Would you like a burger with a side of climate cult?
Wendy’s commits to ‘ambitious’ climate change goals
The Wendy’s Co. has announced targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 47% across its system, including company operations, franchisees and top suppliers, by 2030 through new science-based targets.
The Dublin, Ohio-based burger brand announced near-term targets to reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and said the goals were recently approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
Wendy’s estimated that achieving the goal would avoid about 7.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent compared to business as usual, which is equal to removing more than 1.5 million gas-powered vehicles from the road in a single year.
“We recognize our role in using resources and energy, and we continue to prioritize delivering more to our customers with a smaller environmental footprint,” said Liliana Esposito, chief corporate affairs and sustainability office, in a statement.
“With our newly validated science-based targets,” Esposito said, “we have completed our climate roadmap nearly a year ahead of schedule, accelerating our journey to mitigate our climate impact.”
It’s going to cost more to eat at Wendy’s, because they will pass on the increased costs to consumers. Or, perhaps, reduce the number of employees will implementing more robots and ordering screens
In setting its Scope 3 science-based targets, Wendy’s identified two areas of focus for emissions reductions: purchased goods and franchised restaurants.
Purchased goods, such as food and packaging, represent nearly 85% of the system’s Scope 3 emissions, while Wendy’s more than 6,500 franchised restaurants contribute approximately 10% of Scope 3 emissions.
They seem to have extremely vague goals (see the article), but, really, they’ll most likely just be greenwashing, especially the franchised stores, who won’t want to spend all sorts of extra money to comply with this idiocy, nor rely on expensive, unreliable solar and wind. And, come on, have you seen their menu? It’s heavy on meat, frostys, and fries. Good grief, there is a burger with a bug hunk of fried cheese and pasta sauce on it. Lots of bacon, beef, chicken. How long will this cult madness go on?
Teach is very excited about this especially the costs going up
Previously he earned us extensively about the down fall of Western Civilization if McDs had to pay a $15 minimum RESTAURANTS WOULD BE Forced TO CLOSE!!
Profits might be reduced.
The elites owning McDs would suffer
Good Grief!! Teach get a grip.
Elites don’t own McDonalds, entrepreneurs do. BTW, they still don’t pay $15 ph and are steadily replacing workers with tech. But that’s what you want, right? More people dependent on the dole.
You rich left coasters are evil.
John-with you being so scared of the CO2 molecule, can you tell us what positive effects Wendy’s action might have? If you can’t tell us, maybe it’s you who should get a grip..
Looks like a way to hide the impending price increases.
Just Close. Problem solved.
Alas! The weather returned to much closer to normal today, high only 51º F, but that’s still a couple of degrees above the average.
Got the electric bills for both our farm and our rental property today; because of the warmer than average weather, both were lower than the same time last year. I love
global warmingclimate change!Same here in America’s heartland where it’s 25ºF this AM, although by Wed a high of 71ºF is expected. In “cruel” February!!
We should adjust and adapt to global warming as it’s here for our durations…
I was on a videoconference yesterday with a professor in Dallas who said they had been shut down for three days because of the ice storm. 100ºF+ in summer, ice storms in winter.
So, what about Burger King, and its “flame-broiled burgers”? The fast-food restaurants can always have electric griddles, I suppose, but this would be a major change for Burger King.
Asian restaurants are really complaining, because cooking with a wok just doesn’t work on an electric range.
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Mr Teach whines incessantly that “warmists” never sacrifice to help solve global warming, then he whines when they do.
Yes, the fact that’s it’s cold proves the world is warming..
I’ll give you my Whopper when you can pry it from my cold, dead hands!!
Teach: Or, perhaps, reduce the number of employees will(?) implementing more robots and ordering screens.
517,000 new jobs last month.
Remember a little over 100 years ago when the horseless carriages supplanted the tried-and-true horse-drawn wagons? And the brouhaha as the so-called “environmentalists” wanted men to clean up after the horses – little knowing that the crap expelled from the back end of the horseless carriages was going to be worse 100 years hence??
Yes, we remember. But we also remember there were no government mandates needed to force the switch to horseless carriages.
Amazingly, citizens were able to choose on their own…the horror…