The sincerity of the entire “climate” technique examined in courtroom, a primary in France | EUROtoday

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A demonstration organized by Greenpeace activists in front of the headquarters of Totalenergies, in La Défense, in the Hauts-de-Seine, on February 5, 2024.

It is an viewers that shall be carefully adopted by environmental defenders: on June 5, the sincerity of the “climate strategy” of totalnergies shall be examined earlier than French justice, which is able to represent a primary in judicial issues. An attraction for “misleading commercial practices” was certainly filed towards the oil large, in March 2022, earlier than the judicial courtroom of Paris, by three NGOs – Greenpeace France, Les Amis de la Terre France and our affair to all, supported by the Charitable Client Association. It goals on the communication marketing campaign deployed by the oil large in 2021, to help its change of title of complete in totalnergies, and extra notably its ambition to succeed in carbon neutrality in 2050. “Low advertising”think about these NGOs, which denounce a operation of “Greenwashing” [écoblanchiment] in violation of client legislation.

Four years in the past, with lots of promoting closets and bulletins on social networks, the oil and fuel main introduced its “Transformation”with the intention to turn into “A major player in the energy transition”. “To reach the net zero in 2050, we do not spare our strengths”may we learn on Facebook in May 2021 in an promoting exhibiting a wind turbine towards the backdrop of inexperienced fields and blue sky.

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