Corporate 'Net Zero' BS is all the rage. Don't get taken in!

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  • Everyone's got a 'Net-Zero' plan these days, haven't they? No self-respecting company would be without one. But are these claims a genuine marker of real decarbonisation within a business or just an exercise in corporate box-ticking? Now a new report has analysed 300 of the world's largest corporations to find out the answer.
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ความคิดเห็น • 732

  • @jcgoedkoop
    @jcgoedkoop 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +194

    What a sorry bunch of liars. Thank you, Dave, for doing the research!

    • @abody499
      @abody499 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      He just reported the research. The research was done by the researchers. I only say so because it's important that people understand the difference.

    • @volkerengels5298
      @volkerengels5298 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Seriously - who thought that....

    • @abody499
      @abody499 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​ @Jcewazhere no idea who that is

    • @youxkio
      @youxkio 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep, I was also looking for this comment.

    • @a.randomjack6661
      @a.randomjack6661 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's called marketing and public relations 🤪
      "The Century of the self" and one Machiavelli lecture by Michael Sugrue will help you understand a lot

  • @JSx145
    @JSx145 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    “It would be easy for me to do…
    …so let’s do that” 😂 well done!

  • @TheDanEdwards
    @TheDanEdwards 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    If you want to name-and-shame, then *name the members of the boards of those companies.*

  • @JustMe-fw4cq
    @JustMe-fw4cq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Wait till you find out how much in tax breaks these companies get.😱🤢😠🤬🤬!

    • @joemccarthy7120
      @joemccarthy7120 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is likely a tiny fraction of what green tech nonsense gets. Wind/solar are wildly subsidized and so are EV vehicle and battery production.

    • @johnharris199
      @johnharris199 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      $970 billion 2022 profits from the 10 worst companies is easy to find out. Could you please get an accurate figure of the tax breaks these 10 companies received in 2022? I would like to see what % of annual profits achieved was because of taxpayers funding. Exxon Mobil received more than$1.8 (BILLION) in taxpayer funded subsidies, they also got billions for research and development into carbon capture projects that use more fossil fuels planning and implementing them with higher cost than the no brainer solutions of planting a trillion trees! Oh crap I forgot Bill Gates said planting trees will not help!!! That is total bullshit! He means planting that amount of trees will not financially benefit the funders, so it's a waste of time because no profit can be made!

  • @rklauco
    @rklauco 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +234

    I'm sorry to say, but this video is not really shocking, but quite entertaining - all of us know what is happening and your take on it is really entertaining. Thanks! :)

    • @gamingtonight1526
      @gamingtonight1526 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Many don't!

    • @TennesseeJed
      @TennesseeJed 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Everything in the meta-modern paradigm era is hokum.

    • @volkerengels5298
      @volkerengels5298 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ..cause they comfort themselves...
      How many excuses are OK for adults in modern context?@@gamingtonight1526

    • @Splarkszter
      @Splarkszter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yup. Many people don't know, this is why free education is important.
      We need to change people's culture.

    • @volkerengels5298
      @volkerengels5298 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      'people's culture' is 'our culture'@@Splarkszter

  • @inelouw
    @inelouw 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

    I noticed all the "net-zero" claims a while ago and started wondering what they meant by that too, so I did some research and basically came to the conclusion that it means "let's go on producing huge amounts of greenhouse gasses and hope we find some magic bullet to offset it, because we don't want to actually REDUCE emissions."

    • @brianhirt5027
      @brianhirt5027 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It means that they're going to continue regardless until the economics of petroleum become more costly than their alternatives. Period. You can't fight the economics of the situation with good intentions or pie in the sky ambitions. Many before you have tried with more causes than I have time or memory to count. All of them have since become extinct or so marginalized they might as well be.
      Now you can stop poopooing the ONE set of people actually buckling up & doing something about it or you can sit around waiting forever for a political train to carry you to your promised land while everything else catches fire around you.
      Pick one.

    • @brianhirt5027
      @brianhirt5027 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Figure out where your priorities & resourcies are better invested. Is some progress better than no progress? Can you find it within yourself to not have to approve of the method but still help achieve (or at least not block) the result? There's a lot that's going to have to be plugged in to get this all under control. A lot of it is going to be via methods you may or may not 100% like. Chances are there will be a LOT of it you wont like, but if the goal is important enough to you than the means, you can learn to tolerate it. WTF is wrong with you people? You act like unless everyting is done your exact burger king way the world must burn. It's fucking retarded.

