The Danish Consumer Council Think is now attacking Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen (V) for calling a new domestic flight route between Aalborg and Copenhagen "green".
The criticism comes after the airline Norwegian officially won the tender for the first green domestic route on Wednesday, where all flights will use at least 40 percent green fuel.
But that is not enough to qualify the flight route as green. In fact, it is greenwashing, says Vibeke Myrtue Jensen, political advisor in the aviation and environmental area at the Danish Consumer Council Think, to Radio IIII.
- Now it is the Consumer Ombudsman who must decide on this, but we would call it greenwashing, she states and elaborates:
- We believe that the word "green" poses a great risk of misleading marketing. If you use the word, you must be among the very best. And there may be doubts as to whether you are with this fuel. Partly, it is 40 percent that is the case. But there is also a lot of discussion about whether this is even green or sustainable, she says.
Vibeke Myrtue Jensen does not believe that air routes could ever be fully called "green".
- In that case, you would have to be able to document that this 'juice' was green. And I'm not sure you could. And right now it's only 40 percent, which doesn't really add up. There's still 60 percent fossil fuel left, and in our opinion that doesn't make for a green route, says Vibeke Myrtue Jensen.
Radio IIII has tried to get a comment from Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen, but it hasn't yet been possible. However, Thomas Danielsen has previously rejected similar criticism from several climate advocates.
"We fly as legally as the police allow, so to speak," was the response from the minister.
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