Thread by @davidfickling, I'm all in favour of full and honest #climate disclosures.But does @CampbellSoupCo [...]

David Fickling

davidfickling

I& #39;m all in favour of full and honest #climate disclosures.

But does @CampbellSoupCo really account for nearly 14% of the world& #39;s ~36bn tonnes a year of CO2 emissions?

https://www.campbellcsr.com/cr-at-campbell/performance-scorecard.html">https://www.campbellcsr.com/cr-at-cam...

Has better methodology really resulted in them increasing their Scope 3 emissions by *68 million percent* over the previous year?

I& #39;m struggling to find justification in the footnote for Campbell& #39;s accounting for almost as much emissions as *the U.S. in total*.

I hope this isn& #39;t just evidence that the directors of Campbell& #39;s pay zero attention to reading their climate disclosures before putting them out.

This does suggest a very easy path to reducing Scope 3 emissions by 99% or more on a 2019 baseline.

Here& #39;s some other odd ones. @ThaioilC reckons it accounts for more emissions than Japan and Germany *put together*:

I suspect this is a million tonnes/thousand tonnes drafting error.

https://www.thaioilgroup.com/upload/media_file/202002280842_TOPIntegratedReport2019_EN.pdf">https://www.thaioilgroup.com/upload/me...

And Saipem reckons it accounts for more Scope 3 than Saudi Arabia& #39;s domestic carbon emissions:

https://www.saipem.com/en/making-change-possible/enabling-carbon-footprint-reductions/ghg-reduction-and-energy-efficiency

There& #39;s">https://www.saipem.com/en/making... at least a plausible explanation for this based on how it accounts for oilfield services Scope 3, but it doesn& #39;t look right.

And Saipem reckons it accounts for more Scope 3 than Saudi Arabia& #39;s domestic carbon emissions: https://www.saipem.com/en/making... at least a plausible explanation for this based on how it accounts for oilfield services Scope 3, but it doesn& #39;t look right.

Anyway, it& #39;s nice to see more companies disclosing this stuff and not playing it down. But I feel some of these numbers owe more to management not paying attention and ending up with ridiculously large figures as a result, which isn& #39;t really the change that& #39;s needed.

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