Woodside and Santos share greenwashing headaches
Beyond pursuing a potential $80 billion corporate merger, Woodside and Santos could well also compare notes on defending claims of greenwashing.
Woodside and Santos will be able to compare notes on fighting greenwashing lawsuits if the pair go ahead with their mooted merger.
Greenpeace filed a federal court action against Woodside late on Wednesday alleging it of misleading and deceptive conduct over the way it communicated its progress towards net zero emissions in its 2022 climate report.
Woodside said it had reduced its emissions by 11% in the report. However that figure is net of carbon offsets, without which its absolute emissions would have increased by 3.5%, Greenpeace said.
“Woodside has made the representation that its climate emission reduction targets are consistent with the goals of the Paris agreement and the most recent climate science," Greenpeace general counsel Katrina Bullock told reporters on Thursday.