    • @dantruesdell7215
      @dantruesdell7215 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      My take from some of the "green" ads was, at least for the oil companies, their "We're implementing processes to reach net zero" is only aimed at their operations (if they're even going to do that). They are still planning on delivering (and, in some cases, expanding) a product that is the number one source of carbon.

    • @Sivah_Akash
      @Sivah_Akash 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Agree. However if a company has a Net-zero target through the SBTi, it actually means they need to reduce their majority of their emissions. Not a lot of companies have this, but something to keep in mind. :)

    • @user-zn4pw5nk2v
      @user-zn4pw5nk2v 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Reducing your expansion will be net negative on it, they just want to be net zero on the change of the growth(and keeping emissions high as long as possible), if governments wanted to stop the climate change carbon trading wouldn't have been a thing, there wouldn't have been a loophole of capturing a gram of sulphur (by you purposefully releasing it to capture it later) in exchange for a ton of carbon released for free.

  • @Harpreet06
    @Harpreet06 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    I think you should also name the ones that are in the A tiers so we can support them for doing the right thing.

    • @bobandrews2328
      @bobandrews2328 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes and the form and type of manufacturing they are profitably involved in. Something for the use of grants or government contracts isn't exactly on the same playing field as those that work years if not decades developing the conditions to potentially profit from their efforts especially given all the political "BS" needed to wade through.

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    When I look at old pictures of London when I lived there over fifty years ago and see that all the roofs were black from soot and filth. And now, when I see the videos of London and all the roofs are white including the dome of St. Pauls, I can see the future has brightened amazingly and I suspect will continue to do so.

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Quite. And then consider that all the world’s sea-going vessels (about 50,000 of them) were in 2020 forced to switch to low-sulphur bunker oil, you can imagine how much cleaner the atmosphere has become. Indeed it’s now so clean that many believe it’s affecting the climate by letting more sunlight heat the oceans.

    • @fluidthought42
      @fluidthought42 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sirrathersplendid4825
      And chemtrails slightly cooled the world, but the important bit is nipping or reversing greater cumulative long term negative outcomes rather than quick fixes that only make things worse in the long term. A slight bit of more sunlight is preferable to a lot bit more carbon or sulphur in the atmosphere, especially since the hypothesis of sulfuric clouds and their supposedly underestimated influence on ocean temperatures is new and undersupported while carbon's influence on global temperatures is well known and accepted, even by the scientists who propose the sulfur cloud hypothesis. Indeed, James Hansen is one of the most vocal proponents of radical decarbonization.
      It's odd to take his divisive hypothesis at face value but regard the accepted theory in his field he himself is a proponent of and, consciously or not, underplay it's importance.

  • @KundaliniMaster
    @KundaliniMaster 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Thank you :) More people need to know that If we had net zero now it would still be a long time before any 'improvement' took place.

    • @Cesar13M
      @Cesar13M 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Make a google search cop28 carbon capture but you not wrong it will take at least 20 years without carbon capture .

  • @richardalsop3393
    @richardalsop3393 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I recently questioned one of our senior State Senators in North Carolina about his opposition to solar panels being promoted by our 'regulated utility,' Duke Energy, named in your presentation. The bill he introduced was to require the company to set aside, ahead of the build, all the funds necessary to fully remove and recycle the panels and restore all the land used for the solar farm before they would allow any new one ones to be permitted. Normally money would be set aside from revenue over the life of the operation to do this, as opposed to all money up front. Fossil fuel plants "are not" required to do the same (no surprise there). The reason, I believe, is to offset another law in NC where the utility is required to provide the cheapest source of power from available sources. When solar and wind became less expensive, the legislators who were beholden to the fossil fuel industry started "gaming the system," by adding costs to the solar installations. An early attempt (which met with some success) was requiring the company to accept large quantities of Turkey feathers from that vast statewide industry, and find a way to burn it for fuel. (no joke!) Duke has installed large solar farms throughout the Carolinas and are reworking the grid to create a distributed network to allow sources other than power plants to put power on our grid. They also have large wind farms across the midwest and recently earned a Federal license to build a wind farm at Long Bay off the coast of NC. They have shut down a number of coal plants, committing to have all shut down by 2040. Unfortunately, they are replacing some with gas turbines to comply with the law (the latter of which is certainly no net zero solution). Unfortunately, with the system gamed, solar is more costly than gas turbines. (go figure!) Not everyone can afford solar panels on our homes, but it is reasonable for us to do our part by using less energy... and certainly challenge our elected officials who are undermining efforts to decarbonize. In the interim, I expect you will find net zero continuing to be mentioned in their literature. At least I hope so. Certainly a term we need to keep in front of the public. And certainly we can look at the bigger picture instead of a simple word count in literature to determine who the real culprits are in our global narrative.

