{"id":186306,"date":"2021-05-31T20:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=279931"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:37:43","slug":"bhp-carbon-accounting-good-for-executive-bonuses-not-for-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/31\/bhp-carbon-accounting-good-for-executive-bonuses-not-for-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"BHP carbon accounting good for executive bonuses, not for climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nw.shelf_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"BHP, North West Shelf, emissions\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nw.shelf_.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nw.shelf_-480x342.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>BHP counts all the carbon emissions from projects it operates but ignores the climate impact of its investments in projects managed by other companies. This is not a credible approach to climate change, writes Peter Milne, from independent energy and climate news site\u00a0Boiling Cold, as all owners have a say on the big decisions that affect emissions. Ignoring emissions is also great for executive bonuses.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/bhp-carbon-accounting-good-for-executive-bonuses-not-for-climate\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHP counts all the carbon emissions from projects it operates but ignores the climate impact of its investments in projects managed by other companies. This is not a credible approach to climate change, writes Peter Milne, from independent energy and c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186328,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186306\/revisions\/186328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}