges certified by SBTi under its Net Zero Standard. We found the net-zero pledges of these companies to be of high and moderate integrity, respectively. The SBTi’s Net Zero Standard requires that net-zero pledges should equate to at least 90% emission reductions across the full value chain. This directly addresses the key issue that we identify for most companies’ net-zero pledges, which are either ambiguous or do not translate to commitments for deep decarbonization.
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