  • @tiemenvanderbijl785
    @tiemenvanderbijl785 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "so let's do that!" Yest JHaT. I love it you just do that! no clickbait. just nail them to the post on the public square!. love it

  • @falsificationism
    @falsificationism 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    MASSIVE credit here. Thank you for saying what needed to be said.
    IMHO this video doesn't go nearly far enough; the logic of capital will ALWAYS make "corporate social responsibility" a means to an end (better returns for shareholders). Let's NEVER get this twisted...this was always pure propagandistic manipulation, and every future effort along similar lines will be equally indifferent to anything but shareholder interests.
    Let's begin by removing all subsidies from these companies, starting with the egg, dairy, meat, and fish industries; use the savings to protect workers in those industries and subsidize foods at the consumer and farmer level. Kraft, Tyson, Cargill, and others don't need subsidies, but some humans could really use a lower grocery bill.

  • @mafarmerga
    @mafarmerga 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
    - James Baldwin

  • @Mr2ronron
    @Mr2ronron 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    We’ve changed all the process heating in our manufacturing process from natural gas fired furnaces to electric heating. We did this without customer or local authority mandate or requirements. The customers are more than happy to find, when they send out their “sustainability surveys” that we are no longer using fossil fuel for process heating. However, they continue to insist we must meet prices from competitors who use less expensive fuel fired processes and don’t want to discuss the price increase we would need to impose if we were to sign up for renewable energy to run our processes. So, at no cost to them, they get to include our process “greenery” in their overall supply data while blocking our path to the next level getting away from dependence on coal fired electric power. Pretty slick, eh?

    • @williamclark6466
      @williamclark6466 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Thank you for your actions to reduce the environmental impact of your processes. That is very good.
      It is unfortunate that most customers/people aren't careful enough about supporting such actions in their choices of where to spend their money.
      Please don't give up.

    • @juliamarsh2077
      @juliamarsh2077 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you for taking positive action to reduce your emissions.

    • @MaxVliet
      @MaxVliet 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      This is why we need to increase pressure on government to make these changes mandatory for all companies.

    • @user-pc2dz3bd3u
      @user-pc2dz3bd3u 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So how is the electricity produced?

    • @allesdurchprobiert
      @allesdurchprobiert 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, it's all about incentives and punishment in capitalism. As long as asshole behavior is rewarded by the system, and no good deed goes unpunished, not much will change. A CO2 tax (and yes, IMHO even pollution certificate trade to avoid micromanagement by governments) is a step in the right direction to punish unwanted behavior and incentify wanted behavior. But governments need to make sure it doesn't kill the lower middleclass and below, by reducing the financial burden on average people elsewhere, financed by the CO2 tax. A man can dream...

  • @Mountain-Man-3000
    @Mountain-Man-3000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    Yeah it's super annoying hearing all the bullshit from corporations.

    • @johnburn8031
      @johnburn8031 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Agreed.

    • @ThatOpalGuy
      @ThatOpalGuy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      just like when they advertise as "x supportive", it is all PANDERING to get YOUR money.

    • @joemccarthy7120
      @joemccarthy7120 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And what are you doing to be personally net zero?

    • @DrakeN-ow1im
      @DrakeN-ow1im 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joemccarthy7120 None of yor damned business, nor is it relevant in this context. Smartarse.

    • @Pappaous
      @Pappaous 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/bAa4OHzmPpw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wEPlZKOPjv0lTAlh

  • @ds5015
    @ds5015 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Always appreciate the high quality visuals!!!!!

  • @ndazza
    @ndazza 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "So let's do that!"
    I nearly spat my ice cream 😂

  • @kravond
    @kravond 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for working on this video.

