据油价网2023年6月15日报道，沙特阿美和其他15家沙特和国际公司日前在有史以来规模最大的自愿碳信用额度拍卖中购买了220多万吨碳信用额度。

区域自愿碳市场公司(RVCMC)是此次在肯尼亚举行拍卖的组织者，该公司于去年年底由沙特阿拉伯主权财富基金公共投资基金(PIF)沙特塔达乌尔集团控股公司发起。

RVCMC表示，在此次拍卖中，全球最大的石油公司沙特阿美、沙特电力公司和NEOM的子公司ENOWA购买了数量最多的碳信用额度。

拍卖中的一揽子碳信用额度包括18个项目，代表了二氧化碳消除，包括改进清洁炉灶和可再生能源项目等项目。四分之三的碳信用额度来自中东、北非和撒哈拉以南非洲国家，包括肯尼亚、乌干达、布隆迪、卢旺达、摩洛哥、埃及和南非。

RVCMC首席执行官Riham ElGizy表示：“我们的目标是到2030年前成为世界上最大的自愿碳市场之一，每年可以补偿数亿吨的碳排放，并为全球净零目标形成积极影响。”

沙特石油巨头沙特阿美在6月11日发布的2022年可持续发展报告中表示，去年沙特阿美与PIF签署了一份谅解备忘录(MoU)，以支持在利雅得建立区域自愿碳市场，并参加了首次拍卖。那次出售了140万吨碳信用额度，其中65万吨碳信用额度由沙特阿美购买。

麦肯锡表示，碳信用额度对所有行业的企业来说都是一项不断增长的业务，到2030年，这个市场的价值可能超过500亿美元。

然而，环保主义者抨击碳信用额度是在洗绿。绿色和平组织称，碳抵消是“洗绿的下一件大事”，并将碳市场称为“骗局”。  

“这是一种记账技巧，旨在掩盖破坏气候的排放。这是植树装点门面，旨在分散人们对生态系统破坏的注意力。”

李峻 编译自 油价网

原文如下：

Saudi Aramco Buys Carbon Credits At Largest-Ever Auction

Aramco and 15 other Saudi and international companies this week bought more than 2.2 million tons of carbon credits in the largest-ever voluntary carbon credit auction, the organizers of the auction said.

The Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Company (RVCMC), the organizer of the auction held in Kenya, was launched at the end of last year by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Saudi Tadawul Group Holding Company.

In the auction this week, Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil firm, purchased the largest number of credits, along with Saudi Electricity Company and ENOWA, a subsidiary of NEOM, the carbon market company said.

The basket of credits in the auction included 18 projects representing a mix of carbon dioxide (CO2) avoidance and removal, including projects such as improved clean cookstoves and renewable energy projects. Three-quarters of the carbon credits originated from countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Morocco, Egypt, and South Africa.

“Our aim is to be one of the largest voluntary carbon markets in the world by 2030, one that enables compensation of hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon emissions per year and contributes to global Net Zero goals,” said Riham ElGizy, Chief Executive Officer of RVCMC.

Last year, Aramco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PIF to support the establishment of the Regional Voluntary Carbon Market in Riyadh and participated in its inaugural auction, where 1.4 million carbon credits were sold, of which 650,000 were purchased by Aramco, the Saudi oil giant said in its 2022 Sustainability Report published on Thursday.

Carbon credits are a growing business for companies from all industries, and this market could be worth more than $50 billion in 2030, McKinsey has said.

Environmentalists, however, slam carbon credits as greenwashing. Carbon offsetting is “the next big thing in greenwashing,” Greenpeace has said, labeling the market as a “scam.”

“It’s a bookkeeping trick intended to obscure climate-wrecking emissions. It’s tree planting window dressing aimed at distracting from ecosystem destruction.”