ClaimsØrsted

“By 2020, our target is 100%.”

DONG Energy, annual report 2017 DONG Energy Annual report 2016 Summary (DONG Energy) archived copy

Promise Their own work or organisation

DONG Energy's target is that 100% of the biomass it buys will be certified as sustainable by 2020.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

What would count as true or false

Test: was 100% of the biomass bought by DONG Energy/Ørsted certified as sustainable in 2020? True: Ørsted's 2020 reporting shows 100% certified sustainable biomass; a figure that rounds to 100% (at least 99.5%) also counts. Mostly true: 100% was reported but with a minor scope caveat the claim did not depend on. Mostly false: a high share was certified but clearly short of 100%, for example 90–99.4%, or 100% was reached only after 2020. False: the share certified in 2020 was below 90%, or the target was dropped or postponed. The certification share must come from reported figures, not only from statements that the target was met.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (3)

  1. E1 Interim ESG report 9M 2020.pub Ørsted A/S · September 2020 Own record

    “Certified sustainable wooden biomass sourced % 100 (2020)”
  2. E2 Interim ESG report H1 2020 Ørsted A/S · June 2020 Own record

    “Certified renewable wooden biomass sourced % 100 (2020)”
  3. E3 Ørsted - ESG performance report 2020 Ørsted A/S · 2020 Own record

    “Certified sustainable wooden biomass sourced”

Reasoning

All three items are Ørsted's own 2020 ESG reports (E1, E2, E3), and each shows only the 100% (2020) target for certified sustainable wooden biomass, with no actual 2020 certification share in the extracted text. The criteria require a reported figure rather than a restated target. Because no reported share and no independent source is available, the evidence does not settle whether 100% was reached in 2020.

Cite this claim

Ørsted, “DONG Energy's target is that 100% of the biomass it buys will be certified as sustainable by 2020.” (said 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_dcf0dfde41cf, method 0.1.0+7831dd9d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_dcf0dfde41cf

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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