  • @RyanBissell
    @RyanBissell 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was 10:30 in before I realized just how polished your infographics are. Well done.

  • @carlbrenninkmeijer8925
    @carlbrenninkmeijer8925 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Thank you for your research and presentation. The wire that pulls us out of the dirt is thin, but it is made of bright honest people.

    • @AtlantaTerry
      @AtlantaTerry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      "Soylent Green is people!"

    • @RWBHere
      @RWBHere 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The nasty thing is that there are people who would be happy to produce Soylent Green,@@AtlantaTerry . I guess that Soylent Greenwashing is one step towards that...

  • @CanCobb
    @CanCobb 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They're so afraid of having a couple of stranded assets that they're ensuring that we all become stranded asses.

  • @colineckstrand271
    @colineckstrand271 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Love your sense of humor and content!!

  • @lucemiserlohn
    @lucemiserlohn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Can't wait to see your report on the cop-out crapshow ;)

  • @Whodatbuoy
    @Whodatbuoy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    This needs to be the new standard for ESG stock portfolios. Every time I looked at the contents of an 'ESG ISA' or 'ESG fund' I audibly groan as I see bunch of fossil fuel big hitters

    • @xxwookey
      @xxwookey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is because getting a good ESG score is all about compliance and risk management - so you get points for actually complying with regulations you should comply with anyway, but it doesn't matter if what your company does is fundamentally high-carbon (like Macdonalds or a fossil-fuel-extractor), nor do you get points for doing something helpful (like making only electric cars or bikes). There was a good volts podcast about this madness in July 2023. ESG does not do what most people think it does, and fossil fuel companies love it because they can get good ratings without fundamentally changing anything about what they do.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No climate emergency, so says Dr. John Cpausen, Nobel prize winner in physics.
      Ask Bald Dave if he has a Nobel Prize.

    • @xxwookey
      @xxwookey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@scottslotterbeck3796 There's always a few people still in denial that we even have a problem. Such people are irrelevant at this point. There have been several old physicists of high standing over the last 20 years who know bugger all about climate science but have decided they know better than all the people who do actually have relevent expertise. The fact that some self-important old profs don't know where their own expertise ends is just one of those things.

    • @TaiViinikka
      @TaiViinikka 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@scottslotterbeck3796 John Francis Clauser, whose name you mangled, has studied extensively and made ground-breaking experimental observations in the field of quantum entanglement and the physical principles of 'local realism.' His PhD thesis was about sneaking up on observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He has studied climate change, and made climate observations, exactly as much as any other jackass you meet on Main St. His data-free reflexive denial is religiously motivated and in no way special.

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis2663 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    COP OUT

  • @piernikowyloodek
    @piernikowyloodek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for breaking down this fantastic report for us! I'm always in awe from these graph animations

  • @marsupialdungbucket
    @marsupialdungbucket 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for the investment advice. As you say 'Money talks' and even those of us with little of the stuff can make a difference when working together..

  • @abdul2009
    @abdul2009 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What is it with these people and oil?!?!?! Or at least the original people, whilst the decent ones now try to move forward.

    • @rayhill5767
      @rayhill5767 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everything EVERYTHING you touch and consume is soaked in OIL.

  • @triplikeido75
    @triplikeido75 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've never laughed so heartily while receiving such dire and maddening information. "A spoonful of sugar.." 😅

  • @wbaloch
    @wbaloch 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's important to call out greenwashing, but also important to highlight those companies and countries where it's not 100% greenwashing! It's especially important for the developed countries to enforce compliance and this can best be done by co-operation across industrial sectors and across nations. COP resolutions have to have teeth - i.e. censure and sanction regimes for those actors that don't comply with whatever co-operation is agreed.
    It reminds me of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties in the 20th century, where the partners agreed to "mutually Trust but verify" and followed through with those agreements😀

  • @dougtheslug6435
    @dougtheslug6435 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm net zero in my bank account.....I take out what goes in.

