Many companies claim to have reached carbon neutrality or to be close to doing so in the future:

On their products & services: AirFrance full activity flights, L'Oréal carbon neutral industrial sites, Volkswagen and Google carbon neutrality on all activities.

Individually or at their scale, economic actors, communities and citizens are not, nor can they become, or claim to be carbon neutral"

Carbon neutrality claims often come with several misleading techniques & assumptions:

They misuse the scientific definition of carbon neutrality while not reducing emissions, clearing the company of its responsibilities by cropping them, misusing carbon accounting and assuming unrealistic carbon capture capacities.

Carbon neutrality is to be applied only at a planetary scale: it is achieved when human CO2 removals balance human CO2 emissions at the global scale.

While human CO2 emissions keep increasing, human CO2 removals are insignificant. Reaching carbon neutrality requires us to:

• Reduce emissions very quickly and drastically,
• Develop human CO2 removals at a very large scale .

Splitting the CO2 emissions from the usage of a product or service amongst people and companies is an arbitrary decision.

Splitting the CO2 emissions from the manufacture of a product amongst the companies in a value chain is an arbitrary decision.