The error, made in RWE’s annual submission to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), was picked up by a sharp-eyed researcher at London-based environmental-data company Trucost. It raises questions about the reliability of European greenhouse gas emissions statistics.
Senior research analyst Stefano Dell’Aringa tells Recharge that RWE misclassified 70 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO²) emissions, equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of Denmark.
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