6 Nominees for the Climate Greenwash Awards 2009

On the eve of the World Business Summit in Copenhagen, the world’s worst climate greenwasher will be crowned. The Climate Greenwash Awards 2009 highlights the ways in which businesses have promoted false solutions to the climate crisis, insisting that we can continue burning coal and oil.

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).

You can help choose the winner! Read more about each company’s greenwashing offenses and then vote online at www.climategreenwash.org today and tomorrow.

Link [Greenwash Awards] via [The Good Human]

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