Tag: greenwashing
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Scope 3 Is About to Redraw the Corporate Map: And Companies Serving Fossil Fuels Are Standing on a Fault Line
Scope 3 emissions reporting is expanding, challenging companies to recognise their broader climate impact and accountability.
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Big Tech, Big Promises, Bigger Emissions: The Truth About Corporate Climate Claims
Corporate climate pledges often lack sincerity and effectiveness, revealing a gap between ambitious promises and actual progress. Major companies are criticised for relying on offsets and creative accounting rather than genuine emissions reduction. The need for transparent, transition-specific targets is paramount, as reputational risks increasingly translate to legal consequences in the climate crisis.
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The Truth About Hydrogen: High Cost, Low Impact, Big Distraction
The post critiques the exaggerated role of hydrogen in climate action, emphasizing its inefficiency compared to direct electrification. While acknowledging hydrogen’s importance as a feedstock in industrial processes, it argues against using it as a fuel for transport or heating. The author calls for prioritizing electrification to maximize emissions reductions effectively.
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Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?
The lack of transparency from Cloud computing providers is something we have discussed many times on this blog – today we thought we’d highlight an example. Salesforce dedicates a significant portion of its site to Sustainability and on “Using cloud computing to benefit our environment”. They even have nice calculators and graphs of how Green…
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It is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing!
Companies need to take a lot of care when making Green claims. The whole Green energy space is massively complex and it is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing. What do I mean? Well, take the Irish energy sector, for example. Anyone who generates electricity in Ireland, which is to be…