Galaxus and climate contribution

I just ordered something from Galaxus, and as always, when buying on Galaxus, they propose to make a "climate contribution". I never actually checked what it was, and always thought it was legit.

There was actually a post some years ago about that: https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/w99xl8/on_digitec_you_can_pay_235_chf_extra_to/

Since then, there has been more news about South Pole, and more info about where the money is going. Galaxus generously take 10% of that contribution as "administrative fee"

Galaxus uses 10 per cent of the climate contributions to cover the costs of operating and developing this climate contribution service.

Plus, the company they're using to "offset" the CO2 is also taking a significant part of the contribution (they claim 10-30%, I think it's quite safe to assume it's more 30% than 10%).

And up to now, this company has been unable to prove any impact of its actions: https://www.nzz.ch/english/profit-over-planet-employees-urge-reform-at-worlds-major-climate-player-south-pole-ld.1747330

From the employees of the company:

«The message to the public is that the company wants to achieve real CO2 savings for everyone and create more transparency in the CO2 market.»

However, there is less and less evidence of this in the company's strategy and in its day-to-day business, according to the letter. Instead, it says, the company puts profit above its founding principles.

Also an interesting quote from The New Yorker:

One founder of the carbon firm South Pole resigned after developing doubts about offsetting. “It’s just paper credits,” he said.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/the-great-cash-for-carbon-hustle

Note also that their picture is misleading, as it claims 70-90% goes to the project, hiding that Galaxus takes its 10% share before anything else. On a 100CHF contribution, Galaxus first takes 10CHF, sends 90CHF south Pole, which likely takes 27CHF on that (the max in their 10-30% range), leaving 63CHF to the project. So about 37% of the contribution goes as admin profit, and 63% to the actual project. And on top of that, the projects have shown to be mostly worthless.

Don't waste your money, always disable that contribution, it has no impact. If Galaxus really wanted to do anything about climate, they would at least waive their admin fee (and also stop stuffing loads of plastic in oversized boxes)