A Paris court has ordered French oil giant TotalEnergies to report the environmental consequences of emissions from its oil and gas products and explain how it plans to address them.
The ruling stems from a civil case brought by NGOs and French cities demanding that the company align its business with global warming targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Total is facing a number of other lawsuits. A new case involves claims from NGOs and Ugandan residents over land and rights violations related to a drilling project in Tilenga.
Called a “carbon bomb” by critics, the project includes drilling more than 400 wells in Tilenga and around 30 in Kingfisher.
It’s also linked to the colossal East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to Tanzania’s port of Tanga, almost 1,500 kilometers away.
