H&M Head of Sustainability ‘concerned’ about expanding carbon offset use within SBTi
“The decision weakens corporate climate pledges and makes real decarbonisation efforts within value chains less attractive.”
H&M’s Head of Sustainability Leyla Ertur has expressed concern over the potential expansion of carbon offset use for Scope 3 decarbonisation and urged the SBTi to focus on GHG reductions.
In a letter addressed to the SBTi Board of Trustees, Ertur highlights “two main concerns” with its controversial April statement, which suggested that carbon offsetting could potentially be allowed “beyond the current limits” of 10% of a company’s overall footprint (with the remaining 90% having to be reduced).
