EU launches action against 20 airlines for greenwashing

From that press release:

> Following an alert from the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), ...

That alert's from June last year and we do have a list of 17 from there. Not gonna say it's entirely accurate of course, but it's a good-enough approximation of the list:

> The airlines targeted by the action are Air Baltic, Air Dolomiti, Air France, Austrian, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Finnair, KLM, Lufthansa, Norwegian, Ryanair, SAS, Swiss, TAP, Volotea, Vueling and Wizz Air.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/06/klm-climate-claims-targeted... / https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/airlines-sued...

Nice, what we are missing is more random regulations and bureaucracy.

If you take a plane I think it's pretty obvious to anyone you are going to burn some carbon (a bathtub worth of fuel per passenger for a transatlantic flight if I remember). It's like eating Nutella directly off the bottle. The people who don't care won't read it, the ones who care already know.

Sounds nice and simple. But how do you actually calculate those numbers? What’s included? Are subcontractors or third parties counted? What if a single company uses some carbon asset in multiple product lines, is the cost divided up across the product lines based on their production ratio?

There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_biofuel#Sustainable_a... no point in trying to summarize a complex issue like this in a tiny HN comment.

I think you can read it as "any advertisement from any airline mentioning anything regarding the environmental, CO2 and carbon compensation".