Green Connection, Fishers vs TotalEnergies AUSEA Technology?

According to TotalCriminal organisation, the warnings issued by the IPCC and the International Energy Agency are clear: all new fossil fuel projects must be abandoned immediately. However, TotalEnergies’ executives continue to trample international scientific recommendations and persist in developing its hydrocarbon production.

The Green Connection and small-scale fishers from South Africa are in Paris, France, to support French NGOs and climate change victims as they file a criminal case against TotalEnergies’ board of directors and shareholders. They are taking action for “their contribution to climate change and its fatal impact on human and non-human lives.”

One voice by all plaintiffs

With just two days to TotalEnergies’ Annual General Meeting, the organisations hope that “this legal action could “set a precedent in the history of climate litigation as it opens the way to holding fossil fuel producers and shareholders responsible, before criminal courts, for the chaos caused by climate change.”

The Green Connection’s Advocacy Officer, Lisa Makaula says, “We are here in Paris to call on TotalEnergies to move away from fossil fuels, now. The company has many project proposals in various stages in South Africa, even though climate reports emphasize that there is no need for any new investments in oil and gas as there already is enough available and in the process of being dug up. According to an International Energy Agency report, starting new projects now, will only lead to stranded assets, in the near future. This is why we are here, in Paris France, to call onto this company to stop these projects that could possibly lead to environmental degradation and come at the cost of people’s livelihoods. We call on them to immediately shift their money into projects that are exclusively focus on sustainable development and going to build the economy.”