  • @mikemellor759
    @mikemellor759 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I knew about corporate greenwashing but this video gave clear information about the worst culprits - thank you. 👏👏

  • @francesramsden1201
    @francesramsden1201 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Well done Dave. Good to see you suggesting something ordinary folk can do. 💚

    • @ThatOpalGuy
      @ThatOpalGuy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      short of completely eschewing all forms of technology and manufactured goods....there is little you can do except try to restrain the amount you waste in daily life

    • @JustHaveaThink
      @JustHaveaThink  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Cheers Frances

    • @a.randomjack6661
      @a.randomjack6661 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JustHaveaThink I hope you enjoy what you do. You,re really good at it 👍

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bald Dave is getting rich scaring children. What a putz!

  • @ThatOpalGuy
    @ThatOpalGuy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    buying offsets is one thing, but NO company is even close to being carbon neutral, at this point.

  • @Magik1369
    @Magik1369 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks Dave..appreciate you exposing these top 10 green washing liars. I will personally boycott all their products and tell my friends and family to do the same.

    • @Julian_Wang-pai
      @Julian_Wang-pai 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds like the kernel of a really powerful response, I'll be doing the same.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I will double up my purchases.
      Bald Dave is getting filthy rich scaring children.

  • @davidboyle1902
    @davidboyle1902 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are the only presenter who makes me laugh at information that would otherwise have me pulling my hair out. Your take on our crazy world is in many ways unique, and I applaud you for it. Please keep doing what you’re doing. Great work.

  • @erininnes7448
    @erininnes7448 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's almost like an economic system predicated on constant growth and maximizing shareholder profit is bullshit or something. Weird.

  • @KarenHawes
    @KarenHawes 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When companies force their employees to commute back into the office, instead of working from home, their "carbon-reduction initiative" claims are even bigger b.s.

  • @luke9033
    @luke9033 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Top-notch work as always, Mr Borlace 🎉🎉🎉

  • @mahdedarmo
    @mahdedarmo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    Thank you for easing us into apocalypse with informative well-researched independent content!

    • @ThatOpalGuy
      @ThatOpalGuy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yeah, well humans have a great track record of ruining things, why would civilization be immune?

    • @brianhirt5027
      @brianhirt5027 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jeez. It's gross exaggeration & miscatergorizations like that that put off middle america for years. Wan't just the denialists chumming those waters. Was just as much a factor of y'alls penchant to overdramatize every...Fucking...Detail. Made it MUCH harder to take any of y'alls claims seriously.

    • @JustHaveaThink
      @JustHaveaThink  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Our pleasure!

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is no clinate emergency. Look up Dr. John Clausen, 2022 Nobel prize winner.

    • @spiritlevelstudios
      @spiritlevelstudios 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Apocalypse had a positive meaning before religion distorted it. According to my TH-cam research.

  • @albertoporras04
    @albertoporras04 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

    Dave, good content as usual, but I think you should have also namechecked those companies who are doing well according to the report. We need to use both carrot and stick, if some companies are doing well we should give them credit.

    • @JustHaveaThink
      @JustHaveaThink  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Fair feedback Albert.

    • @teddybearroosevelt1847
      @teddybearroosevelt1847 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Which assumes that reducing emissions is still a good thing, which may not actually be true. Because of the aerosol masking effect we could in fact be making matters worse if we were to actually reduce emissions

    • @ThomasBomb45
      @ThomasBomb45 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is no reason to continue burning fossil fuels in order to keep the aerosols going. If we really want aerosols, we can release them purposefully. Which is still probably not a universal good

    • @Niklaos
      @Niklaos 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah I would have liked a short listing of the good students.

    • @rfrisbee1
      @rfrisbee1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@teddybearroosevelt1847Ever considered a job in corporate communications?

  • @ricoma6037
    @ricoma6037 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for persevering in our world 🌎 cause!

  • @planetvegan7843
    @planetvegan7843 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Self-improvement is weakness.

  • @robgahan5870
    @robgahan5870 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great idea on the pension. Searching right now 👍

  • @harcovanhees394
    @harcovanhees394 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    @6:30 "Let's do that!" Love it !!

  • @Sentrme
    @Sentrme 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'll be printing out a copy of the report. And begin to review my investments and what services I use.

  • @howtoappearincompletely9739
    @howtoappearincompletely9739 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That grading scatter-graph looked a lot better than I expected.

  • @theunknownunknowns5168
    @theunknownunknowns5168 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Time for the young generations to take action with extreme prejudice. Children of Kali style.

