Greenwash Of The Week: Climate Greenwash Awards 2009

This week I have a special treat for you – the 6 nominees for the Climate Greenwash Awards 2009 over in Copenhagen. The awards have been organized to highlight how companies are greenwashing their behavior to claim they can be part of the solution to climate change, while they continue to pump out carbon emissions and exacerbate climate change. This should be fun to watch.

The 6 nominees are:

• ArcelorMittal – nominated for profiting from the EU emission trading scheme (ETS) by lobbying governments to get surplus free emissions permits and failing to make real cuts in CO_2 emissions. The steel giant also promotes pseudo-solutions to climate change such as “lightweight steel cars”, nuclear plants and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
• BP – nominated for their enthusiastic lobbying for carbon trading as a false solution to climate change, for cutting their investment in renewable energy, for massive investment in fossil fuels and for, inspite of all this, claiming to be green.
• DONG – nominated for selling coal-based energy production as climate action
• Repsol – nominated for blatantly greenwashing their operations, presenting an image of corporate responsibility towards communities and the environment, while in reality exacerbating the climate crisis, endangering indigenous people and damaging the environment.
• Shell – nominated for making misleading claims about its action to tackle climate change while withdrawing investments from renewable energy supplies.
• Vattenfall – nominated for its green spin on climate change, portraying itself as a climate champion while lobbying to continue business as usual, using coal, nuclear power, and pseudo-solutions such as agrofuels and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Voting in the awards runs from May 13 – 22 online at www.climategreenwash.org

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