Charcon is part of Aggregate Industries. We've previously posted If AI’s record is an example of corporate action on climate change, we’re all screwed.
Nevertheless, Charcon tweets photos of solar panels and wind turbines, says "we’ll continue our mission to cut our net CO2 emissions", and points to aggregate.com/sustainability/our-performance.
One of our sustainability sub-sectors is #climate, and we’ll continue our mission to cut our net CO2 emissions of all products. Find out more about how we are committed to tackling climate change: https://t.co/12xlb45Vzt #aggregateindustries #charcon #sustainability pic.twitter.com/nG6TC5evrD— CharconUK (@CharconUK) August 8, 2019
There you will find this table, and yes, a clear indication of exactly how committed – or not – Aggregate Industries is in its "mission to cut net CO2 emissions... [and] tackling climate change" – or rather, global heating as Prof Richard Betts a key climate scientist at the UK Met Office warns.
Whether Charcon gives a toss about climate change or global heating we will never know. Its factories produce concrete products for the UK "hard landscaping" market. The photograph Charcon uses in its tweet above bears no relation to its activities – neither to one of its sites, nor to any of its products. In fact, it's not even remotely close. The greenwash pushed out by Charcon – to show it cares, even if it doesn't, to show it's doing something about CO2 emissions, even if it isn't – is a stock photo of a scene in Thailand, also shown here. A photo, in fact, showing not what Charcon is doing, but what others are doing in "the race of our lives and for our lives."
"Preventing irreversible climate disruption is the race of our lives and for our lives. It is a race we can – and must – win." -- @antonioguterres calling for urgent and ambitious #ClimateAction. https://t.co/Vn6VtSvUZO pic.twitter.com/vAWJJFWtGT— United Nations (@UN) August 1, 2019
