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说到没做到,企业应对气候变化不力

说到没做到,企业应对气候变化不力

Nicole Goodkind 2022-02-14
最近的分析发现,其中有很多公司在兑现其承诺方面还做的远远不够。

全球有200多家大型公司已承诺在2040年前实现净零排放,这意味着他们对待气候变化的态度是异常认真的。然而,最近的分析发现,其中有很多公司在兑现其承诺方面还做的远远不够。

促进减缓气候变化举措的独立机构新气候研究所(New Climate Institute)的报告称,这些公司的计划仅能够让排放平均降低40%。尽管削减幅度巨大,但与这些公司所声称的目标还相距甚远。

新气候研究所的一名分析师、该调查作者托马斯·戴在一份声明中表示:“我们对于自己看到的一切充满了幼稚的乐观。令我们感到失望的是,我们所发现的创造力要比预期的少很多。”

该报告审视了25家已承诺在未来数十年内实现净零碳排放的大型知名企业,包括亚马逊(Amazon)、苹果(Apple)、谷歌(Google)和沃尔玛(Walmart)。其中很多公司计划通过从移除大气二氧化碳的项目那里购买积分来抵消排放影响。

研究人员指出,问题在于其中很多项目并不可靠而且名不副实。报告称:“至少有三分之二的公司依靠森林或其他生态活动带来的碳移除效力,然而,它很容易被逆转,例如一场森林大火。”

但是,各大公司认为,自己在预防碳排放和气候变化造成的进一步破坏方面所取得的成果依然远超很多首要国家。一些公司认为,该报告只是谈到了其部分计划。

例如,葛兰素史克(GlaxoSmithKline)称,公司将使用“滑翔道”的方式来实现其净零目标。依据这一计划,公司将在2028-2030年期间削减公司半数的碳排放。因此,尽管这家医药巨头可能在眼下并未走入正轨(报告称,“其碳削减通道意味着葛兰素史克不会采取短期气候行动”),但随着时间的推移,其举措将大幅加速。

与此同时,该报告发现,亚马逊的碳中和计划“没有多少诚意”,意味其兑现目标的可能性不大。然而该公司在一份声明中表示,自己依然致力于在2040年前实现净零目标,相对于各国领袖在《巴黎协定》中设定的各自国家实现整体净零排放的日期提前了10年。该声明称,亚马逊计划在2025年之前使用100%的可再生能源来支持其业务,在2030年之前实现半数发货的净零排放,并在2030年前部署10万辆电动送货车。

雀巢(Nestlé)全球气候交付和可持续采购负责人本杰明·维尔称,该报告并未完全审视其公司的计划。他说:“我们对审视公司气候变化行动和承诺的举措表示欢迎。然而,该报告并未完全理解我们的方法,并含有大量的不准确信息。雀巢气候路线图已经得到了科学碳目标倡议组织(Science-Based Targets Initiative,一家企业可持续性调查机构)的验证。我们在这方面的工作十分严谨、广泛。”

尽管如此,新气候研究所的托马斯表示,各大公司在享受绿色动议带来的公共声誉时并没有投入多少精力来履行其承诺,而是“一如往常”。他说:“各大公司还有很大的改善余地,我们对此感到非常失望和吃惊。它们需要大幅提升这些目标的透明度。”

该研究所并未围绕目标完成的“高诚意度”进行排名,然而,它确实提到有一家公司——航运巨头马士基(Maersk)——有“合理的诚意”和透明度。

该报告称:“马士基通过航运排放脱碳举措,将自己定位为运输领域的首要参与者。然而对于如何实现电力需求和供应链排放脱碳,马士基并未提供明确的路线图。随着马士基转而使用替代燃料,这一方面的相对重要性也会逐渐增加。”(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

全球有200多家大型公司已承诺在2040年前实现净零排放,这意味着他们对待气候变化的态度是异常认真的。然而,最近的分析发现,其中有很多公司在兑现其承诺方面还做的远远不够。

促进减缓气候变化举措的独立机构新气候研究所(New Climate Institute)的报告称,这些公司的计划仅能够让排放平均降低40%。尽管削减幅度巨大,但与这些公司所声称的目标还相距甚远。

新气候研究所的一名分析师、该调查作者托马斯·戴在一份声明中表示:“我们对于自己看到的一切充满了幼稚的乐观。令我们感到失望的是,我们所发现的创造力要比预期的少很多。”

该报告审视了25家已承诺在未来数十年内实现净零碳排放的大型知名企业,包括亚马逊(Amazon)、苹果(Apple)、谷歌(Google)和沃尔玛(Walmart)。其中很多公司计划通过从移除大气二氧化碳的项目那里购买积分来抵消排放影响。

研究人员指出,问题在于其中很多项目并不可靠而且名不副实。报告称:“至少有三分之二的公司依靠森林或其他生态活动带来的碳移除效力,然而,它很容易被逆转,例如一场森林大火。”

