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Aftonbladet has been able to reveal how the hamburger chain Max climate compensation leads to hunger in Uganda.
Now the review is provoking reactions from the political side.
– It is completely unacceptable, says MP parliamentarian Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP).
The hamburger chain Max promises that they will climate compensate for their food and in recent years has bought hundreds of thousands of carbon dioxide credits from a tree planting project in Uganda.
But Aftonbladet’s review shows that the project that was supposed to fight poverty has had the opposite effect and instead led to food shortages and felled trees.
The review also arouses reactions from politicians.
– It is completely unacceptable that poor people find themselves in a pinch at the same time if the promised reduction in emissions has not materialized. It is also too damning that consumers in Sweden, who think they are contributing to something good, are deceived in this way, says the Green Party’s EU parliamentarian Alice Bah Kuhnke to Aftonbladet.
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full screenAlice Bah Kuhnke (MP). Photo: Magnus Wennman
“Must change”
Even the Left Party’s EU candidate Jonas Sjöstedt reacts and says in a comment that the disclosure shows how important it is that emissions are reduced where they are caused and not somewhere else where it is difficult to control.
“Unfortunately, a large part of the government’s climate policy is also based on reducing emissions in the future and elsewhere, that does not hold. At the same time, those emissions are increasing in Sweden. We need to phase out fossil fuels and food production also needs to change,” writes Jonas Sjöstedt in a comment.
Furthermore, Alice Bah Kuhnke says:
– Climate compensation must never become a pretext for continued emissions. We are in the middle of an escalating climate crisis, then strong emissions reductions are needed for real, not numbers bingo where the poor suffer, consumers are misled and emissions remain, says Alice Bah Kuhnke.
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full screen Jonas Sjöstedt (V). Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT / TT News Agency
The company’s response
Max offsets the climate through the company Zeromission, which also sells carbon dioxide credits to other Swedish companies.
The hamburger chain writes in a comment to Aftonbladet that “they take these claims very seriously”.
“If the follow-up shows that there are irregularities, we will act forcefully, wrote Kaj Török in a comment.
Zeromission said they have not received any signals about the tree planting project in Uganda. Then backed them.
– We have received indications, says Henrik Juhlin.
Aftonbladet has searched for climate minister Romina Pourmokhtari without success.