  • @derrickstableford8152
    @derrickstableford8152 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As an Albertan, imagine the fun I have with this. However it does align with what I advocate. Yes I might have missed out on some dividends, but does then allow me to call BS on the the emperors new threads.

  • @liztaiNCAD
    @liztaiNCAD 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You're always brilliant - but this week you are SUPER-BRILLIANT - clear concise and readable INFORMATION.! Thanks a million

    • @JustHaveaThink
      @JustHaveaThink  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for your support. I really appreciate it :-)

  • @petewright4640
    @petewright4640 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Was hoping to see the top 10 also 😐

    • @biggusdoggus
      @biggusdoggus 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It would have been nice in the video, but the links are available in the description.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bald Dave only likes to scare children.

  • @LivingProcess
    @LivingProcess 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Brilliant as always 💚 Stay hopeful

  • @xenocampanoli815
    @xenocampanoli815 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you, Dave.

    • @xenocampanoli815
      @xenocampanoli815 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All the rules and goals stuff is in defiance of the fact that that is exactly a primary goal of LLCs, whose very activity is to figure out a way to do their activities around rules systems that communities use to constrain them. The best thing that CAN be done is to legally establish a practice of maximal vigilantism to be acceptable against LLCs, as they need to be an exception because of their very state of existence. Until every citizen has a superior right of law enforcement to the LLCs themselves, they will continue to lie and break rules as, other than economies of scale, that is the only way they have to make money, and economies of scale can be managed by community organized utilities, so there is NO excuse for an LLC other than remnants of monies stolen in previous generations.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bald Dave is a liar.

  • @rlsearch1
    @rlsearch1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It is so refreshing to be given such interesting insights into what is happening globally within your field of interest; the fact that you have a wonderful sense of humour, is a huge cherry on the top 😂 many thanks and keep up the good work 🙏👏

  • @artfisher1235
    @artfisher1235 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dave you are so right. I am a corporate officer, and I can tell you that.

    • @artfisher1235
      @artfisher1235 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@erdelegy Simply do the best we can with regard to fuel decisions

    • @artfisher1235
      @artfisher1235 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@erdelegy I have turned my attention to cleaning coal combustion and selling economically to India and China and everyone else who is burning coal. India and China have a new coal fired plant going on line each week for the next 30 years, besides the ones they already operate. No other tactic to save the climate comes close when you look at the numbers.

  • @HearBetweenTheLines
    @HearBetweenTheLines 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are so, so, so great, thanks so much for *your* perseverance!

  • @andrewduff2048
    @andrewduff2048 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I love the TV commercials by oil companies that talk about them reaching net zero "in their operations". Has anyone ever said that is what they want? The problem really isn't the amount of greenhouse gases released to get their products from the ground and to the end user. The problem is the greenhouse gases released by using their products. The commercials are clearly designed to mislead people that want to be fooled or aren't looking closely. In a vacuum the pledge is better than nothing but if they are then going to say, "look how much we care about this" then maybe it's not.

    • @vincentrobinette1507
      @vincentrobinette1507 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So...Using wind or solar energy to run the well jacks doesn't count?😋😋

    • @DrakeN-ow1im
      @DrakeN-ow1im 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vincentrobinette1507 only if it is beneficial on the "bottom line"!

    • @solentbum
      @solentbum 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vincentrobinette1507 Much better to use the wind or solar energy to replace the oil products.

    • @willythemailboy2
      @willythemailboy2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's not perfect but it's a lot better than you might think. Ten to twenty percent of oil that comes out of the ground is used to... get oil out of the ground, refine it, ship it, etc. Net zero on the operations end would be equivalent to a 10-20% drop in oil use. Yes it's greenwashing to a degree but it's not nothing.

  • @philipjosling9511
    @philipjosling9511 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi Dave good content, here in NZ we are still on target with the methane emissions .
    Bio waste produces about 51% methane CH4 natural gas which at the rubbish waste sights
    Is used for electrical generation also farm cow bio waste is also used to heat and power vehicles
    The carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide are also filtered out before burning the gas

  • @MaxVliet
    @MaxVliet 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just shopping elsewhere isn't going to be enough. We need to apply pressure to the government to make them do more.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      China emits far more carbon than all of Europe.