但是,各大公司认为,自己在预防碳排放和气候变化造成的进一步破坏方面所取得的成果依然远超很多首要国家。一些公司认为,该报告只是谈到了其部分计划。

例如,葛兰素史克(GlaxoSmithKline)称,公司将使用“滑翔道”的方式来实现其净零目标。依据这一计划,公司将在2028-2030年期间削减公司半数的碳排放。因此,尽管这家医药巨头可能在眼下并未走入正轨(报告称,“其碳削减通道意味着葛兰素史克不会采取短期气候行动”),但随着时间的推移,其举措将大幅加速。

与此同时,该报告发现,亚马逊的碳中和计划“没有多少诚意”,意味其兑现目标的可能性不大。然而该公司在一份声明中表示,自己依然致力于在2040年前实现净零目标,相对于各国领袖在《巴黎协定》中设定的各自国家实现整体净零排放的日期提前了10年。该声明称,亚马逊计划在2025年之前使用100%的可再生能源来支持其业务,在2030年之前实现半数发货的净零排放,并在2030年前部署10万辆电动送货车。

雀巢(Nestlé)全球气候交付和可持续采购负责人本杰明·维尔称,该报告并未完全审视其公司的计划。他说:“我们对审视公司气候变化行动和承诺的举措表示欢迎。然而,该报告并未完全理解我们的方法,并含有大量的不准确信息。雀巢气候路线图已经得到了科学碳目标倡议组织(Science-Based Targets Initiative,一家企业可持续性调查机构)的验证。我们在这方面的工作十分严谨、广泛。”

尽管如此,新气候研究所的托马斯表示,各大公司在享受绿色动议带来的公共声誉时并没有投入多少精力来履行其承诺,而是“一如往常”。他说:“各大公司还有很大的改善余地,我们对此感到非常失望和吃惊。它们需要大幅提升这些目标的透明度。”

该研究所并未围绕目标完成的“高诚意度”进行排名,然而,它确实提到有一家公司——航运巨头马士基(Maersk)——有“合理的诚意”和透明度。

该报告称:“马士基通过航运排放脱碳举措,将自己定位为运输领域的首要参与者。然而对于如何实现电力需求和供应链排放脱碳,马士基并未提供明确的路线图。随着马士基转而使用替代燃料,这一方面的相对重要性也会逐渐增加。”(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

Over 200 of the world’s largest companies have vowed to get to net-zero emissions by 2040, signaling how seriously they’re taking climate change. But a recent analysis has found that many of those firms aren't doing nearly enough to back up their promises.

Their plans would reduce emissions by an average of only 40%, according to the report by the New Climate Institute, an independent organization that promotes efforts to slow climate change. That’s a significant reduction, but nowhere near the companies’ stated goals.

“We went in naively optimistic about what we might see,” Thomas Day, an analyst at the New Climate Institute and author of the study, said in a statement. “We were disappointed we didn’t find a lot more creativity that we expected to find.”

The report examined the climate plans of 25 large and high-profile companies that have pledged to get to zero carbon emissions in the coming decades, including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Walmart. Many of those companies planned to offset emissions by buying credits from projects that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The problem, the researchers said, is that many of those projects are unreliable and overpromise. “At least two thirds of the companies rely on removals from forests and other biological activities, which can easily be reversed by, for example, a forest fire,” the report said.

But companies argued that they are still well ahead of what many major countries are doing to prevent further destruction caused by carbon emissions and climate change. The report, some companies argued, failed to take into account for all of their plans.

GlaxoSmithKline, for example, says it will use a “glidepath” to reach its net-zero goals. Under its plan, the company would cut half of its carbon emissions by 2028 to 2030. So while the pharmaceutical giant may not appear to be on track today—"With its carbon reduction pathway, GSK does not send signals for short-term climate action," the report says—its efforts will speed up considerably over time.

Meanwhile, the report found that Amazon’s carbon-neutral plan was “low integrity”, meaning that it's unlikely to meet its goal. But the company said in a statement that it was still committed to hitting its net zero target by 2040, a decade ahead of the date world leaders had set in the Paris Agreement for their country's to become net zero overall. Amazon plans to power its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, deliver half its shipments with net zero carbon by 2030, and deploy 100,000 electric delivery vehicles by 2030, the statement said.

Benjamin Ware, the global head of climate delivery and sustainable sourcing at Nestlé, also said the report didn’t fully examine his company’s plan. “We welcome scrutiny of our actions and commitments on climate change,” he said. “However, the report lacks understanding of our approach and contains significant inaccuracies. Nestlé’s climate roadmap has been validated by the Science-Based Targets Initiative [a corporate sustainability organization]. The work that went into it is rigorous and extensive.”

Still, Day, from the New Climate Institute, says companies are benefiting from the public perception of going green while doing little beyond “business as usual” to back their claims. “We were very disappointed and surprised at how much room for improvement there was. Companies need to be much more transparent about these goals,” he said.

The institute ranked no company's as having "high integrity" in accomplishing its goals, but it did say that one company—shipping giant Maersk—had "reasonable integrity" and transparency.

"Maersk positions itself as a leading actor in the transport sector through its proactive efforts to decarbonize shipping emissions," the report said. "However, the company does not yet provide a clear trajectory to

decarbonize emissions from electricity demand and supply chains, the relative importance of which is likely to grow with the shift to alternative fuels."

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