Commission d’enquête du Sénat sur TotalEnergies : réaction des associations écologistes

A coalition of environmental organizations, including Greenpeace and Reclaim Finance, responded to the French Senate's inquiry into TotalEnergies. While they welcome the report's critical assessment of TotalEnergies' "climaticide" strategy and its expansion of fossil fuels, they argue that the 33 recommendations lack the binding measures necessary to align the company with the Paris Agreement. The associations specifically criticize the absence of super-profit taxation and the perceived weakness of the French state in regulating the multinational.

• The associations support the report's severe diagnosis of TotalEnergies' strategy, which they describe as "climaticide" and an accelerator of the climate crisis, particularly due to the company's efforts to increase hydrocarbon production and liquefied natural gas (LNG) activities.
• The coalition criticizes the 33 recommendations in the report for lacking ambition and binding measures to force TotalEnergies to comply with the Paris Agreement, noting that the right-wing senatorial majority worked to reduce the level of ambition.
• The associations highlight a failure of the French state to regulate TotalEnergies, pointing to the "porosity" of links between company executives and state machinery, as well as the support of French diplomacy for the company's international strategy.
• Specific omissions in the report are criticized, most notably the failure to propose the taxation of "indecent" super-profits from the oil and gas industry, which could have addressed energy poverty in France.
• The organizations identify specific positive recommendations, such as stopping Russian LNG imports at French and European levels and halting hydrocarbon projects in Azerbaijan, though they note the report ignored human rights violations related to the EACOP project in Uganda.
• The report is criticized for its timid approach to financial regulation, failing to mandate that all French financial actors stop supporting conventional bonds for the oil and gas sector, despite precedents set by BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole.

APA

Ifticène, E., Ripoll, J., Fettih, S., Febvre, G., & Renaud, J. (2024). Commission d’enquête du Sénat sur TotalEnergies : réaction des associations écologistes. Reclaim Finance. https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2024/06/19/commission-denquete-du-senat-sur-totalenergies-reaction-des-associations-ecologistes/

Chicago

Ifticène, Edina, Justine Ripoll, Soraya Fettih, Gaïa Febvre, and Juliette Renaud. Commission d’enquête du Sénat sur TotalEnergies : réaction des associations écologistes. Reclaim Finance, 2024. https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2024/06/19/commission-denquete-du-senat-sur-totalenergies-reaction-des-associations-ecologistes/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{ifticne2024commission, author = {Ifticène, Edina and Ripoll, Justine and Fettih, Soraya and Febvre, Gaïa and Renaud, Juliette}, title = {{Commission d’enquête du Sénat sur TotalEnergies : réaction des associations écologistes}}, publisher = {Reclaim Finance}, year = {2024}, month = jun, url = {https://reclaimfinance.org/site/2024/06/19/commission-denquete-du-senat-sur-totalenergies-reaction-des-associations-ecologistes/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }