How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are using accounting techniques to hide their growing emissions, while working to influence pollution disclosure rules
Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions — By its own account, Amazon is a green business leader.
Financial Times
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@accountabletech
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Take note: Big Tech is working “behind the scenes to shape a once-in-a-decade rewrite of the rules governing how pollution from power use is disclosed.” https://www.ft.com/...
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Pilita Clark
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Great reporting here from @kenza_brya74393 and colleagues on a big, hidden net zero problem https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
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Matt Huber
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Nice to see the FT take on the potential “emissions gaming” from Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) by big tech firms. “The basic fact is you can be solar powered all night long with today's accounting, and that's absurd.” https://www.ft.com/... [image]
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Elizabeth Kolbert
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One thing Big Tech knows is numbers. When it comes to their net zero pledges, they want to fudge them. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
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Nicholas Beale
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Important article in @ft from @kenzaBryan @CamillaHodgson & @JanaTauschinski on how Big Tech is quietly trying to reshape how pollution is reported https://www.ft.com/... [image]
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@beyond_fossils
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#BigTech giants like Amazon & Meta are trying to rewrite the rules so that they can underreport their emissions by up to 90%! We need to keep offsets out of corporate accounting so that companies are compelled to actually cut their emissions. https://www.ft.com/...
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@beyond_fossils
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🚨New report reveals how a new initiative is trying to weaken the rules for corporate emissions accounting and keep the real numbers hidden through #Offsets. With the @ghgprotocol in review, we have a chance to introduce better accounting standards. https://speakslouder.org/... [v…