A new Earthworks report reveals how fossil fuel giants use 'confusing jargon, false solutions, and misleading metrics' to 'claim climate action without actually reducing emissions.'
"Oil companies use deceptive language and false promises to pretend they're solving the climate crisis, when in reality they're only making it worse," said Fossil Free Media director Jamie Henn.
The analysis comes on the heels of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that Earthworks policy director Lauren Pagel The report highlights that"every company's climate ambitions fall far short of the IPCC target of reducing emissions 50% by the end of the decade because they omit scope 3 emissions.
The companies also have other methods of concealing their true contributions to heating the planet. The paper points out that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas reporting system which"allows half of the oil and gas industry's methane pollution to go unreported has helped the industry to portray itself as a climate solution."One of the most common ways oil and gas companies are reducing emissions is by selling off their assets, i.e.
The paper is endorsed by 14 groups, including the Center for Climate Integrity, whose president, Richard Wiles, emphasized that"major fossil fuel polluters are continuing exploration, hoarding leases, increasing production, and dodging responsibility for emissions from their products."
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