  • @terryrigden4860
    @terryrigden4860 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another excellent video, the idea of checking where your money is invested is a great one

  • @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039
    @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great content. Always informative and well researched. Love this channel

  • @andrewsmith2591
    @andrewsmith2591 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great to see you own up to your incompetence (re Patreon). Glad you didn't try to 'Wash' over that.

  • @geoffansell4388
    @geoffansell4388 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you so much for your hard work Dave. Outstanding.

  • @danielmadar9938
    @danielmadar9938 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks

  • @timwedemeyer
    @timwedemeyer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The sarcasm is gold, as always

  • @phloxdiffusa
    @phloxdiffusa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Timely and appropriate, plus I have shared this

  • @elmojito
    @elmojito 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great episode but I would change the ending from checking our pensions on where we invest to what brands/companies we buy products from as the real awakening to the corporate world comes from the pocketbook.

  • @andresteiner8823
    @andresteiner8823 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    To get green concrete, you have to add green pigments to the concrete. Or do they foolish me ?

  • @vasiliskamperidis5344
    @vasiliskamperidis5344 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You absolutely nailing it, Dave - as always, besides! Many thanks for this excellent video, one more time!

  • @bugsygoo
    @bugsygoo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Maybe it would make a good video to look at what some of the best companies are doing. (It would certainly improve my mood!!) I see that there is only one company in the 'energy' category that meets gets into the 'aligned with Paris..' column, which is the Danish company Orsted. I'd like to know what they are doing right compared to the others. Another excellent video, btw. Love ya style!

  • @joweb1320
    @joweb1320 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Always great information!

    • @JustHaveaThink
      @JustHaveaThink  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cheers :-)

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For a bald-faced liar, Bald Dave is slick.
      Con men always are.

  • @buckles29
    @buckles29 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great episode Dave. The SBTI scheme is really important in clearly defining , measuring & reporting how companies are performing against the agreed targets & plans that they have laid out. I work for Aviva & am really pleased that they have taken such a leading role in getting this set up, so they can be confident that they are doing all they can to mitigate their own climate impacts (they have been carbon neutral since 2006-ish).
    Where you Pension (and banking) investments are held, are a brilliant way to force the direction of progress away from fossil fuels (and undesirable categories), to more sustainable alternatives.

  • @Leopard2
    @Leopard2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is one of the best videos you've done with a combination of information and action. Thank you.

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you yet again.

  • @obiwanbenobi4943
    @obiwanbenobi4943 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    LOL That groan sums it up so well... :) Keep on...

  • @jillkevinfrisby2743
    @jillkevinfrisby2743 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Great video as ever, Dave, but can I mention that there is a good alternative to selling out of all the shares in one's portfolio that are seen as egregious climate offenders. If you are a big institution you could insist that your fund manager actively engages with said companies to get them onto a better track. Big pension funds and big fund managers have a lot of clout and they can use it to good effect in shareholder meetings and in on going dialogue with management. Selling is also valid, but if you sold out of every carbon heavy / hypocritical company in favour of green businesses today, you would end up with quite a concentrated and undiversified savings portfolio.

  • @drabbit61
    @drabbit61 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your humor is a wonderful balance to the facts of this dire situation 😊
    The SBTI sounds like a real positive.
    Thanks again for great work, and for having the integrity to offer your thoughts and opinion.

  • @bettyswallocks6411
    @bettyswallocks6411 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m almost encouraged by the performance map - I actually thought it would be much more skewed to the left. Doesn’t make the situation any better, though. If they weren’t so focused on making as much money as possible today, they’d understand how close they are to losing it all tomorrow.

  • @richardkatz8713
    @richardkatz8713 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for the truth.

  • @BenVost
    @BenVost 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yay! You did one for my birthday! Thanks, Dave :)

  • @guyduincognito6416
    @guyduincognito6416 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This channel is well researched. I watch almost every your video

