Many companies claim to be or reach carbon neutrality 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 comes often with several misleading techniques & assumptions:

It misuses of the scientific definition of carbon neutrality while not reducing emissions, clearing the company of its responsibilities by croping 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 the human CO2 emissions keep increasing, human CO2 removals are insignificant. Reaching carbon neutrality demands to:

• Reduce very fast and drastically the emissions,
• Develop at very large scale human CO2 removals.

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

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