  • @b_uppy
    @b_uppy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just about any company that contracts with China (and likely any number of 3rd world countries) will do lousy on environmental and carbon sequestration concerns.
    This is why who we buy from is most important. The best way to reduce carbon is to buy from farmers who use restoration agriculture methods (sustainable is a big green-washing term, and regenerative can vary a lot as well). We can now buy eggs from pastured chickens that use chicken tractors. THAT IS PROGRESS.
    Plqhting trees in the mountains, and using localized rainwater harvesting using onsite materials, starting in the foothills will help draw carbon into the soil and increase green biomass. It will recharge freshwater supplies, reclaim land, create more resources, remediate challenged areas, lessen the effects of catastrophic weather events, lessen losses, as part of low tech, durable solutions.
    Pushing for more freight and passenger rail (in the US we especially need to expand rail in the West and Midwest) especially in larger countries. High speed rail is a money pit without other rail to support it.
    In Switzerland they emphasize rail travel that the rich want to ride, and it works. The arrival and departure times are crisp, stations are pleasant and trains adequately comfortable (they also have restrooms, wifi, and avoid the waiting times of airplanes...).
    We need to press for high-alue improvements, instead of pushing for "innovative tech" that merely plugs an increasing number of holes, at a larcenous prices...

  • @KeithCoffee
    @KeithCoffee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s really all about the limits to growth

  • @walterverlaan1286
    @walterverlaan1286 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As always, great video!

    • @JustHaveaThink
      @JustHaveaThink  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @fje1948
    @fje1948 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Many Thanks……

  • @susantownsend9340
    @susantownsend9340 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really appreciate you!😊

  • @josephhalwagy6435
    @josephhalwagy6435 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Western Governments have a lot to answer for legislatively allowing the behaviours of these corrupt companies

    • @williebeamish5879
      @williebeamish5879 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought Western Governments are these companies now. At least it appears that way.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's China. Building a coal-fired power plant every other WEEK!

    • @adrianrandi3738
      @adrianrandi3738 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 0.04% ...3% of this is manmade... climate change is a scam.. brainwashed Muppets!

  • @Cyrribrae
    @Cyrribrae 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good point. I do want to say that there are differences between companies that are big enough to be doing multiple - often contradictory - things at the same time and those that are literally doing nothing for the environment at all (and that, of course, runs its own gambit too). I think divestment generally is a good tool to wield - but in cases where a company is KINDA doing good but overselling or not doing enough, I'd rather not pull funding and positivity from them because all that means is that the good stuff gets dropped entirely and they double down on the bad stuff even harder. We need to be positive about steps that corporations take in the right direction AND pressure them to keep going. It's a tough balancing act - one that plays out in marketing more than reality far too often. But something I think is worth considering.

  • @Sivah_Akash
    @Sivah_Akash 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Companies who have a Science-based target through the SBTi are reducing their emissions much quicker than the other companies as well. So a bit of additional good news there as well.

  • @miguel5785
    @miguel5785 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    11:44 Great advice! Thank you,

  • @indieclubhouse5079
    @indieclubhouse5079 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another excellent film, Dave. It took me 4 attempts to find a financial advisor who could get their head around ESG pension funds, which didn't include Exxon in the top 10 list of shares!

  • @ErwinTeunissen
    @ErwinTeunissen 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are awesome! Please Keep doing this work! You make the world a little less horrible place.

  • @djbrettell
    @djbrettell 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Net-zero, give me a sec whilst I pick myself up off the floor.

  • @WeDeserveBetterNow
    @WeDeserveBetterNow 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's not quite this simple though. Chevron and BP have invested significant money (albeit, not enough) in clean energy projects like the Eavor loop. I think the focus needs to be on pressuring them to do more good things and fewer bad things with their money and influence.

    • @MaxVliet
      @MaxVliet 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      BP invested $10 million in Eavor, which for a company that turned over $230 BILLION last year is not a significant amount of money by any stretch of the imagination. They spent $211 million to rebrand themselves from BP to bp (uncapitalised letters) in order to appear friendlier, greener, and less threatening... They are a company that clearly cares more about appearing good than doing the right thing. IMO the focus needs to be on forcing these companies to do better through legislation because they sure as hell aren't going to do it on their own.

  • @karlgillott
    @karlgillott 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video, and very good advice - thank you.

  • @timclarke68
    @timclarke68 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "it'd be very easy for me to pile onto them, so lets do that" LOL

  • @LadAussie
    @LadAussie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cheers Dave! "Future Energy" is a good option for Aussie Super.

  • @vanessamuller1703
    @vanessamuller1703 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for the Video!

  • @cesardeleon3856
    @cesardeleon3856 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gracias

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis2663 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Cigarettes 🚬 are paying me for having to put up with smokers. 😅